Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] in [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On that instant she put down her comb , and turned her back on her dressing-table mirror — and at the same time rejected any notion that she felt in any way excited . |
| 2 | It turned out that she lived in some place called Romford and as she was due to take me back there the day after the funeral I had only been left with a few hours to make a decision . |
| 3 | And she came in this day with these flowers and spoke to me and I did n't know who she was |
| 4 | Katherine Lundy operated in a world where deceit was accepted — indeed , expected , and she survived in this world because she herself had learned her lessons in one of the toughest schools of all — in the fire and revolution of Dublin before the " 16 Rising . |
| 5 | One day she fell and broke her hip : it was repaired in hospital but she remained in some pain and was even more precarious on her feet . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's never been a great woman composer , ’ said my mother with an air of triumph , not because she delighted in this deficiency of her sex , but because she thought it percipient to have noticed . |
| 7 | And they grew when she told in another interview how she could live on prawns , salad and water , and found eating ‘ a drag ’ . |
| 8 | Later as she lay in that bed , after she had eaten a meal in a small cheap cafe in New Oxford Street , she squirmed between sheets of a kind she had never seen before , purple knitted nylon . |
| 9 | As she moved in that direction , she glanced into the kitchen and caught sight of the clock . |
| 10 | For she had in some fashion , through her perceptive and precognitive powers — which in many ways she shared with Shelley — received Frankenstein 's story from the thin air , as far as I could determine . |