Example sentences of "she [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | This measures the average number of children a woman would have if she experienced the prevailing age pattern of childbearing throughout her reproductive lifetime . |
2 | After protesting that she simply could n't share her bed with anyone else , she admitted the real reason : she was ashamed to let him see that she had to get up to pee once or twice a night . |
3 | Some weeks later , discussing the arts , she admitted the English sense of humour was difficult to understand initially , and only now could she laugh at my greeting of , ‘ Help , I am being bitten by a sanitary towel ! ’ |
4 | She flung the inside door to one side , was about to slam it but changed her mind and closed it behind her in a quiet and controlled manner . |
5 | She flung the whole tangle of thought away from her and ran fast up the stairs as though in the room some delight or pleasure awaited her , not the hard task of painting . |
6 | When she was just about within striking distance , she flung the soaking bundle with all her might in his direction , shouted , ‘ Take that ! ’ and then ran , not waiting to see if she had hit the target or not . |
7 | She never met any men until she met the young man whom I can not think of as my father . |
8 | At this time she met the young ( Sir ) Edwin Lutyens [ q.v. ] , also a native of West Surrey , and together they drove around the narrow lanes in her dogcart , sketching and photographing details that appealed to them : a buttressed wall , a patterned chimney , the angle of a building which , although the result of chance , was pleasing in design . |
9 | She flushed as she met the quizzical expression in Helen 's eyes . |
10 | WHAT a moving picture ( right ) of Kerry Needham when she met the blond boy who was not her son . |
11 | There it was again : that feeling of being mesmerised as obediently she met the ice-blue gaze which devoured her . |
12 | Drawn to socialism by her sister , Eva , she met the Irish labour leaders , James Connolly and James Larkin [ qq.v. ] , and helped the 1913 lockout strike of Dublin workers by running a soup kitchen in Liberty Hall . |
13 | On Sunday she heard Nahum preach for the first time , and she met the assistant curate , a young , delicate-looking man by the name of Daniel Marsh . |
14 | She paused , feeling a shiver work its way down her spine as she met the black eyes that were regarding her so closely now . |
15 | And as she met the dark gaze of Guido Falcone , her breath caught as though a fist had connected with her solar plexus . |
16 | She met the burning passion of his eyes , and time ceased . |
17 | She met the searching gaze , as she swallowed two headache tablets . |
18 | Her eyes narrowed into hostile slits as she met the cold gaze of her mother-in-law . |
19 | As she met the clinical look in Penry Vaughan 's eyes she stiffened , the reason for his change of mood suddenly , mortifyingly , obvious . |
20 | The deep voice behind her made her jump and , turning quickly , she met the smiling face of the man who had attracted her attention a short while back . |
21 | As Lucy moved back out into the passageway , she met the returning tide from the last ensemble number onstage ; they arrived in a rush , panting like horses and shedding their quasi-military costumes as they moved . |
22 | In 1892 she went with her mother on a visit to South Africa , where she met the feminist Olive Schreiner [ q.v. ] and fell traumatically in love with an unmarriageable man . |
23 | In 1900 she met the American collector Samuel Bancroft , who became her foremost patron . |
24 | ‘ Because when Mamma was in Venice last year I think she met the same man . |
25 | Fran stared at him in confusion , feeling a pulse starting to beat high in her throat as she met the mesmerising stare . |
26 | Frogmarched to the open rear doors , she met the fourth man coming the other way , his arms struggling to restrain the squirming , yelling child . |
27 | After beginning a career in showbusiness , she went to entertain the troops in France , where she met the hard-bitten Chicagoan cornettist Jimmy McPartland . |
28 | Gingerly she lowered the sweet-tempered child into the cot , not taking her eyes from her exquisite face , Ruth stood gripping the sides of the cot with fingers whitened in an attempt at stopping them shaking . |
29 | She read the classic children 's novels wonderfully well , so well indeed that books like The Scarlet Pimpernel were often a disappointment when re-read by us in private afterwards . |
30 | On the sheet of paper inside she read the baldest message . |