Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was exhausted ; more so because of the alarmed way she had sprung out of reach whenever Guy had become restless , than from the number of times she had sponged him down in an attempt to cool his fever . |
| 2 | He had been a young man when she had met him back in 1898 . |
| 3 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
| 4 | He did not know if she had written it down in the letter , or if the cake was to be his punishment for all the bad things he had done . |
| 5 | Nor did I bear any ill-will against my poor mother , though she had brought me up in error , innocently ignorant of what she was doing to my psyche . |
| 6 | She had curled herself up in a corner of the motorspeeder to get some rest , but there was too much adrenalin swimming aimlessly about her system and her eyes kept opening themselves . |