Example sentences of "she [vb past] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carol , aged 29 and a first-time mother , was induced just four days before her baby 's due date because she experienced a rise in her blood pressure . |
| 2 | She met a man in the Lady Chapel . |
| 3 | In meditation , she met a cigarette in human form , to understand what functions smoking was serving for her . |
| 4 | Elaine a retired civil servant who had worked all her life , felt she made a mistake in retiring at the same time as her friend Louise who had always opted out of the cooking and cleaning in favour of gardening and doing the decorating . |
| 5 | My shirts and nightwear were still " Annie Thompson " exclusives ( which was her maiden name ) and she would frequently scold herself when she made a mistake in her work and oddly I find that I do the same thing , even today , a sort of " pull your finger out Mahaddie " . |
| 6 | She made a note in her pad . |
| 7 | In 1968 she made a speech in Westminster at the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of the granting of votes to women . |
| 8 | ‘ Today is Thursday ’ Miss Matthews gave Melissa a sidelong glance as she inserted a key in the lock of Mrs Rogers ' front door . |
| 9 | She fell right into the trap , as she said : ‘ Yeah , she got a daughter in Vancouver General yesterday . |
| 10 | At 24 she got a job in charge of public relations on the remote Selinaish Isle of Bute . |
| 11 | After she left at 16 she got a job in a pub but became interested in nursing as a career , being taken on as a trainee student nurse three years later . |
| 12 | Anna became very active and efficient running charities and committees ; Constanza took a shift at a canteen , and after Italy was in the war she got a job in a ministry , real work , and she did it ; for what it was worth . |
| 13 | ‘ Can you imagine me as the First Lady ? ’ she asked a friend in 1962 . |
| 14 | In 1874 she became a lecturer in education , hygiene , and physiology , and vice-principal at the Bishop Otter College in Chichester . |
| 15 | Valerie taught languages in schools until 1964 when she became a Lecturer in the Department of Education at Keele University . |
| 16 | ‘ So she became a writer in English , but without Englishness presumably ? ’ asked my friend when we met again . |
| 17 | In the early Fifties she decided to branch out on her own ; she moved west and drove with her two children across America to Los Angeles , where she became a secretary in an aircraft factory and later a fashion buyer at J.C . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | She became a teacher in 1973 . |
| 20 | She became a JP in 1939 and an LCC Labour councillor in 1946 . |
| 21 | Confronted with data of the following sort , an extract from a private diary only intended to remind the elderly writer of how she passed a day in January 1982 , the discourse analyst may not be able to proceed very far in his analysis . |
| 22 | On June 11 , as she visited a hospice in Southport , Merseyside , the facade of bravery she had managed to sustain crumbled and she burst into tears . |
| 23 | Mrs Hopkins , who lives in Walsall , met the princess as she visited a hospital in West Bromwich , West Midlands . |
| 24 | ‘ She caught a fever in the village . |
| 25 | She caught a movement in the corner of her eye , and looked up . |
| 26 | This latest victory at the sunswept and showery Eastbourne was probably one of her most satisfying , not least because she defeated a player in the final who herself , did everything but win . |
| 27 | She hummed a song in her head . |
| 28 | She also attests that , though she found a friend in the painting tutor Colin Hayes , ‘ the warmth and heart of the school was John Minton whose compassion , sophistication and wit were immensely necessary ’ . |
| 29 | She found a knife in the cutlery drawer and set three places with cups , saucers , plates , knives , forks and spoons . |
| 30 | She found a coin in her pocket and paid for two glasses of lemonade , then drew the girl into a doorway away from the people . |