Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police and ambulancemen who rushed to Birmingham 's New Street station expected to find she had been killed . |
| 2 | Attracted to the big ape she had n't been , but she 'd be an all-out liar if she tried to pretend she had n't enjoyed his kisses . |
| 3 | She tried to pretend she did n't know what he meant , but his bantering tone had been deceptive . |
| 4 | They tried to see she did n't feel left out but Jean is very shy and sensitive . |
| 5 | She tried to remember she had thought Robert pleasing once . |
| 6 | She had no idea what he meant , and if she tried to answer she knew she 'd only cry . |
| 7 | The TV commentator was excitedly describing the drama , but although she strained to hear she could not pick out the name of the victim . |
| 8 | Harbury gaped to hear she had told the editor . |
| 9 | When he stopped speaking she said , ‘ What can I do for you , sir , in the way of cigarettes , tobacco ? ’ |
| 10 | With a mental shrug she tried to ensure she kept up , knowing that nothing irritated him more than to be kept waiting even a second when he was in this mood . |
| 11 | Oh Donna phoned did she ? |
| 12 | So she helped Did she help with the childbirth as well ? |
| 13 | I says you 've just wasted it , er tried to say she had n't had it like , yeah I I 'm not in turn it off you been hospital ? |
| 14 | I loaded them on , and when she tried to push she found out she 'd got a trolley with a wonky wheel . |
| 15 | With the work on the campaign and the success we 'd heard she 'd had with it , would she find me too limited when I got out ? |
| 16 | ‘ If I 'd realised she was a taig I 'd never have hired her . ’ |
| 17 | But the moment she 'd said it she 'd realised she meant it . |
| 18 | In fact , it was a long time since she 'd realised she was capable of such an emotion . |
| 19 | to get up to the thirty five mile an hour you got ta go through all the five gears so you 're forever pa going like that erm and that made it worse so that last fortnight she has n't been on the bike and that last weekend when she went out she went because we was busy , she got her bike out and she went up to work one or two of her mates and then come home she said she 'd wished she had n't of gone up |
| 20 | ‘ One dress was called ‘ Dying Embers ’ after a lady at a fancy dress party who 'd claimed she was dressed as dying embers — and if someone did n't poke her soon she was going home ! |
| 21 | But it explained the numbers that did n't add up — though not why Brigitte Schickert was shown on her certificate as having died in Dornhausen when everybody seemed to know she had been taken to hospital . |
| 22 | Matter of fact , I 'd forgotten she was going to be in the bloody country until she turned up . |
| 23 | In fact she 'd forgotten she 'd put it there . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd forgotten she ever existed . ’ |
| 25 | He turned to look at her , almost as if he 'd forgotten she was there . |
| 26 | Maggie thought of John McNair whom Laura had met in Glasgow when she 'd gone to work there , when she 'd decided she wanted to leave home and broaden her horizons . |
| 27 | ‘ By then I think she 'd decided she might as well continue . |
| 28 | But she respected what she did not know : when Richard came to visit she always made elaborate — and sometimes embarrassing — excuses to leave us alone together . |
| 29 | Maggie scrounged what food she could , and when Sarah dipped a crust of bread in the cabbage soup she 'd made she could see the cracks in the bottom of the dish through the thin liquid . |
| 30 | I finally spotted a young man and a girl dressed as she 'd said she would be in shalwar kameez , a short tunic over long trousers , the traditional Muslim attire ; a cool white scarf around her head and a long coat , and luckily it was Yasmin . |