Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been brought up in the sophistication of inner Moscow , and she had travelled to European Germany . |
| 2 | The wife stated that she had succumbed to undue pressure from her husband to sign the documents and that he had misrepresented their effect , in that she had believed that the security was limited to £60,000 and would last for only three weeks . |
| 3 | She had presented to another hospital two years previously with abdominal pain , weight loss , diarrhoea , and anaemia , when a diagnosis of Crohn 's disease was made . |
| 4 | A man has been jailed for life for strangling his estranged wife , after finding a love letter she had written to another man . |
| 5 | Since the marks on Mary 's body were not necessarily inconsistent with Thornton 's claim that she had consented to sexual intercourse , and since the times on the morning in question when Thornton was seen walking home to Bromwich suggested he could not have been with her when she met her death , the jury found him not guilty . |
| 6 | By the following morning she had recovered to some extent from the unusual happenings in her normally well ordered life . |
| 7 | The shape of the parcel she put on Michael 's make-up table showed that , for him at least , she had graduated to full-size bottles of champagne . |
| 8 | She had agreed to this dinner to try to find out the truth , and she must n't allow the attraction she felt for him to cloud that . |
| 9 | Bonham Carter said she had resorted to legal action as a last resort . |
| 10 | Often in the past she had listened to other women talking about their young men and she had tried not to dwell on what they said . |
| 11 | If she had listened to those warning bells more carefully … |