Example sentences of "she [adv] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She already had a couple of good ideas . |
| 32 | The daughter of the outspoken romantic novelist Barbara Cartland , she already had a half page entry in Who 's Who before she met Johnnie Spencer . |
| 33 | ALTHOUGH LIVING IN WALLINGTON SHE ALREADY HAD A SENSE OF HER ROOTS IN WALES . |
| 34 | Maybe she went in for officers , or maybe , he realized , she already had a boyfriend . |
| 35 | I says two of them , now I 'm being she already had a dinner |
| 36 | He saw her shoulders shift , and she unconsciously raised a hand to undo the buttons of the bodice of the dark pelisse she still wore over an equally dark gown , the top of which was now revealed , made high to the throat . |
| 37 | She desperately wanted a child . |
| 38 | She desperately needed a liver and bowel transplant . |
| 39 | She generously donated a seat in the memory of our late and much loved Chancellor , Sir Monty Finniston . |
| 40 | was getting really cross and was beginning to call the police over she just produced a card and they just throw it and said this means nothing to me , this means nothing to me , cover your head and she just laughed at them and walked away , but he , he pounced on a Filipino girl who was actually wearing jeans , and socks and said her jeans were too short |
| 41 | She turned up and she was absolutely wonderful She just had a kind of visual imagination that most people do n't have and she had the ideas even though she did n't have any teaching techniques or anything . |
| 42 | But it was pleasant to feel safe and looked-after , and another nice thing was that nobody remarked on , or even appeared to notice my absence of rings — except the Matron , who was inclined to toss her head a bit as she passed me , but perhaps she just had a tic . |
| 43 | She di na she just said a bed , and so |
| 44 | She just said a bed , so I told her there were special beds that we are very useful in fact very necessary in cases and we tend to be short of them |
| 45 | She just left a message on the phone . |
| 46 | Eventually , she just played a cameo role and Suzanne Danielle was the very femme fatale . ) |
| 47 | She said this stiffly , not wanting to be accused of bragging — something else that had happened to her when she was a child , and she just stated a fact , or answered a question . |
| 48 | ‘ She just wanted a job . |
| 49 | It rolled in her fingers , but she quickly got a hold on it . |
| 50 | As she quickly packed a bag before preparing dinner , it suddenly struck her what a risk she was taking . |
| 51 | She always took a bit of bread . |
| 52 | When she went to the doctor for time off work , she always got a morning appointment and missed out coffee and cigarettes . |
| 53 | She always felt a failure , not being able to have a baby of her own . |
| 54 | ‘ Ireland was in the heart of her heart , ’ said Sir Michael E. Sadler [ q.v. ] , and she always felt a touch of the exile 's longing . |
| 55 | All the managers knew that Karen was on the Committee because she always had a notebook in her hand . |
| 56 | Either because she was at the bottom end of the family , or because she always had a book to study . |
| 57 | She always had a sugar daddy . |
| 58 | She always had a cigarette in her right hand , and her right hand was covered in rings . |
| 59 | ‘ But she always bought a ticket through an agency and she always wanted to come anonymously , ’ says Sir Peter . |
| 60 | ‘ She always wanted a dog but Mum — Mother would n't let her have one . |