Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The power she experienced descending upon her had its value in ‘ the sensible and constant direction of the Spirit of God in men ’ . |
| 2 | Staphylococcus aureus was isolated from her sputum but she failed to respond to antibiotics , so a fibreoptic bronchoscopy was performed . |
| 3 | ANC sources said the funds of the ANC Department of Social Welfare , which she heads , had been frozen on the orders of the movement 's treasurer-general after she failed to account for more than 400,000 Rand ( £80,000 ) that is missing . |
| 4 | When she failed to return from work the next day he called the police . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you listening to me ? ’ he demanded when she failed to laugh at the right point . |
| 6 | There was further antagonism when she failed to get into Leeds Polytechnic but wanted to be with Gedge so much that she still moved to Leeds anyway . |
| 7 | Almost all her errors here were regularisations : for example , she read have as if it rhymed with ‘ cave ’ , lose as if it rhymed with ‘ hose ’ , own as if it rhymed with ‘ down ’ , and steak as if it rhymed with ‘ beak ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ ACCESS HATCH ’ , she read embossed into a transparent panel , and , in smaller letters underneath , ‘ IN EMERGENCY , ENTER CODE 398 . ’ |
| 9 | Two years later she applied to nurse in the Boer War and died from typhoid fever at Simonstown , aged 37 . |
| 10 | A baby was the last thing she expected to see in the servants ' quarters , especially as Rosa looked far beyond her child-bearing years . |
| 11 | Always a sickly woman , she expected to die in 1855 after a doctor had pronounced a disease of the heart to be fatal and quickly wrote her autobiography . |
| 12 | From New Year 's Day onwards , the whole of 1849 , the last year she expected to spend in England , was to Ruth simply a period of temporising ; of waiting , though seldom patiently , for the only event which had come to mean anything . |
| 13 | Imagine , she expected to live with us ! ’ |
| 14 | Then at 3am she smelled burning in the sitting room and opened the door to get the smoke out before waking her husband . |
| 15 | She made do with Kleenex and blotted the black mascara off her face . |
| 16 | Instead she made do with a holiday in Cornwall with the kids . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , if that 's how you feel , I wo n't trouble you any further , ’ said Emily , and she made to push past him . |
| 18 | Of course I got nowhere and she found out all she cared to know about me ( though not about my friends ) . |
| 19 | Maura was more like her brothers than she cared to think about . |
| 20 | The symptoms she endured varied from month to month , worsening or improving according to the circumstances of her life at the time . |
| 21 | When Elizabeth returned to England she talked of how she planned to go to South Africa to see if her future was there with Mr Cronje . |
| 22 | She met him emerging from their tall block of apartments as she was returning from work on the Friday evening , having stopped to buy groceries on the way home , her mind flying ahead to Luke 's arrival and all that she planned to say to him now that she had made up her mind to end their affair . |
| 23 | However , this morning Beth Christie was brighter than usual ; she planned to shop for the dinner party she was holding later in the week . |
| 24 | Along with a Chinese freelance photographer , Cavell had called for her that morning and whisked her round some of Taipei 's famous landmarks , the all-marble Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial , a colourful Buddhist temple , and the Grand Hotel with its magnificent Chinese architecture , pausing only long enough at each for the young man to take the photos that would help introduce Maria to the Taipei public , before escorting her back to the apartment and approving the outfit she planned to wear to the dinner the radio station was hosting for the rest of the local media that night . |
| 25 | Or what she planned to do about it when she found out . |
| 26 | She did n't officially begin her regular duties until Monday , which she planned to start with a meeting of all available personnel at the station , but between them she , Cavell and Penny Seu Chen had managed to fill up most of Sunday with their planning . |
| 27 | I did n't know she planned to breed from her but er she must . |
| 28 | Speaking in the bar of a five-star hotel in Marbella , Yasmin Gibson , a bit-part actress , said that even though her daughter Gemma was now in the care of the local authority , she planned to stay on the Costa del Sol until the end of her holiday in two weeks . |
| 29 | She planned to stay for a couple of days in the Arts Club in Edinburgh , as she belonged to a London club that had a reciprocal arrangement . |
| 30 | She planned to hide in there until the seeker had gone . |