Example sentences of "she [vb past] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slanted a challenging look at Claudia . |
| 2 | Looking at them , she experienced a curious sense of exclusion ; she wondered who the woman was ; she wondered how well Giles knew her . |
| 3 | She experienced a strong feeling of déjà vu , as if she 'd seen him before , as if she knew him . |
| 4 | As Louise moved away she experienced a powerful urge to grab the massager and tug it close to her secret places again but she did not dare . |
| 5 | Each time she read the story , she experienced a new shock ; it was the shock of finding the new contained and expressed in the framework and the terms of the old . |
| 6 | One fourteenth-century manuscript contains information about four : those of Catherine of Siena , the fourteenth-century Italian girl who became a Dominican tertiary and whose teaching based on mystical certainty of the reality of her union with Christ , with whom she experienced a spiritual visionary marriage , was given official Dominican patronage ; and three thirteenth-century Belgian mystics : Christina called Mirabilis from St Truden ; Elizabeth of Spalbeck , a Belgian recluse patronised by the Cistercians ; and the prototypical Beguine , Mary of Oignies , championed by Jacques de Vitry , the Bishop of Acres and later a Cardinal Legate at the court of Gregory IX who protected her and wrote her biography . |
| 7 | Wandering around looking at the different displays , she experienced a strange sensation of being drawn towards something . |
| 8 | Now angry frustration replaced satisfaction , and she experienced a little spurt of apprehension amid the bleak realisation that he had n't been speaking out of generosity after all . |
| 9 | The sound system 's speakers were like upended steamer trunks , one on top of another ; standing so close , the volume gave her a sensation in her ears like that of tearing paper and she experienced a few moments of sensory overload before she recognised the tune as New York , New York . |
| 10 | Alice 's father , a naturalized British subject since 1852 , indulged his wanderlust during Alice 's first fifteen years , and thus she experienced a constant change of scene and sound , living in New Zealand , Mexico , the United States , and Europe , until the family settled in Tonbridge in 1874 . |
| 11 | Yet Xanthe 's tidy existence felt mussed in Miranda 's company ; she experienced a sudden , vivid awareness of prohibitions hedging her about , and with the awareness , a desire to break them . |
| 12 | Her left elbow was still stiff since her injury in the air raid and she failed a medical for heavier work . |
| 13 | She flung a petrified look back at his mother . |
| 14 | ‘ And I suppose that with your superior knowledge you 've worked out that this — scene of devastation — ’ she flung a careless hand in the general direction of the office ‘ — is all down to me . |
| 15 | Eileen joined with them but before long she met a young man and started courting so dropped the dances . |
| 16 | In the village where Ng Mui eventually settled , she met a young girl named Yim Wing Chun , to whom she taught her system . |
| 17 | Cis was coming out of the Co-op one day ( hoping that Rich had not , yet again , taken some cigarettes and put them on her account ) , when she met a bristle-moustached Meredith Jones who demanded , ‘ How can you let him do it ? ’ |
| 18 | Turning her head , she met a slow , sleepy smile from Ross as he , too , raised himself to a sitting position against the pillows . |
| 19 | When still unmarried , she met a penniless and obviously sick Frenchman who had lived in the South Seas and had come to Koraloona to paint . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , ’ said Lady Furness , ‘ a few months later she met a fine man called Ernest Simpson . |
| 21 | During her second year , she met a first-year medical student , and became quite involved with him . |
| 22 | The villagers often joked that if she met a German tank on the road to Berkeley , she would order it off the road and pass on as if nothing had happened . |
| 23 | She read a few lines , then made a face . |
| 24 | Worse still , after she had made a little money from the publication of a pamphlet containing her beastly poems about him , she commissioned a rubber dress from ‘ her designer ’ . |
| 25 | That girl who was in the elevator plunged on the ninth floor she plunged a thousand feet to the sub-basement or there 's massive big springs on it apparently , I read about it . |
| 26 | She shared a 6.55 am scheduled flight from nearby Aberdeen to Humberside with thirty businessmen and oil-rig workers . |
| 27 | But the alternative of returning to the hall , and traversing its crowded sixty-foot length to gain the opposite staircase leading to the upper storey , where she shared a tiny chamber with Adele and two of Matilda 's ladies , was just as unappealing . |
| 28 | She shared a few with Hackney 's mayor Harry Shaw . |
| 29 | She expected a loud shout of . |
| 30 | When Jo Spence began to experiment with phototherapy in the early 1980s , she led a radical departure in women 's photography from campaigning reportage to narratives of personal history and self image . |