Example sentences of "she [vb past] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One woman described how she experienced an aggressive pattern : ‘ I found it very difficult to cope with women over me , especially if I thought that they were n't being fair — although I had no problems when dealing with men . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not surprising she met an early grave , she 's smoked forty a day ever since I 've known her and that 's thirty years , ’ and , ‘ What do you expect , smoking all her life — God rest her soul , ’ are common judgements made by those left behind . |
| 3 | She expected an angry response , and it rather unnerved her when it did n't come . |
| 4 | She made an admirable chairman , able to cut through confusion and muddle . |
| 5 | She made an awful job of it — ten times worse . |
| 6 | Much against the queen 's will , Alice Keppel insisted on seeing the dying king ; on being asked to leave the death chamber , she made an embarrassing scene and had to be escorted out . |
| 7 | She made an inadequate attempt to neaten her cap , then fidgeted with her cuffs , keeping her back to her sister . |
| 8 | She made an irritable movement . |
| 9 | She made an impatient sound . |
| 10 | She made an angry sound . |
| 11 | I was sent to a boarding-school — ’ She made an angry gesture with her hand . |
| 12 | She made an angry movement but controlled herself . |
| 13 | She made an enormous difference in the house . |
| 14 | She made an inarticulate protest and tried to pull him closer , but deliberately he moved out of reach , leaving space between them . |
| 15 | Hamnett was educated at Cheltenham Ladies College and went to St Martin 's School of Art to study fashion design in 1965 ; she made an indelible impression there . |
| 16 | She lived an easy drive away , near Newbury . |
| 17 | She got an awful lot of things did n't she ? |
| 18 | Then after a while she got an inner strength and asked me what Heaven was like . |
| 19 | She got an enthusiastic response , ‘ Of course , Mrs Petherington , I can stay in through my lunch-break if need be . |
| 20 | She got an answering machine and was pretty certain that she recognized his voice from the times he 'd given a television reporter a few words at the scene of crime . |
| 21 | She unearthed an ancient bicycle from some forgotten shed corner and proceeded to ride it from cottage to cottage , her sackful of letters stuffed compactly into a basket in the front . |
| 22 | She stabbed an angry finger into his chest . |
| 23 | An only child , all her relatives and close friends in Baldersdale had either died or moved away , and she became an abandoned person in a mostly abandoned dale . |
| 24 | With Vera Brittain she became an influential feminist and member of Rhondda 's Six Point Group . |
| 25 | Five years ago , she became an enthusiastic trainee in the Merseyside police training college , near Warrington . |
| 26 | On leaving school she became an active member of the Keep Fit Association , Laban Guild , English , Scottish and Irish Dancing . |
| 27 | She became an accomplished pianist and several of her pictures were exhibited at the Royal Academy . |
| 28 | And from somewhere beneath a cupboard she produced an enormous canvas draped in a sheet and showed it to me . |
| 29 | Sharon McKenna , a Catholic , was shot dead by the UVF as she helped an elderly Protestant friend on Belfast 's Shore Road . |
| 30 | She drove to a cottage where she helped an old woman bent in half like a crooked stump into the front passenger seat . |