Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When Leith took time off from being absolutely furious with Naylor Massingham and his high-handed behaviour , though , she experienced odd moments of wanting to tell him openly that she was not , and never had been , romantically interested in his cousin .
2 She experienced changeable moods and panic attacks — she had n't been on holiday for 20 years and could n't even go out to dinner for fear of not being able to get away .
3 It may be necessary to enquire how far her lust was excited , or if she experienced any enjoyment .
4 A central plank of her mitigation , after she admitted 17 charges of theft and deception , had been that every penny had been spent .
5 Instead she admitted four charges of making menacing telephone calls and a further charge of making calls causing annoyance or needless anxiety , all in February .
6 She admitted four charges of making a false representation to obtain benefit and asked for 18 others to be taken into consideration .
7 A WOMAN was fined £231 with £30 costs yesterday after she admitted fraudulent use of a car tax disc .
8 She sat in the opposite chair while Lucy put a record on ; she flung one leg across the other knee , rolled a cigarette and contained the volcano surging from her clitoris to tight silent lips .
9 Ronni wondered , as she flung some T-shirts and things into a bag , if she ought to have put up a stronger fight against Guido .
10 Self-confidence had not been part of her education so , despite her brief period of employment at de Levantiére 's , she felt insecure and nervous when she met new people .
11 She met each centre 's general SVQ co-ordinator and members of the course teams delivering general SVQ and Skillstart programmes .
12 But Harriet 's tears were eased at Bodelwyddan when she met Huggy Bear , the mascot of Clwyd 's Playsafe campaign .
13 Later she met other trainees .
14 She met political leaders in Bonn , walked through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin , met citizens in Leipzig , and attended a service of reconciliation in Dresden , which was destroyed by allied bombing on Feb. 13 , 1945 .
15 In Lille last night , Diana was radiant as she met former Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife Linda before a performance of his Liverpool Oratoria .
16 She underwent a lumpectomy and then a course of radiotherapy , and was due to start drug treatment when she met another cancer patient .
17 She met another man she knew and was dancing with him when Antonio discovered her , whereupon he was heard by onlookers to curse the moon for trusting in his fiancée 's purity .
18 She met some guy in there that day , some guy she used to go with , and he must 've said something because the next thing anyone knew , she was screaming at him , Pete was in the bar the morning after , he said the window was all over the floor , apparently she 'd thrown an ashtray at the guy and it had missed and taken the whole window out instead , and when he took her by the arm and tried to calm her down , she shook him off and ran out of the bar , right out in the street , and like I said , it was the bottom of a hill and there was a truck coming — ‘
19 ‘ I 'm so glad it was you she met twenty years ago , ’ said Juliet , as she shook Shirley 's hand .
20 SHE MET THIS BLOKE ON HOLIDAY IN SPAIN — HER FIRST BOYFRIEND .
21 That is what the governor of that offenders centre had to say , and I should be very interested to know what the Minister of State has done since she read that report in the newspaper .
22 Mrs Shephard , 52 , a former inspector of schools and senior education officer , has always joked that nothing could have prepared her more for being thrown into the deep end than leaving Cromer , where her father was a cattle dealer , for St Hilda 's College , Oxford , where she read modern languages .
23 She read interior design magazines , browsed for hours in department stores comparing the textures and colours of fabrics .
24 She read Victorian novels and studied textbooks of anatomy .
25 She read some verses and not others , understood some lines and not others , and stopped at every mention of angels or children or weeping or suffering .
26 This writing was discovered by her ; she read some material before her visit , which prepared her a little for what she would see .
27 When she read those magazines , did she think she 'd ever be part of that world ?
28 It 's as bland and unruffled as the one she read last month : There 's no danger to the public , radioactivity levels are inside the permitted safety level , the three workers are perfectly well and undergoing routine tests .
29 Kate stopped in her tracks as she applied red lipstick .
30 Katherine liked to believe that she was n't vindictive , but she did have certain rules , certain standards , both for her house and her business , and one of the reasons she had been so successful both in Dublin and now in London , was because she applied those rules rigorously .
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