Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] she [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 With the power of her eyes alone she had compelled a glass of water to tip and spill its contents over the horrible Headmistress , and anybody who could do that could do anything .
2 12 months later she developed a pleural effusion and probable lung metastases .
3 But a few months later she made the famous VW advert .
4 Two months later she said : ‘ I keep trying to remember that the Government policy on broadcasting is ‘ quality , competition , choice ’ .
5 Some months later she became a paid organizer for the WSPU , and moved into a worker 's tenement in the Euston Road .
6 Then little invisible tadpole things in the pee swam through the bathwater up the woman 's bottom and laid eggs , and six months later she had a baby .
7 ‘ Well , ’ said Lady Furness , ‘ a few months later she met a fine man called Ernest Simpson .
8 Four months later she left the country and travelled constantly , following her lover wherever he wanted to go .
9 Three months later she left her parents and went to live with her boyfriend Peter .
10 ‘ And six months later she left hospital . ’
11 The experience left her physically and emotionally drained and a few months later she returned to hospital for a hysterectomy .
12 Six months later she went to prison as a suffragette , having lied about her age and enrolled as a militant .
13 Chemotherapy was prescribed but three months later she decided to fight the disease with her mind rather than chemicals .
14 However , three months later she relapsed .
15 Three months later she joined C&R on a full-time basis , although throughout her maternity leave she had been attending meetings and helping out on special project work .
16 Two months later she gave birth to a female child who was born with club feet .
17 Eleven months later she bore his son .
18 For almost six months now she had known the joy of waking every morning in a brand new feather bed like a fluted , pale pink shell in which no other woman had ever slumbered .
19 He added : ‘ A few months ago she went berserk .
20 A few months ago she sent me a letter , informing me that during a recent visit to All Saints church , Gresford , she had discovered that the church contained a standing stone .
21 Yes , two months ago she had been just one of the Pinehurst girls , and today she was the owner of a house and faced with the double problem of looking after her sister and providing a means of livelihood for them both .
22 Ten months ago she underwent a five-hour lung and heart transplant .
23 No news for 6 months then she came along with an anal fissure , she 'd not had any stomach problems and in fact had only taken the Arg Nit LM3 for 2 or 3 days till the headache went .
24 On asking a young woman from whom I had collected books how she knew of the sale , I got the pleasing reply ‘ It 's the highlight of my year . ’
25 Agnes Diggory was saying , dragging at Araminta 's shoulders where she sat , her laughter quenched , tears streaming down her face .
26 She pursed her lips when she looked at him .
27 He had begun it , but she was an active participant now , her breast voluptuously offered to the sensual onslaught of his parted lips when she knew she should be shrinking from them .
28 When she opened her eyes again she knew it was late .
29 Between these , gold-dark , dark-gold and violent pink , lay Lady Rose Martindale , solid but not fat or for in less , indeed very woman-shaped , in pink-and-brown striped silk bathing suit , with gold hair spattered softly over the brown flesh of her shoulders and whitish sand speckled on the gleam of her thighs where she had rolled from side to side .
30 That had been one of the biggest worries when she had first fled to France : what was everyone going to say ?
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