Example sentences of "and she [adv] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said this stiffly , not wanting to be accused of bragging — something else that had happened to her when she was a child , and she just stated a fact , or answered a question . |
| 2 | He saw her shoulders shift , and she unconsciously raised a hand to undo the buttons of the bodice of the dark pelisse she still wore over an equally dark gown , the top of which was now revealed , made high to the throat . |
| 3 | and she willingly made a gift of it to her mother in sincere , if perhaps slightly exasperated affection . |
| 4 | ‘ I gave her some poached chicken breast at lunchtime and she even managed a couple of scones for tea . ’ |
| 5 | The Society presented her with a beautiful flower arrangement and she also received a selection of other gifts including a small tea service . |
| 6 | The Society presented her with a beautiful flower arrangement and she also received a selection of other gifts including a small tea service . |
| 7 | Birds nested in the eighteenth-century ballroom but the chapel was carefully maintained and she also retained a butler and a chauffeur for the Rolls-Royce . |
| 8 | The Irish National League asked her to witness evictions taking place in Donegal and she soon acquired a reputation as a charismatic force . |
| 9 | The melodrama of it appealed to her sense of the ridiculous , and she hastily stifled a laugh as a youth passing inside gave her an odd look . |
| 10 | She supplemented the once-weekly group sessions by finishing activities begun in the session with her class and she sometimes initiated a task for the whole class to do to reinforce what had been done with the advisory teacher . |
| 11 | Gracie Fields had a tremendous faculty of projection , perhaps stemming from her old Music Hall days , and she never needed a microphone for her ringing voice ; either belting out ‘ Its the Biggest Aspidistra in the World ’ , or singing gently ‘ Sally ’ , each syllable was heard in every corner of the huge auditorium . |
| 12 | Some children become institutionalised more quickly than others , and she still had a bit of fire left in her when I went to the orphanage for her . |
| 13 | Slowly she discovered tricks of the trade such as weighting her hems so that they did n't blow up in a breeze and she gradually acquired a coterie of designers , including Catherine Walker , David Sassoon and Victor Edelstein , whom she now relies upon . |
| 14 | The smallest French phrase made her glower , and she hardly said a word . |
| 15 | ‘ Ireland was in the heart of her heart , ’ said Sir Michael E. Sadler [ q.v. ] , and she always felt a touch of the exile 's longing . |
| 16 | I mean there 's , there 's nowt no harm if , if , if you went to aunty Mary 's and she definitely gave a date , a date to come , it would be nice if you went and come back |