Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An hour later , Lalage came tip-toeing into her room where she heard a dog whining gently . |
| 2 | She walked at a leisurely pace to the back of the hold , where she unlocked a control panel and pressed several buttons . |
| 3 | Suitably deglamorised , even to the extent of hiding her shapeliness beneath loose-fitting garments , she made her way to G Vasey Ltd , where she spent a morning being shown to her office , and being introduced around the contracts and purchasing department . |
| 4 | At last , in an effort to bring her mind back to an even keel , she went to the office , where she discovered a pile of farm accounts had been left on the desk . |
| 5 | What she did was to go through her cupboards , where she discovered a dress which had once belonged to Clara 's cousin , and which had been enclosed years before in a charitable parcel of hands-on . |
| 6 | One of Aunt Tossie 's luxuries was an early breakfast in bed — later she came down to the dining room where she ate a second . |
| 7 | She looked around the vestibule , suddenly aware that this room where she ate a brioche and drank milky coffee as if at a feast of the gods on those mornings when she managed to get up in time was a mere dingy parlour , the curtains grey with city smuts , the tables pocked and charred by cigarettes . |
| 8 | A year or so later she told everyone that they must make an annual pilgrimage to that city , where she had a cousin in the catering trade who was prepared to give them all cheap rates , but by that time Rose was losing her grip on the faithful . |
| 9 | Editorial assistant Paula Lockey spent a day at Grayshott Hall Health and Fitness Resort where she had a body massage , a reflexology consultation and an hour-long Cathiodermie facial . |
| 10 | She arrived at her hotel in Mariánské Láznë early on Thursday afternoon , where she had a snack in her room while she got out Cara 's list and memorised again all the questions she was to put to Mr Vendelin Gajdusek in the morning . |
| 11 | Leaving them all stunned , she walked out to the lounging boatmen , where she commandeered a motorboat . |
| 12 | A jar was found for the snowdrops , then she made her way to the office , where she opened a bag of mail and sorted what were obviously accounts , from private letters . |
| 13 | Instead , she wandered into town , where she bought a bag of chips , well soused in vinegar and wrapped in newspaper ; she took the bag to her room , where she sat on the edge of the single bed , slowly eating chips in the dark and thinking . |
| 14 | Because the definition of ‘ informal carer ’ can be so vague , we decided to focus on each person 's principal carer ( if there was one ) , defined on the objective criterion that he or she spent a minimum of seven hours per week ( on average one hour per day ) doing things with or on behalf of the dementia sufferer , rather than rely on the more subjective criterion of who appears to be most responsible for the sufferer . |
| 15 | A duty solicitor had an obligation to provide advice to persons in custody and , if desired , to make a bail application ; he or she had a discretion to provide advice and representation to defendants , whether or not in custody , in cases involving imprisonable offences , and even in connection with non-imprisonable offences in exceptional cases . |
| 16 | The graduate in English was to be to some extent a scholar , in so far as he or she had a sense of the past and the capacity to understand literature in its historical contexts , particularly linguistic ; beyond that , what was looked for was wide reading , an appreciation of masterpieces , and a capacity to write well , attend to evidence , and disentangle sense from nonsense in argument . |
| 17 | ‘ Tell your client , ’ said the voice at the other end of the phone , ‘ that he or she would have a better chance of establishing who is or is not responsible for his or her dustbins if he or she employed a lawyer who did n't address his inquiries to people whose principal concern is pharmacology . ’ |
| 18 | But although she accepted a dressing-down from him in public , and indeed made a point of telling people ‘ Oh ! |
| 19 | She objected to his formal jargon , although she imagined a glint of amusement accompanying it . |
| 20 | Because although she kept a guard on her tongue when she was with him , determined not to risk another quarrel , she had had to stop pretending to herself . |
| 21 | Although she survived a no confidence motion on June 17 [ see p. 38299 ] , a BVA-Paris Match poll conducted on June 14-19 found that only 27 per cent of respondents had a " good opinion " of her ( as opposed to 43 per cent a month previously ) . |
| 22 | Although she snatched a moment whenever she could to telephone her much missed family , ‘ you could feel her disappointments , her lack of freedom . |
| 23 | ‘ No , ’ answered Raffaella and then went on to tell Julia with no self-consciousness at all that she became a prostitute in Rome , where the dollar-rich American soldiers were prepared to pay a small fortune to a good-looking , elegant girl . |
| 24 | He returned her look with a glance so suddenly intent that she felt a flash of absurd panic , and rose hurriedly to busy herself with the teapot . |
| 25 | She would have similarly to hide from his employer the fact that she felt a wreck inside . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've run away , ’ he said , staring at her with such intensity that she felt a rush of alarm . |
| 27 | Obviously , that was not the case but it may be that Viola was so used to people thinking like that about her that she felt a need to assert herself as well . |
| 28 | It was not that she felt a need for approval , but it was disheartening that these people should show so little comprehension of the sacrifice she had made in wedding her life to theirs . |
| 29 | Clare had planned so often the details of her own wedding , so often pictured herself , radiant in a long , white dress with train , leaning on her father 's arm , advancing with a slow , fragile step down the aisle towards Mark , handsome and smiling in morning dress , while the organ pealed and the candles and flowers blazed , and the guests beamed and whispered in the crowded pews — that she felt a surge of pity for the girl who would have nothing to remember but this sordid little ceremony . |
| 30 | The child lay down ; then she watched the big fat woman undress herself , noticing particularly Mat she did not wear corsets like her mama , but that she wore a habit shirt , and one bodice petticoat and two waist petticoats . |