Example sentences of "she [vb past] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sound system 's speakers were like upended steamer trunks , one on top of another ; standing so close , the volume gave her a sensation in her ears like that of tearing paper and she experienced a few moments of sensory overload before she recognised the tune as New York , New York . |
| 2 | She read a few lines , then made a face . |
| 3 | That girl who was in the elevator plunged on the ninth floor she plunged a thousand feet to the sub-basement or there 's massive big springs on it apparently , I read about it . |
| 4 | And now — ’ she made a typical high-jumpers ' gesture , that which marks them out from all other athletes , raising her arms and stretching her torso , as if taking off to challenge that dappled crossbar . |
| 5 | She made a few attempts and found that she could not work , she could not even read . |
| 6 | A DOG bit the top off Jayne Clark 's finger and ate it when she posted a Yellow Pages through a door . |
| 7 | In order to still his sexual passions Sir Frances took an unusual wife , what was unusual about her A , she was made of snow , B , she had no vagina , C , she lived a thousand miles away ? |
| 8 | Somebody told Evelyn they got a , she got a thousand pounds for slipping on pavement . |
| 9 | Her life has become intolerable , she says , ever since she became a social services ‘ project ’ . |
| 10 | She caught a few words but did not hear Fru Gertlinger say , ‘ It would be best to say nothing , I think . |
| 11 | She caught a few words : marsh , explosion , death . |
| 12 | Half-way down the boulevard she built a vast caravanserai which , before it was destroyed in 1857 , was regularly described by visitors to Delhi as the most magnificent building outside the fort . |
| 13 | As she stopped a few feet away from them she saw that his cap had been knocked some distance from where he lay and the force of the blow , which had thrown him through the air , had dislodged his fountain pen from his pocket . |
| 14 | She stopped a few feet away , so that she was hidden by the curtains , and fixed her gaze unblinkingly on the long black Mercedes that was heading sedately up the driveway . |
| 15 | I went back to Batty Langley , who considered the gardens she designed a thousand times better than Versailles . |
| 16 | She recognised a few faces from Amelia 's party , but most of the dead people were strangers . |
| 17 | She 'd a hundred times rather change last night 's husband on a daily basis , be reviled as a witch in the parliament of women , she 'd like to have dead babies in succession — she winced at this , ‘ Please , no ’ — but pressed on rather than be that nothing , that unbeing , that sump of ribaldry and pity and contempt , the woman-who-had-never-had-a man , the zitella , the old maid . |
| 18 | She caused a few titters when she said she 'd held the court in the church for the convenience of all parties . |
| 19 | Reaching it she climbed a few rungs and looked over the heads of the people and the cockpit where a double ring of candles hung low on iron chains from the rafters , spreading a brilliant pool of light . |
| 20 | And the very day we were with her she opened a new Citizens ' Advice Bureau in Beccles with considerable aplomb — no easy task after SHE fashion team had stunned the locals by setting up an ironing board in the middle of the town car park and giving Christine 's purple suit a quick press on the spot . |
| 21 | Talking all the time she opened a few cupboards , then got a tin out and fiddled around with it . |
| 22 | On leaving school , she spent a few years working in the British Transport Police . |
| 23 | So , when still playing , still marking time with the great drum strapped to his back and clashing the cymbals , still rattling the bells , and making the melody with his mouth organ , he began to half-dance , half-walk down the middle of the road , she followed a few paces behind and safely on the pavement . |
| 24 | She walked a few feet and stabbed at the earth with the fork . |
| 25 | She exchanged a few words with the shift supervisor , a dour Scot named Rachel McBride , and was told a message had been sent to Belial confirming their arrival and condition . |
| 26 | The door of the house opened , and she heard a few words exchanged between David and his grandmother . |
| 27 | She returned a few minutes later with an air of triumph , waving a folded map . |
| 28 | When she returned a few minutes later , the carrycot and child had gone . |
| 29 | She returned a few minutes later with an explanation that medicine was being prepared for me . |
| 30 | She returned a few minutes later and somewhat grudgingly led me into a little room at the back . |