Example sentences of "she [vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The night before her operation Mrs Fellows was prescribed a sedative to help her relax and sleep because she admitted that she felt very nervous . |
| 2 | But now she admitted that she 'd simply been unaffected by them . |
| 3 | Disconcerted , she admitted that she 'd only done this once before , that , in all honesty , I could probably do it equally well on my own . |
| 4 | She realised that they had just joined the main motorway heading north-west out of London . |
| 5 | But , as she trailed after him into their own bedroom , leaning against the door while he quickly packed his case , she realised that she 'd already lost him . |
| 6 | She was still feeling somewhat shaken an hour later — she was going to Prague — and with Ven ! — when suddenly she realised that she 'd barely moved since that phone call . |
| 7 | With a start of shame she realised that she 'd scarcely paid her sister a moment 's thought since entering the gardens . |
| 8 | He leaned across with the bottle , and she realised that she 'd almost drained her glass at the first attack . |
| 9 | She realised that she had only been half alive for the last four years . |
| 10 | She realised that she felt absolutely drained . |
| 11 | She found herself peering into nooks and crannies , not that he could manage to conceal himself into one , with his breadth , and was almost disappointed when she realised that he had most probably gone out . |
| 12 | Mairi was furious when after a while Luch started to take long to return with the bucket , but it did her no good ; the wee lass often vanished for hours at a time , in spite of the scoldings she got when she returned late . |
| 13 | She thought she knew herself very well , but faced with God she realized that she knew virtually nothing . |
| 14 | As she looked down at this small collection of his personal belongings , she realized that she had never thought of him as having any reality beyond the few hours they had spent together at the cottage . |
| 15 | ‘ What 's up with his lordship ? ’ she asked as she walked across to drop a kiss on her mother 's proffered cheek . |
| 16 | For the person she became when she went there . |
| 17 | She trembled as he stared straight at her , and not with the cold . |
| 18 | She reported that she had already removed , cleaned and returned them as she had caught some wool under one of them . |
| 19 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she shouted as she went downstairs . |
| 20 | The heels of wine bottles were cold green moons she stroked as she slid past . |
| 21 | She behaved as she had never thought it would be possible for her to behave . |
| 22 | She found that they vary independently of each other which suggests that at least one of the inversions is on one of the 8 metacentric pairs not involved in the numerical variability ( C. R. Bantock , personal communication ) . |
| 23 | She found that she stayed quite dry there , but she wished she were somewhere else ! |
| 24 | When she came to pay for the bill , she found that it had already been paid . |
| 25 | When Wendy opened hers , she found that it consisted entirely of crispbread and realised that she would be able to eat only during the applause — Harrison Birtwhistle 's music had not yet been written . |
| 26 | Joanna — ’ She stopped and he interrupted quickly . |
| 27 | She stopped when she got quite close and crouched down , putting her hand out to me . |
| 28 | One last kiss , then Kate was left alone in the small bedroom that she used when she came home . |
| 29 | She added that he had later asked her to tell detectives that he had been at home all Saturday night . |
| 30 | Everyone knew how important punctuality was to Laura ; she believed if you arrived late it could only be because you had not started out early enough . |