Example sentences of "she [vb past] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | Devotedly Meredith , she experienced such a choking sensation of jealousy — she thought it must be like parachuting from an aeroplane , in that she could n't breath and the world dropped away — that she scrumpled up both scraps of paper and flung them into the metal basket beneath the counter . |
| 2 | She even considered a discreet retreat to her own lair , but recognised that she lacked such disinterested nobility . |
| 3 | She made such a good recovery she was allowed home after just five weeks . |
| 4 | Mary Ann was blind during the last few years of her life , and it had the quite understandable effect of making her very emotional ; she only had one set of grandchildren , and she made such a fuss of them : ‘ My Siddy ’ , she would say , as she stroked her young grandson 's cheek with tears in her eyes . |
| 5 | ‘ She was in school uniform but she made such an impact on me I nearly burst my tyres driving along the pavement , ’ Sarah says . |
| 6 | And wondered why she made such fatuous comments and why he did n't appear to notice . |
| 7 | It was n't every day she got such a good-looking patient . |
| 8 | As she turned over on to her back she dismissed such mundane things as guttering and went over the words on Leo 's note . |
| 9 | She cast such thoughts from her . |
| 10 | Exiling the author to Siberia , she pronounced such sedition ‘ worse than Pugachev ’ . |
| 11 | Miss Glover , in one of her few interventions , said warmly that she believed such things could and did happen . |
| 12 | Sometimes she seemed such a gullible innocent , sometimes she was an infuriating harridan , sometimes a malevolent witch . |
| 13 | She bit her lip and knew that she deserved such punishment . |
| 14 | She disregarded such things altogether , rather relished them , in fact ; and she must have been very strong , because I never knew her to show any weakness , nor to be other than her usual cheerful , robust-spirited self . |
| 15 | ‘ The biggest mystery is why she gave up photography , at which she showed such flair , in 1923 , ’ says Sue . |
| 16 | In the early hours of 9 April 1989 she developed such an attack . |
| 17 | It would be hard to bear and she dreaded such a letter because it might disturb her wonderful composure . |
| 18 | Well I had that with this little locum , but er , a South African , did n't feel a thing , mind you a lot of fillings came out thought just had to go back and have it put in again , but she drilled such a small whole that , that , the dentist I saw , another nice young man , cos my dentist had gone , she 's re-filled it , and going to be alright because her fillings out and it was a bit rough , they did n't sort of goes inwards sort of |
| 19 | She took such a keen interest in politics , in literature , and the various lives of her children , grandchildren and great-grandchildren . |
| 20 | That is why , Kathleen told herself , she took such pleasure in packing up the parcels . |
| 21 | She took such an avid interest in all that her daughter was doing that it became stressful . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm surprised she took such pills at all . |
| 23 | This she protested against very strongly , on the ground that she had known many missed and some murdered who essayed to travel round that way in the night ; not that she thought such dark deeds as robbery would be perpetrated by any of the islanders , ‘ But you see , sir , the island is very near the sea , and all sorts of men are sailing round about , an ’ when they 've spent all their own earnings on drink , it 's hard to know what they 'll no' do to try and get more . ’ |
| 24 | She thought such a possibility unlikely , but she was feeling perverse . |
| 25 | Indeed not ten years old she knew such words ( and the meaning ) as larynx and spleen and rigor mortis . |
| 26 | Apart from the need to preserve some semblance of pride , she knew such a retreat would cause her to lose her hold on the blankets . |
| 27 | He lowered his head , kissing her angrily , and she fought him , struggling beneath him as he kept her trapped , even though she offered such resistance to what he knew so deeply she had wanted from the beginning . |
| 28 | It was a shame that she looked such a mess — this was hardly the best way to meet a prospective client — but once she 'd explained her predicament … well , then everything would be all right . |
| 29 | But looking up at Ilbrec she saw such a heartbroken sorrow that without a word she let him stoop and take Fand from her . |
| 30 | As she looked up at him she saw such tenderness , such deep love in his eyes that her own filled with tears . |