Example sentences of "she [adv] [vb past] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her own health by that time was not of the best and she latterly resided in Dalnair House , Croftamie , where she was well cared for . |
| 2 | Evelyn smiled , something she rarely did in Newman 's experience of her , brief though it might be . |
| 3 | Until the death of her sister , the Duchess of Alba , in 1860 , Eugénie would herself occasionally waltz with her husband at these ‘ Mondays ’ , but from 1860 onwards she rarely danced in public except as a duty . |
| 4 | Indeed , Leonard can only recall a volume of the Russian writer Gogol on her shelf , by which she presumably kept in touch with her own more distant — if painful — affiliations , though influencing Leonard , perhaps , unconsciously , with Gogol 's sense of fantasy and comic genius — as well as his need to travel . ) |
| 5 | There were even rumours that her condition would force her withdrawal , but such scares proved unfounded and she duly arrived in the paddock . |
| 6 | In more or less timeless modern dress , the duel between the Christian knight Tancred and his former Saracen girlfriend Clorinda , she metaphorically encased in cap-a-pie armour is described by the narrator but enacted unseen behind a sofa . |
| 7 | She mostly lived in the country and she was rich . |
| 8 | She eventually fell in love with a lawyer , but her father objected to this match . |
| 9 | After her separation from Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1784 , she eventually settled in Florence with her tame poet , Alfieri , who possibly became her second husband . |
| 10 | Finding that Mary Read was totally in control of all work out there , she swiftly gave in her notice . |
| 11 | Forever on the move , meeting new faces , constantly in demand socially whenever she was off duty , Liza Tremayne found that there were longer and longer periods between the days when she still suffered black despair over the thought that she would never again see the man she so resembled in character and who had given her , had she known it , more love than he had ever bestowed upon any other woman . |
| 12 | She suddenly felt in a great hurry to escape , instinctively disliking this pretty , richly-dressed young American . |
| 13 | A minute or so earlier she might have burst out laughing again at what she considered was an ‘ over the top ’ compliment but — and she owned that seeing Ven Gajdusek was to blame — she suddenly felt in a laughing mood no longer . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've sometimes thought she was perhaps my mother , ’ she suddenly said in a rush and then paused , turning the statement into a question . |
| 15 | ‘ They have a leprechaun hunt ! ’ she suddenly exclaimed in delight . |
| 16 | Katherine Colgrave 's lawyers claim she only discovered in 1984 that she may have escaped disability if she 'd been correctly diagnosed and treated soon after birth . |
| 17 | She suddenly recollected that she was now the wife of the director of a large company , and drew herself up with what she hoped was some dignity ; but she only succeeded in looking more than ever like a pouter pigeon . |
| 18 | Every time she vowed to get closer to Matthew , she only succeeded in driving him further away . |
| 19 | At six o'clock the next morning she finally fell in front of the door of the workhouse , and the people there took her in . |
| 20 | At midnight , twenty-four hours after leaving Calais , she finally arrived in Milan where she had to change trains . |
| 21 | She soon fell in love with someone else , also about nine years older than herself , who seemed very keen and wanted to marry her . |
| 22 | He heard the Direktor calling them back to work again , and he crossed to Ingrid who was nervously studying her score , her lips moving as yet again she went over the part she already knew in minute detail . |
| 23 | She would not ask for any further exchange of nuclear information , but she must be released from her obligation not to use the knowledge she already possessed in seeking collaboration with other partners . |
| 24 | She generally lived in a room next to the church , which had a window in the wall through which she could watch the Mass and receive the sacraments . |
| 25 | They just started getting mad with her and chucking wooden dice that size at her , trying to hit her , and blackboard rubbers , smashing up the lightbulbs and everything , and in the end she just went in the store-cupboard , crying , so we locked her in . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Ca n't or wo n't ? ’ he queried grimly , but she just shrugged in defeat . |
| 27 | But she just spat in his face and went out , slamming the door so hard that a picture of herself fell off the wall . |
| 28 | ‘ She tackled everything with gusto — she just crammed in everything . |
| 29 | For a long time , she just stood in front of the box , petrified . |
| 30 | She scarcely took in the bloody mass that was a face . |