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 .
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