Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd liked hospital life ; it was real . |
| 2 | Much as she 'd liked Josh , she could n't be sure Marianne was n't right — and if Dane could let her down , then why should n't his playwright friend ? |
| 3 | She 'd liked Harriet . |
| 4 | She 'd liked men — of course she had — but for some reason or another it had never deepened into anything else . |
| 5 | She 'd survived 'til then , then things happened . |
| 6 | She 'd survived years of William Ash 's treatment of her , grown strong on her own . |
| 7 | True , she 'd escaped Fincara , but Fincara would only have bewitched her , not killed her . |
| 8 | She 'd saved Blazer from slaughter . |
| 9 | And maybe some toast , since she 'd missed dinner . |
| 10 | If she 'd said Carolyn had borrowed a book from Clare and wanted to return it , they 'd have given her the address . |
| 11 | Then she 'd contacted Templeton 's , at John 's suggestion , and struck lucky . |
| 12 | ‘ You were always such a capable child , ’ Mrs Everett replied cheerfully , having absolutely no idea , Leith knew , of the times she 'd kept childhood and then adolescent worries to herself on account of Sebastian 's suffering either catastrophe or crisis at the same time . |
| 13 | She put on a great act , pretending to be heartbroken and begging for a chance to restart our relationship , but shortly after she 'd gained access to the apartment there was a phone call . |
| 14 | Even if she 'd dabbed Mummy 's eyes and wiped her brow with a hanky soaked in cologne . |
| 15 | It was obvious she 'd reached breaking-point . |
| 16 | She had no one but herself to blame if she 'd fallen hook , line and sinker in love . |
| 17 | She hid it away behind a bright , brittle insouciance which plainly worried Elise to death , but for several nights wept silently into her pillow , utterly shattered to find she 'd wanted Penry 's child quite desperately without even realising it . |
| 18 | Her eyes swept across his face , and suddenly she had the almost overwhelming desire to tell him that it was n't important at all , that she was , inside , what he 'd called a real woman , one who wanted a home and children to fill it , and most of all a husband , a man who would take her in his arms and kiss her until nothing mattered except him , kiss her as Nicolo had , make her want him as she 'd wanted Nicolo … |
| 19 | She 'd hoped Bernard would grow up to be a priest : now he 'd taken up with a woman . |
| 20 | She 'd hoped Katarina would marry Lucenzo . |
| 21 | She had noticed before that the man whom she 'd dubbed Cousin Naylor had a penchant for answering only such queries as he considered he would . |
| 22 | I expected a slap but Mrs Bullivant just stepped over us saying she 'd be back later , after she 'd attended Mrs Groves who was having her first . |
| 23 | Dot remembered one of the things she 'd overheard Mrs Hollidaye telling Gloria just before Loopy Lil crashed the tray . |
| 24 | He had even held the receiver out in Folly 's direction , but she 'd blushed crimson with embarrassment and pushed it away . |
| 25 | It was early one evening , coming out of the Empire in Leicester Square with a head full of Harrison Ford , that she 'd seen Gary again . |
| 26 | As a doctor she 'd seen others like it before . |
| 27 | Nobody would believe her when she told them she 'd seen Mrs Sugar . |
| 28 | " Nobody would believe her when she told them she 'd seen Mrs Sugar , " How do you think the conversation went ? |
| 29 | Daryl remembered something your mother had told her in a letter a week or two before , she said that she 'd met Sally Hopes mother and had liked her and she said to that she 'd seen Mrs Hopes baby . |
| 30 | She 'd seen Naylor furious before , had n't she ? |