Example sentences of "girl [pron] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl I had seen at dinner had seemed likeable in a cold kind of way . |
| 2 | So I wanted to see the girl I had worked with because she must have known what happened to my stuff . |
| 3 | It was the girl I 'd annoyed with my carelessness . |
| 4 | My problems were : I had a body in the bath right behind me , a girl I 'd known for less than twenty-four hours in a bed in the next room , I was staying in the house of somebody I 'd never met who was currently at a family wedding somewhere north of Karachi and somewhere down the yellow brick road I had to call the cops . |
| 5 | ‘ I knew a girl who got hooked on cocaine . |
| 6 | Spencer ignored Emily 's words and continued to gaze at the girl who had paused near the doorway . |
| 7 | For Jaq called to mind the fat , fussy majordomo and Lord Voronov-Vaux of the red vision — but not a bloodthirsty vision , and the great-eyed girl who had scampered from his bed , and all the survivors of the Genestealer uprising who had dolefully expected that their lives would at least continue after the disaster . |
| 8 | Although she felt like a little girl who had gone into the wrong party room , she was determined that this woman would not keep her away from her husband . |
| 9 | She had been a rosy , stocky little girl who had stared at him with a bright , vacant face , her finger in her mouth . |
| 10 | Giggling like a child , rueful self-mockery etched on every line of her face , she applauded when a shout went up , joined in the disappointed groans when it proved a false alarm , commiserated with a rather determined little girl who had wandered into her own area of search and who thought she should have found one by now , and , thoroughly amused , by herself as much as by others , she whole-heartedly entered into the spirit of the thing . |
| 11 | She looked into the eyes of this human peacock and found herself at a complete loss for words ; and he too seemed surprised by this girl who had agreed to be his bride : he looked up at her ( she was half a head taller than he ) in a way that she might have interpreted as hostile had she not been in too much of a turmoil herself to notice it . |
| 12 | Who was the girl who had slept in this bed , written her name on the wall , and then written her diary in the Bible , twenty-five years ago ? |
| 13 | It was the girl who had come with the policeman . |
| 14 | She was next in line to Lily , five years older than the girl who had come to Riverstown and had the whole world in her pocket , so far as Bernadette could see . |
| 15 | There was really very little to talk about , since they 'd seen each other at breakfast , so conversation became desultory once Irene had told Juliet about the other patients — the hysterectomies , the ovarian cyst as big as a football , and the girl who had come to be sterilised and was found to be pregnant . |
| 16 | By the time the girl who had rung in response to his advertisement had arrived on the scene , the horse was already bridled and saddled . |
| 17 | They were Ellen Oliver , a girl who had arrived from Plymouth , and a boy whose name would seem to differ in various reports . |
| 18 | That the little girl who had sat on her granny 's knee and smiled and laughed , would grow up to give herself to anyone and everyone who asked her ? |
| 19 | Despite the lines round her mouth and the flecks of grey in her hair , there was a bloom in her cheeks and her eyes shone like those of a girl who has fallen in love for the first time . |
| 20 | Elena returns to Rudby A sporting afternoon at Stokesley tomorrow will raise money for a four-year-old Lithuanian girl who has returned to this country for medical treatment . |
| 21 | After the initial wave of guilty surprise , finding that the beautiful girl she 'd seen at the market had been Roman 's younger sister , she 'd taken an immediate liking to Anneliese . |
| 22 | From an easygoing girl she had metamorphosed into someone who wanted the proverbial all-or-nothing relationship . |
| 23 | It is really nice and like , she 's the most gorgeous looking girl you 've seen in your life ! |
| 24 | The image did n't really spring into life , rather vague , figure behind glass , partly Julia , partly the girl he 'd met on holiday . |
| 25 | He visited them in Egypt , accompanied by a girl he 'd met in a bar , who proved to be a lesbian . |
| 26 | He said Oliver was extremely embarrassed , as well he might have been , because he was buying flowers to make his peace with a girl he 'd gone to bed with the night before and been impotent with . |
| 27 | See the girl he got married to now , she 's really lovely ! |
| 28 | What had happened to the girl he had fallen in love with ? |
| 29 | The girl he had fallen in love with was named Joan Templeman . |
| 30 | Just then Dexter 's friend came up — a white girl he had kept in contact with from his schooldays . |