Example sentences of "she [verb] [adj] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have a question , ’ whispered the penguin , feeling as small as the day she 'd first slid into the waves . |
| 2 | She began to feel young and amazingly pretty , like she had felt all those years ago when she had first emerged from the chrysalis of self-conscious adolescence to spread her butterfly wings . |
| 3 | His breath smelt of the black pickled olives she had first tasted on the voyage from Dingle . |
| 4 | Laura liked the idea , partly because it was a way of avoiding import duty , but also because the eastern Kentucky women who worked at the factory were similar to the Welsh women she had first hired in the Sixties ; rural , with strong ties to family and community and skilful seamstresses by upbringing . |
| 5 | She was almost sure that if somebody had asked her about all this business when she had first woken in the back of the vehicle , she could , despite her pain and discomfort , have replied . |
| 6 | It was hard to reconcile this crisp , terse executive with the casual shorts-clad figure she had last seen on the jetty of the sailing club , directing the noisy , giggling group of children . |
| 7 | It was a collection she had last seen in the hands of William Fosdyke , Signor Fixit , as he locked up the house after her first visit . |
| 8 | Her breath and his rose into the air in clouds and there was that peaty smell which she had last smelt at the florist 's . |