Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She left when she got adopted as Conservative candidate for Newbury , so he is not without erm competent female advice , and some would say perhaps they have more power than the having a woman colleague in the cabinet . |
| 2 | Her mother said she 'd fallen on hard times . |
| 3 | Mrs Wright put it in the vase that she 'd filled with fresh water . |
| 4 | I was a little concerned though when the makers of ‘ MiniMag ’ asked what experience she 'd had of articulated vehicles and she replied , ‘ I 've spent my life driving Daddy 's horse-boxes . ’ |
| 5 | She was in the happiest frame of mind she 'd known in recent times when later that day she returned to her car . |
| 6 | Nevertheless she 'd put it round her neck and there it had stayed ever since while she 'd tried with scant success to forget the brief period of ecstasy she 'd shared with the man whose gift it had been . |
| 7 | She 'd died from multiple stab wounds to the chest . |
| 8 | She 'd smiled with gritted teeth . |
| 9 | Towards the end , she had been moved to the big green bedroom in the West Tower , where she lay propped on high pillows , often delirious , each day weaker and weaker . |
| 10 | When I eventually did contact her things seemed to be going quite well due to supportive family but she felt isolated from other mothers in the same situation as herself . |
| 11 | She felt torn by conflicting emotions . |
| 12 | I realise she had attended with other children and it 's no easy task to keep track on all of them . |
| 13 | The Scottish National Party Euro-MP for the Highlands and Islands , Winnie Ewing , wrote to the Secretary of State for Scotland , detailing some of the correspondence she had received from worried parents . |
| 14 | She had examined with analytical precision her empty and disgusting marriage with an impotent old man , and her candid delight at the death that had put an end to it . |
| 15 | Elizabeth retired a little earlier than she had planned for domestic reasons but says that she intends to keep in touch with colleagues . |
| 16 | Although she started out a creature of Parisian tastes in the sixties , by the seventies she had turned towards Iranian fabrics and designs ; where she went her court and may others followed . |
| 17 | Claire Easterbrook , Senior Scientific Officer in the Biology Department and , with Lorrimer 's death , the senior biologist , had taken from her briefcase a scientific paper she had prepared on recent advances in blood grouping and settled down to revise it with as little apparent concern as if murder at Hoggatt 's were a routine inconvenience for which , prudently , she was always provided . |
| 18 | Grainne blinked and shook her head , because just for a few seconds she had seen with dreadful clarity the Dark Ireland , the Evil Realm , the world of malevolence and malignancy . |
| 19 | ‘ ’ Devon , the garden of England ! ’ ' said Breeze , quoting from the brightly coloured placards she had seen in various stations en route . |
| 20 | It seemed to Marie like those ‘ executive-style ’ rooms she had seen in numerous television advertisements and soap operas : bright , spacious and open plan with acres of carpets , a jungle of lush potted plants , low leather chairs with squashy seats and coffee tables , casually strewn with expensive , up-market magazines . |
| 21 | She had lived among Genoese merchants in Bruges : Anselm Adorne had her respect and affection . |
| 22 | Privacy ; Erika longed for it herself , often , but it occurred to her , for the first time , that her mother might long for it , too , might want it and , indeed , need it , and it dawned on her , also for the first time , that her mother had never had any privacy since the end of the War ; that all her life since then she had lived in small apartments , actually in one small room for long periods , and sharing even that room with others … . |
| 23 | But the more she had discovered about her-pampered upbringing , an unearned regular allowance from her father , a handsome legacy in Mills ' will — the more Christine 's hypocrisy rankled . |
| 24 | She had dressed with extra care that morning and knew that she looked her best in the slim-fitting navy suit with a spotless white blouse , but it was disconcerting to be subjected to such a scrutiny . |
| 25 | All her life she had battled against cystic fibrosis . |
| 26 | From leaving school at twelve years of age until her marriage to Hywell Gates at the age of twenty-five , she had slaved in other peoples houses for a pittance . |
| 27 | He had offered to top up the money he had given her before by another twenty pounds and she had accepted with polite reluctance . |
| 28 | She had been brought up in the sophistication of inner Moscow , and she had travelled to European Germany . |
| 29 | But , although she had progressed from happy childhood to happy marriage , all the while a conflict was raging within her . |
| 30 | But she was impatient of their return to the home she had created in endless sketches ; impatient too of Jacob 's incessant meetings with colleagues , with acolytes who sat transfixed , listening to him as if they were on their knees . |