Example sentences of "she [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The queer feeling came over her , that choking feeling in her throat which she experienced in the night , when she was lying awake trying to recall and piece together dim , fleeting memories of another time in which she had lived , when things had been both happy and sad , when angry broken sentences would not meet and so explain the odd pictures that formed in her mind . |
| 2 | Tennis , walking , dancing with the older women she met in the villages . |
| 3 | For the Ulster woman has spent the past year trying to adopt the pretty five-year-old she met in the dark and desolate corridors of a Romanian orphanage . |
| 4 | No matter who she met in the future , that walk in the lemon-scented night with him would be one part of her she would never share with anyone . |
| 5 | While she shared in the bride-to-be 's euphoria , as the wife of the Queen 's assistant private secretary , she could n't help but be concerned about how Diana would cope with royal life . |
| 6 | All she had were some notes she made in the car , witnessed by Dexter . |
| 7 | All magicians can be tested by laughter because corruption can not stand mockery ; and when his daughter laughed at him he drove her out into the wilderness , and she lived in the wilderness with the wild beasts and angels ministered to her . |
| 8 | She lived in the Palestinian camp at Rashidiyeh , a wretched four square miles of breeze-block huts and cabins relieved only by the occasional tree , a straggling plant hanging from a poorly made brick wall and an open sewer that snaked uneasily down the centre of the mud roads . |
| 9 | She lived in the present , loving her more each day and experiencing the secret joy of sharing in her child 's upbringing . |
| 10 | There she lived in the school house and had charge of a little brood of no more than eight or nine children . |
| 11 | As Gail Brunskill , she lived in the village of St Bees in Cumbria before moving to Whitehaven . |
| 12 | Carrie lifted her head and looked at him , and what she saw was a young boy , the same young boy she had known when she lived in the cottage . |
| 13 | But she lived in the shadow of her sporty sisters and her mother who was ‘ captain of everything ’ when she was at school and would have played at Junior Wimbledon but for an attack of appendicitis . |
| 14 | She lived in the house . |
| 15 | She lived in the present tense of the school with its totally absorbing pattern of routine and minor rebellion . |
| 16 | He laughed and told me she lived in the cabana . |
| 17 | She complained of too little to do now that she lived in the village as companion to an elderly lady . |
| 18 | Then I thought that she lived in the cottage — Maria looked after her , perhaps ; or perhaps this room that was to be mine for the week-end was normally hers . |
| 19 | She lived in the house where my mother had been born and had spent the first seventeen years of her life , up until the time she was married . |
| 20 | She and her sister inherited the Treffry estates in Cornwall from their brother in 1779 , and after her husband 's death in 1786 she lived in the family home , Place , at Fowey . |
| 21 | She lived in the country with her husband and she was a great cook . |
| 22 | Only she lived in the posh part , called Hove , and whenever people said ‘ You live in Brighton , do n't you ? ’ it was normal to reply ‘ Hove , actually ’ until it almost had become the name , Hove-Actually . |
| 23 | Again it would not matter if the person were a US citizen or not , so long as he or she lived in the US the classification would stand . |
| 24 | In fact , she realised with mounting dismay , everything she owned in the world was aboard Water Gypsy . |
| 25 | ‘ Sixteen coffees , ’ she announced in the cool voice that they seemed to be using to each other , ‘ followed by — er — ’ Consulting her list , she continued , ‘ Six rounds of toast , five boiled eggs with soldiers … ’ |
| 26 | She got in the car with as much ceremony as if she were mounting a camel . |
| 27 | She got in the car to talk to him but , as the couple rowed , shot himself . |
| 28 | She got in the way of their passionate preoccupations . |
| 29 | Her worst was when she got in the way ; backstage timing sometimes had to be precise , and it was no place for someone who was still taking in the sights . |
| 30 | Well , perhaps one could believe that , but not- ’ Her voice dropped further now and her head came towards Peggy , saying , ‘ Not that you never bathed her , never had bathed her , and that she got in the bath with her father every night . |