Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only once has he come close to losing his rag , when publicly embarrassed by his press secretary , Julie Hall , as she admitted giving the first name of the little girl at the centre of the health election broadcast row to the press . |
| 2 | She held the envelope to the light , squinting at it with one eye while she tried to read the first paragraph . |
| 3 | Was it because she 'd broken the seventh commandment ? |
| 4 | Had n't she thought she 'd seen the last of Rourke Deveraugh ? |
| 5 | She 'd tacked the first sketches for this picture up on the wall and they looked as if someone else had drawn them . |
| 6 | She really had thought she 'd heard the last of that voice . |
| 7 | When she 'd finished the second glass , he was still there , and still trying to catch her eye . |
| 8 | It was a lame apology , but as she plunged into the cooler shadow of the house she knew she 'd used the first excuse which sprang to mind . |
| 9 | Leith wondered , as she drove to work the next morning , why she had bothered getting the car out , since she was convinced that , his warning unheeded , Naylor Massingham would waste no time in getting her out of his business . |
| 10 | Sophie nodded as she finished examining the last one . |
| 11 | She began to undo the third shirt . |
| 12 | She may have misheard the word as dictated , but it 's much more likely that as she started writing the first syllable , she almost automatically shifted the word across to one she knows ( and can spell ! coffee causes problems , usually ) . |
| 13 | She had fulfilled the first part of the scenario . |
| 14 | Well , to hell with you , sweetheart , she railed , and , her pride once more up in arms , a certainty in her head that she had seen the last of Ven for that night , she rocketed from her bed , took a shower , and got dressed . |
| 15 | The walk there took only about ten minutes and she thought that even with the frightening weakness in her legs that she had discovered the first time she got out of bed she ought to manage that distance . |
| 16 | It was just the kind of chance she could n't miss , and if she had to miss the next flight home she was sure Lord C would understand . |
| 17 | Brown Owl , moving quickly , placed Brownie after Brownie in position , until she had formed the first human letter : — |
| 18 | She was n't scared , not even when she was half-way up the path , dark yews all around her , and heard the sound she had heard the first time . |
| 19 | She was wearing the coat with all the buttons and buckles that she had worn the first time I saw her outside Kaama 's flat . |
| 20 | ‘ Ay , ’ rejoined Mrs Beattie , realising she had lost the first round , ‘ I was just on my wey up to see Thomasina . ’ |
| 21 | Without realizing it , she had reached the Second Level . |
| 22 | When she told Hawk of her dream , he told her she had reached the First Level . |
| 23 | She had reached the Fifth Level , and she could no longer go back . |
| 24 | When the mask came off , she knew she had reached the Fourth Level . |
| 25 | Red-eyed and hollow inside , she was appalled when he told her she had reached the Third Level . |
| 26 | The recent spell of warm weather was holding and Julie Murchison was feeling good in spite of the fact that she had spent the last hour in her Mother 's sick room . |
| 27 | A woman told how she had spent the last fifteen years of her life ‘ allowing my husband to make choices for me ’ . |
| 28 | She had spent the last ten days in bed , suffering from shock , the after-reaction fierce , frightening . |
| 29 | Only when she was halfway there did she remember that this , after all , was n't Chipchester , where she had spent the last six months at college — nor even Athens , where at least the drivers and pedestrians expected to engage in constant warfare — and that perhaps she should have checked the traffic before crossing … |
| 30 | She had spent the last six months learning to help many such at St Sylvester 's . |