Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So intent was she on making a good impression , she failed to see a crane coming towards her . |
| 2 | She failed to smother a yawn and he apologized , saying : ‘ Go on up , I should n't be detaining you . |
| 3 | She failed to find a donor in time to save Anthony , who died , aged just seven , but since then the register has helped to save hundreds of lives and continues to provide a vital service . |
| 4 | She failed to win a coveted Emmy award for her show Roseanne , America 's most-watched sitcom over the past three years . |
| 5 | She participated in the founding of the League of Nations and was on the Council , though she failed to get a racial equality clause inserted in the League 's charter . |
| 6 | When Psyche lighted the lamp , she expected to see a beast , but she saw a god . |
| 7 | He smiled back at his mother in gratitude , but when she made to put a consoling arm around his shoulders he moved aside . |
| 8 | She needed distance between them as she fought to smother a treacherous joy that he should think her beautiful . |
| 9 | She planned to wed a lord , then poison him . |
| 10 | The wife was told that the only asset available to her was the matrimonial home and she agreed to take a lump sum of £12,600 with £2,473 maintenance for the two children . |
| 11 | The prison doctor refused unless she agreed to drink a cup of tea and eat a piece of bread and butter . |
| 12 | She agreed to try a behaviour chart and identified that each of them should sit in their own chairs , eat their own food quietly , and not interfere with each other . |
| 13 | Diana has been patron of Relate since 1989 , when she agreed to head a campaign to save marriages and promote traditional family life . |
| 14 | With a certain reluctance she agreed to have a further examination , and tests were taken from the cervix and urethra . |
| 15 | She got to see a grizzly bear , skunks and chipmunks . |
| 16 | ‘ She got married a week ago and went off with her husband . ’ |
| 17 | Joan Daniels joined a Medau class at Blackheath in 1956 and started teacher training in 1961 , which she interrupted to have a family , two sons and a daughter before qualifying in 1969 . |
| 18 | She bent to avoid a thrown object . |
| 19 | In 1900 she helped to found a hostel at Littlehampton for working girls ' holidays . |
| 20 | In Ethiopia she helped to found a Social Service Society and edited a monthly periodical , the Ethiopia Observer . |
| 21 | Later she helped to run a girls ' club in Whitechapel . |
| 22 | She helped to produce a sketch of her assailant and as a result of its publication , another woman told police that he was the same man who had attacked her the day before . |
| 23 | Claire was delighted at the improvement She tried drinking a glass of milk , to see what would happen , and 24 hours later Jamie , following a feed , suffered , a severe attack of colic . |
| 24 | In the bedroom , afterwards , she tried to couch a question which would probe some of the doubts she had , without alerting Jessica to the fact she had them . |
| 25 | DEVOTED housekeeper Annie Bowman was crushed to death as she tried to stop a thief stealing her boss 's JCB digger . |
| 26 | A nurse has been knocked down and seriously injured by her own car after she tried to stop a man stealing it . |
| 27 | She tried to take a step , but the suit would n't respond to her commands . |
| 28 | On her way to her desk she tried to collect a beaker of iced water but the machine was empty and a knot of querulous men were standing around it demanding something be done . |
| 29 | She tried to suppress a laugh but a brief honk came through . |
| 30 | A pensioner is in hospital with serious burns after her house exploded as she tried to light a gas fire . |