Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Her love for Edward was constant and rocklike : she matured during these months , but she did not change . |
| 32 | She concentrated on this problem so that she did not have to imagine the people themselves . |
| 33 | She endured his company , that was all ; he told himself that she behaved in all ways like a young lady : it would not have been proper for her to show more feeling . |
| 34 | She moved to another part of the studio and started to turn over a number of stretched canvases , all of them blank . |
| 35 | As she moved in that direction , she glanced into the kitchen and caught sight of the clock . |
| 36 | Although already gravely ill , she posed for this graduation picture just days before losing her battle against cancer . |
| 37 | She objected to this invasion of her personal space . |
| 38 | She referred to some applications in London with which she is especially preoccupied . |
| 39 | It was , it was bad that she used to those draws that bad that after so long you 'd see him go all white and then you 'd gradually see round the crutch then so , more |
| 40 | Or had she just seen him one day , walking around the suburb where he had been born , and said to him , in that sharp voice she used for all commands : ‘ Marry Me ! ’ |
| 41 | She had revelled in old-fashioned melodramatic stories in days gone by , and had a stock of these expressions which she used in all sincerity . |
| 42 | So she scored on that line . |
| 43 | She found herself wondering painfully how she compared in that respect with this Sybil . |
| 44 | When she turned from painting to writing , she added to these gifts and to this training , two principles which might well be carved above the entrance door of every School of Journalism . |
| 45 | She added with more assurance that Beuno would also soon return from his walk to the waterfall , and then wondered aloud where the Molesworths were , because in a minute they would be late . |
| 46 | Catching Lucy 's expression , she added with more emphasis , ‘ Really , I will . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ Come to think of it , ’ she added with more interest , ‘ what do they use them for ? |
| 48 | Then , as though unable to keep her thoughts to herself , she added with more force , ‘ I must say you 've changed during the last three years . ’ |
| 49 | ‘ It will be talked to death for weeks ! ’ she added with another laugh . |
| 50 | Worst of all , one auxiliary , feeding a number of people , was going up and down the rows of bowls on bed-tables with one spoon which she filled from each person 's bowl and put into each person 's mouth before going onto someone else with the same spoon to repeat the process . |
| 51 | His mood seemed to have lightened now , she noted with some relief , and pondered , frowning , over his unexpected reaction to what must certainly be her normal other-life guise . |
| 52 | She played with such warmth . ’ |
| 53 | The last time she played in this competition she suffered a disastrous defeat and is keen to make amends . |
| 54 | He used to bring me flowers , but as you can see ’ — she gestured to some carnations on the table — ‘ that 's always happening . |
| 55 | Helen believed unshakeably in his genius and was determined to enable him to realize his potential as a writer — a poet , like Shelley , she believed at this rime — without sacrificing her own strong desire for freedom of independent action , untrammelled by the stuffy conventions of the elders she suspected of hypocrisy . |
| 56 | Suddenly , she yearned above all things to break into their home movie . |
| 57 | ‘ There 's never been a great woman composer , ’ said my mother with an air of triumph , not because she delighted in this deficiency of her sex , but because she thought it percipient to have noticed . |
| 58 | ‘ Too fantastic ! ’ she muttered after some thought . |
| 59 | There she studied for several months at the Académie Carmen with James McNeill Whistler [ q.v. ] , |
| 60 | A 1980 calendar hung on a wall ; she had kept it because she liked the picture : Manet 's " The Bar at the Folies-Bergère " She identified with that girl who stared out , trapped by bottles , tangerines , mirrors , the counter , a wall of people with ugly faces . |