Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had quite expected him to stop the car on the way home and make a grab at her and she was all prepared to cope with it , had her little speech ready about what a wonderful evening she 'd had but at the moment she was concentrating on her career and did n't really want to waste time on that kind of thing . |
| 2 | For she 'd literally been shaken to her roots when the clothing firm she 'd worked for for the past six and a half years had collapsed , making the entire work-force redundant . |
| 3 | She could not help them , so she began to hate than for the waste they brought into the hospital . |
| 4 | She started to read and for a moment lost her rigid self-consciousness in admiring delight at her own writing , its clarity and generosity . |
| 5 | She had conquered that by an effort of the will which had once been almost her enemy , so strong was it , but had , in enabling her to live calmly among so many enemies in male form , become her friend . |
| 6 | And having confided in her , she discussed her troubles with Don Burrell , the Canadian with whom she had stayed when on a school exchange to the States and who had been like a second father since the death of her own . |
| 7 | She mentally steeled herself for the long evening ahead , but , as it turned out , it was n't nearly as long as she had anticipated because towards the end of the evening she heard a sharp knocking on the door , and opened it to find André standing outside , a huge bunch of flowers in his arms . |
| 8 | He could tell , from the way she had hesitated and from the smile she had given . |