Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] she [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She moved to the table , put her keys down , suddenly realising she had been clutching them tightly . |
| 2 | He 's going to be ages , thought Juliet desperately , suddenly realising she 'd been standing with her hands clenched together , and her eyes screwed tightly as if to hear better . |
| 3 | It was Diana , aged six — old enough to understand she had been left , but not yet old enough to understand why — who felt so bereft . |
| 4 | Rachel suddenly felt she 'd been through an emotional wringer . |
| 5 | I soon realized she 'd been raped — no need to go into the details . |
| 6 | ‘ Leith Everett , ’ she stated down the phone , and soon knew she had been living in a fool 's paradise these last few hours . |
| 7 | I just wish she had been here to see it , ’ said trainer Dave Morris . |
| 8 | I rather suspect she has been imagining nameless orgies . ’ |
| 9 | A MOTHER who returned home to find she had been burgled , collapsed and died minutes after the discovery . |
| 10 | It was impossible to know whether he still believed she 'd been responsible for that . |
| 11 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 12 | Emily , swimming vigorously , came to assist her , and together they managed to reach shallow water , where Gwendolen promptly denied she had been in danger . |
| 13 | A postmortem later revealed she had been strangled . |
| 14 | At first it was thought her death was an accident and she had been choked when her necklace snagged on branches , but a second post-mortem examination five days later revealed she had been murdered . |
| 15 | Lilis in New York also said she had been surprised by the findings . |
| 16 | Jacqueline would later say she had been an alcoholic since she was fourteen . |
| 17 | She let out the breath she had n't even realised she 'd been holding . |
| 18 | It was as though she 'd been let loose from shackles she had n't even known she 'd been wearing . |
| 19 | Linda Hardy , ( 43 ) — who was so badly beaten that police initially thought she had been shot — was this morning said to be ‘ critical but stable ’ in London 's Royal Free Hospital , which has a neurosurgical unit specialising in treating severe head injuries . |
| 20 | Masha : ‘ It 's perfectly possible for a woman to be responsive to a sexual advance and yet feel she has been compelled . |
| 21 | Well they sort of said that what , hopefully , she 'll like be there for a couple of days and she 'll never think she 's been anywhere else , she 'll think she 's been there all the time . |
| 22 | Lady Dawn Kennedy , 31 , was remanded in custody accused of falsely claiming she had been raped by three men . |