Example sentences of "she [verb] [be] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been here four days and it was high time she wrote to him . |
| 2 | She 'd been there two days and was running out of money . |
| 3 | She 'd been out ten minutes , fifteen at the most . |
| 4 | What she needed was just one person , one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her to understand the meaning of this extraordinary happening . |
| 5 | She had stayed in the cellar for what she thought was about three days and then realised that she had n't felt the vibration of gunfire for some time , perhaps a day and a night . |
| 6 | She had been just fifteen at the time , and had agreed with him heartily . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | An attractive young woman in her mid-twenties , she had been just one year away from her final examinations as a solicitor when , two years earlier , she had been rushed into hospital for an emergency appendectomy . |
| 9 | She had been here four days now , and , true to his word , Jonas had said nothing about Travis or the jade , which now stood in its rightful place in the display cabinet . |
| 10 | When she had been here three days a man had trailed up the stairs , let in by another tenant , hammering on her door . |
| 11 | When she had been about five he had come to stay , returning from Hong Kong and , like other wise men from the east , he came bearing gifts . |
| 12 | They were vague shadowy figures , rather like her own mother had been , except that she remembered them slightly better because , when she had been about eight years old , Granny Tremayne had driven her over to Newquay where they had been staying . |
| 13 | She had been well able to look after herself since she had been about seven , and , when she came to think about it , she knew herself to be more effective than most men . |
| 14 | She had been only 13 years old when the event occurred that shattered her world . |
| 15 | She had been only nineteen when the Second World War ended , and by the start of the nineties was the elder statesman in a cabinet which included several who had still been in nappies in 1945 . |
| 16 | But she had been only two years senior to Harriet . |
| 17 | But after she had been there three weeks , she was asked to make a house call . |
| 18 | No the highest she said is about fifty pee . |
| 19 | She 's been dead four years . |
| 20 | Well she 's probably tired , she 's been out two nights in a row . |
| 21 | Cos I say she 's been there thirty years so she must do alright , everybody knows |