Example sentences of "[conj] she [be] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachel , 25 , was last night described as ‘ still poorly ’ in the psychiatric unit of Broadgreen Hospital where she was admitted more than a week ago . |
| 2 | he bound her hands and raped her … he then drove her to the nearby village of Olney … where she was raped again … |
| 3 | Michael Lee was well used to Katherine 's preference for darkened rooms ; when had had first started work for her , he had done some research and discovered that when she had operated in Dublin , she had never appeared in public during the daylight hours and always met her business associates in darkened rooms , where she was known only as Madam Kitten . |
| 4 | Apart from there being nothing on the walls , there 's very little of the personal here considering that she 's lived here six months . |
| 5 | For Rosemary , the insult on top of all the cruelty is in the fact that forty years had to pass before she was able to find the courage to lift the lid on the private hell that she 's bottled up all those years . |
| 6 | There 's a bloody maniac on the loose and you tell me that she 's grown up ! ’ |
| 7 | My only sorrow is that she 's turned out so fair . |
| 8 | His story is that she 's walked out on him , but there are one or two suspicious circumstances . |
| 9 | I 'm over my paranoia that she 's taken over my life . |
| 10 | Still , it appears that she 's quietened down considerably . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , Marie , ’ I say , pretending that she 's sat there listening to me . |
| 12 | Another difference between the characterization of Alison and that of the three men is that she is seen totally from the outside — one sees her appearance in her face and her clothes ; we see what actions she does . |
| 13 | I still have to carry water to her because sometimes she wo n't come out of the byre and follow her mother , which means that she is left all on her own . |
| 14 | Her famous voice ( ‘ Percet ’ said Sir Colin Davis of the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden ) , is in such worldwide demand that she is booked up for years to come . |
| 15 | Indeed , she believes that she is caught up in a bureaucratic cage , the different branches of the council being in league with local and national branches of other sections of the state apparatus . |
| 16 | His own queen , whom Surere had revered so deeply , when she requested that she be buried not in the new City of the Horizon , but near her old home , in the Valley of the Dead across the river from the Southern Capital , had been granted her wish , though it had hurt Akhenaten deeply . |
| 17 | He had promised William Tanner he would keep his eye on his daughter and make sure that she was treated right and that none of the customers took advantage of her . |
| 18 | She saw that she was dressed entirely in jewels … |
| 19 | Belinda was instantly aware of the fact that she was dressed only in the silk slip that Faye had decided best captured the mood she wanted for her painting . |
| 20 | Her limbs were unsteady as she padded on bare feet , staggering a little , towards the door , oblivious to the fact that she was dressed only in a thin nightgown , that her half-combed hair flared untidily about her shoulders . |
| 21 | She made a brilliant debut in This Girl 's Army and followed up with two light romances ; the publicity department declared that she was grown up when she charmed Alfred Hitchcock and won an Oscar nomination for Reasonable Doubt , a sophisticated courtroom melodrama . |
| 22 | Steen had assumed from Jacqui 's message to Nigel that she was involved too . |
| 23 | ’ Beatrice complained that she was run down in health and beginning to dread ‘ the swoop of the Assyrian on my fold ’ . |
| 24 | She supposed that she must face the fact that she was run down after the years of nursing and the final shock of Donald 's death . |
| 25 | Priscilla Savage remembers her mother telling her that she was placed down in the shade between two bundles of corn in an angle of the harvest field , and she was fed during the brief intervals her mother won from the gavelling . |
| 26 | I became frustrated almost to screaming when I had finished a well-received and humorous story about the death of my grandfather and found that she was turned away in deep conversation with another woman . |
| 27 | Sadly , though , her behaviour was so unpredictable that she was moved on , and I lost contact . ’ |
| 28 | But yesterday , possums , Dame Edna Everage revealed that she was fed up with rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous . |
| 29 | She gave every indication that she was fed up to the teeth . |
| 30 | It seemed that she was determined not to take him seriously . |