Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alarm was raised when she failed to turn up for a meeting with students . |
| 2 | The therapist also suggested that Pamela should tell her parents more about what she was doing ; for example , what time she planned to come home in the evening . |
| 3 | Colleagues wept as they told how she planned to meet up with a friend for a two-week walking holiday . |
| 4 | Joseph noticed that she avoided passing close to the iron grilles closing off the between-deck areas of the ship and when she reached the stern she gazed into the jungle for a moment , then closed her eyes and lifted her face to the gentle warmth of the morning sun . |
| 5 | She became bogged down by the very size of the country , the lengthy supply lines , her inability to have her army spread thickly on the ground , the increasingly effective guerilla warfare waged by the Chinese communists , as well as by debilitating rivalries within the Japanese army itself . |
| 6 | On the following Monday she proposed to go back to the job she had taken to make it financially possible for Peter and her to buy their little home . |
| 7 | She tried looking out of the window to the hospital 's green lawns and the tall eucalypts that stood motionless against a gloriously blue August sky , but found that looking away seemed too impolite . |
| 8 | When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped . |
| 9 | Even though she tried to listen out for the sound of a returning car , the castle and the road leading up to it remained as silent as the grave . |
| 10 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 11 | She tried to make out from the hill , as she jogged down the track , whether the ferryboat was plying among the craft in the harbour . |
| 12 | When she tried to get out of the passenger door , he struck her again and called her more names . ’ |
| 13 | I talked to Mum , and she tried to think back to the day she met Elaine , and she remembered I was born in a nursing home in Birkleigh . |
| 14 | She tried to peer out of the peephole in her blind . |
| 15 | She tried to catch up with the machine , but she did n't want to attract any undue attention from the IMC troopers , and the thing seemed determined to ignore her . |
| 16 | She tried lying down on the bare mattress , but the whole place felt cold and close . |
| 17 | A teenage girl was seriously injured when a distress flare she found washed up on the beach at Margate , Kent , exploded in her pocket . |
| 18 | She sensed that the barometer of their fraught relationship had plummeted to an all-time freeze and , at last , tormented beyond endurance , she stopped typing halfway through a schedule and went into his office . |
| 19 | She stopped looking up at a rocket : a towering metal redwood that had never flown because the ones that flew were junk scattered across the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 20 | Ann-Marie Coombes was 16 when she crashed driving home from a pub . |
| 21 | At the church she 'd ended up in the cliche/1 situation of being frozen out by Marius ' relatives . |
| 22 | She 'd moved over into the makeup chair and had been studying her own face in the mirror . |
| 23 | She 'd moved over by the window and had been reaching for a chair , but now she stopped . |
| 24 | Once she 'd stepped on to the platform , there was nothing to do but turn , step , step , turn and nowhere to look but straight ahead . |
| 25 | Bewildered , she felt as if she 'd stepped back into a dark cave and was falling into the unknown . |
| 26 | Nobody knew much about her , she 'd turned up in the town as a sort of companion-housekeeper to an old lady who had a house in Morrab Close , a Mrs Armitage — a widow . |
| 27 | Instead of liking the look of the water , wading in carefully and finding it was wonderful , she 'd tumbled in at the deep end . |
| 28 | Strange that David should be coming along at that very moment that she 'd emerged on to the main road . |
| 29 | Twisting the key in the ignition , she wished , belatedly , that she 'd struggled more in the barn , been more scathing … |
| 30 | She 'd stayed down in the lane with a sullen look on her face . |