Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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31 | For a moment she 'd been on the verge of telling Penny why she was in such a hurry , but the moment passed , and she was glad she had n't given in to the impulse . |
32 | As she blacked out , she thought it was a pity she had n't gotten round to finishing the Christmas decorations . |
33 | She had n't come out with them . |
34 | She was not only married but trying to conceive a child by Stephen — though as yet she had n't sat down with him and discussed her worries about her failure to become pregnant . |
35 | Ushering her inside , he walked into his study and just as he was about to close the door she remembered she had n't settled up with him . |
36 | She had not gone back to whoring , but eked out a miserable living as a washerwoman , for which she lacked the stamina . |
37 | Mrs Allen 's body was found at her Harberton Park home on Tuesday morning after a senior officer at the Maze informed Banbridge police that she had not turned up for work . |
38 | She had not sat down to breakfast , preferring to eat a handful of dry Puffkins while she sought her shoes , nor did she utter any words of affectionate farewell , not being one for dissimulation . |
39 | A feeling she had not known in over a decade slipped through her body . |
40 | She had not looked in on the gallery this visit . |
41 | To keep herself from sleep she suspended herself ingeniously upon a large cross which hung in her room … and should this fail she attached her hair [ the one lock she had not shaved off to the nail in the feet of her Christ so that the least relaxation would inflict terrible suffering on her … |
42 | Annabel had talked so much to her parents about the beautiful girl with the long golden hair , and how she had openly stood up to Sister Mary , that it was decided to invite this child to have tea with the family . |
43 | Daniel had explained to her that he liked very simple food that he could eat with one hand , because of his inability to eat without reading , and so , for supper his first night , she had brought him scrambled egg on a piece of toast that she had already cut up into precise and helpful squares . |
44 | Although the PM had only recently arrived in Downing Street , she had already boned up on its history and as she led us round she spoke of Pitt and Walpole , Disraeli and Gladstone , and of their connection with this tapestry or picture or that room . |
45 | She had already fallen out with Sutton , who regarded computers with unconcealed loathing . |
46 | One day Mary asked her father for money for a pop concert which she had already booked up with a friend without consulting him . |
47 | But Main Line , an independent filmmaker , contended that it had reached an oral agreement with Basinger , a standard Hollywood handshake deal , and that she had later backed out of it . |
48 | And though it had struck her as a slightly odd remark for a man on the brink of marriage to make , she most probably would n't have thought any more about it if he had responded to the way she had light-heartedly picked up on it with his usual unassailable self-assurance . |
49 | She came to a point where she could see far over the town , she had instinctively gone up following the fleeing daylight , and the mist over there under a sky that was greyish and purplish and darkening again , became apparent because it was being lit up from those distant buildings and streets , the points of light vibrating through the moisture . |
50 | She looked as stunningly elegant , as poised and assured — because even her slight nervousness seemed professional — as if she had just stepped out of a cabine at Dior . |
51 | Lucy Lane arrived : in a green frock figured in black , dark hair expertly set , a shoulder bag matching her frock ; she looked as though she had just stepped out of her BMW runabout for a spot of window shopping . |
52 | She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute . |
53 | She corrected this idea by always wearing a hat , as though she had just looked in on her way to the garden . |
54 | Agnes had taken a smaller one ; she had just got back from her service 's registry . |
55 | She looked as if she had just got out of bed , and McLeish had a sudden vision of a dark basement flat with greasy mugs on every surface . |
56 | Her hair was black and thick and looked tangled , as though she had just got out of bed and not brushed it . |
57 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |
58 | She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk . |
59 | Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea . |
60 | She had just started out on her career as a free-lance photographer , with nothing but a little talent , a lot of determination and the best camera money could buy to help her make it . |