Example sentences of "she [vb past] be " in BNC.
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1 | The distaste she experienced was so intense that she felt dizzy for several seconds . |
2 | The surge of undefinable emotion she experienced was almost paralysing . |
3 | She admitted being a little nervous following Blind Date 's Cilla Black as TV 's second female game show host . |
4 | She admitted being the busty brunette who shouted at a man : ‘ Get a load of these ’ . |
5 | The only memorable ‘ in the round ’ person she met was her host 's eighty-year-old mother , quick , intelligent and agile with , moreover , a sense of humour . |
6 | The first person she met was the Manager of Managers , a man nearing retiring age . |
7 | With dark hair cut quite short so that it revealed his classically shaped head , a deep tan finished with some light freckles , piercing blue eyes and a mouth that was generous in laughter and very straight and sober when he was absorbed in work , he had become the standard against which any other man she met was measured … and fell short . |
8 | The celebrities she met were marvellous . |
9 | Anyway , the people she met were all in a hurry , striding along with heads down in the rain , and no one appeared to notice her . |
10 | Some of the carers she met were themselves disabled . |
11 | 33 year old Lesley who 's taking a'levels at Swindon College says the diary 's proved an invaluable record and the Romanians she met were intrigued . |
12 | The door at the far end of the room , which she presumed was his study , was still closed , but she could hear the muffled sound of his voice and — surprise , surprise ! — even the sound of a relaxed laugh . |
13 | But what she read was fluent enough . |
14 | The tousled girl in front of me , she was reading a buxom magazine : its text was in French , I think , but even I could tell that the article she scanned was about fellatio technique — blowjob knowhow . |
15 | In fact she and her friend Sophie Kimball spoke English all the time and the only thing she cultivated was her skiing . |
16 | She instructed them on what had happened and what she had done , and what she recommended be done next . |
17 | But in 1976 , when Jean Darnall gave me this advice , I knew exactly what she meant and I knew that what she recommended was exactly what I wanted to do . |
18 | Among the points she made were the need for care of children , the importance of supporting the NCH , which was doing such a wonderful job for children in need ; and the necessity of seeking out the fathers who abandon their children and making them pay maintenance . |
19 | However , any protest she made was far more likely to lose her friends then gain me any . |
20 | The noise she made was like a cry from hell , and James knew her suffering had turned this place into hell itself . |
21 | Whatever she made was done to suit her taste . |
22 | When Diana started to learn piano , any progress she made was always dwarfed by the achievements of her grandmother , Ruth , Lady Fermoy , who had performed at the Royal Albert Hall in front of the Queen Mother , and her sister Sarah who studied piano at a conservatoire in Vienna following her abrupt departure from West Heath . |
23 | One of the changes she made was to include a check in the action , abandoning what had become a ‘ bouncing ’ action , not through any fault in her father 's design but because the technique of those whose ‘ strength ’ knew ‘ no moderation ’ had superseded those whose playing was ‘ soft and melting ’ Between 1796 , when von Schönfeld used those words , and 1809 when Reichardt wrote his letter , the potential of the new instrument became generally accepted in Vienna . |
24 | The other decision she made was that , on the one-per-cent chance that it was n't a fool 's errand she was on , since it was uphill for most of the way and she did n't want to arrive hot and sticky , she would take a taxi up , and walk down . |
25 | His head , she realised was at an odd angle . |
26 | Asking directions as she went , she entered what she realised was Moira Russell 's office , when a woman in her early thirties , slim and immaculate , raised her head from what she was doing and enquired pleasantly , ‘ Miss Everett ? ’ |
27 | But , curiously giving her inordinate pleasure , ‘ I 'm in no great hurry , ’ he replied , with what she realised was a natural charm . |
28 | The rooms where she lived were damp , even while the brief summer had passed . |
29 | But she was an orphan , and the uncle and aunt with whom she lived were not at all well off . |
30 | The literal world which she inhabited was so plainly hostile that she seized with ardour upon any references to any other mode of being ; she came across few direct ones , in that suburban and industrial spot , so she had to make do with the oblique . |