Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It shows the family size a woman would have if she experienced current age-specific fertility rates through her lifetime . |
| 2 | Queen Victoria , whom she made perpetual coarse jokes about in a way that struck people as uncalled for , had put her off marriage in the same way that she had put her off Scotland . |
| 3 | She made playful little biting movements down the side of his neck . |
| 4 | She made uneasy low noises , and her calf too |
| 5 | A week after Miss Halford was re-suspended the police authority announced that it was bringing further disciplinary charges against her , following allegations that she made abusive late-night telephone calls to Mr Sharples , another senior officer and two members of the authority . |
| 6 | I had watched Barbara Castle go through contortions as she made massive social security savings . |
| 7 | Frightened and helpless , she made incoherent little sounds of distress in her throat as her hands desperately tried to push him away . |
| 8 | And she got right flummoxed did n't she ? |
| 9 | But she did n't get she got ill treated and that and he did n't the erm boy did n't feed him properly so it 's all sort of skin and bone so we went and brought his pony and erm , we sort of fed it up and got it going again . |
| 10 | There , Helen became someone else ; she became brisk efficient well-liked Helen . |
| 11 | The air hung with an antiseptic aroma peculiar to hospitals , and as she passed elderly sick people Lucy suddenly felt very young and healthy . |
| 12 | Britain had a close affinity with the liberal-democratic and colonial states on the Continent , to whom she provided large-scale military and economic aid after the war . |
| 13 | ‘ Let's get back upstairs , ’ she said En route Maggie hunted through several bedrooms until she found suitable dry clothes , while Bryce stopped off at his bedroom on the staff floor and also changed . |
| 14 | To provide jobs she started a small jam factory and she sponsored left-wing republican political initiatives . |
| 15 | She used big general terms about the Falklands , but all she really meant was : Argies are n't going to mess white Britons about . |
| 16 | The tiles which she painted possessed great potential in kitchen design , he had informed her . |
| 17 | She lifted drowsy blue eyes to his , bemused by the power he seemed to have over her . |
| 18 | Under close supervision by Babbage she prepared extensive supplementary notes to Menabrea 's paper . |
| 19 | Mrs Jones felt that the slow progress of the assessment and the limited information she received created new problems instead of resolving existing ones : ‘ It introduces so much trauma — you 're getting all the criticism all the time but you 're not getting any information because it takes so long . ’ |
| 20 | Every week she wrote to Liza , letters to which she received brief erratic replies . |
| 21 | Once again she seemed good humoured and relaxed in her grand surroundings . |
| 22 | She turned curious blue eyes on her daughter from beneath the rim of her battered straw hat , but Caroline hardly heard her . |
| 23 | She turned bright pink . |
| 24 | Her brightly rouged cheeks crinkling into a fine network of wrinkles as she showed large yellow teeth . |
| 25 | She showed severe potential spasticity , so the physiotherapists took great care to prevent her from being twisted into deformity . |
| 26 | He was there too when Sam 's relationships ran into trouble — at various times she dated Australian bankrupt Peter Foster , ex-reporter Kit Miller and a Spanish bullfighter , Rafi Camino . |
| 27 | There she discovered other young people like herself , seeking for truth and meaning . |
| 28 | The third , a 69 year old patient with an inoperable rectosigmoid cancer , underwent further laser treatment 10 months after radiotherapy when she developed recurrent rectal discharge . |
| 29 | In later years when they were reduced to penury , she displayed great moral heroism in preserving intact the framework of a family and a household , which alone enabled her husband to continue his work . |
| 30 | In comparison with the 1930s Britain was in an ascendent political position in Europe and she enjoyed considerable economic advantages over her main rivals . |