Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought she 'd just popped out of her house like to have her hair done . |
| 2 | Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox . |
| 3 | she 'd gone out , she 'd just slipped out with Alice for something |
| 4 | She 'd just walked in to the nearest doorway and spilled the whole thing to a complete stranger . |
| 5 | On hearing of the don 's disappearance , she 'd naturally rushed up to Oxford in the hope of tracking down her precious notes . |
| 6 | So I rang the midwife again , who decided she 'd better come over after all . |
| 7 | In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin-striped trouser-suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk . |
| 8 | The car 's headlights picked out a road sign and she swung slowly left on to the narrow lane indicated . |
| 9 | She felt utterly hemmed in by the panelled walls adorned with religious pictures , crucifixes , statues and ornate candlesticks . |
| 10 | She felt rather put out at Elizabeth 's going off like that . |
| 11 | Several times she felt almost caught up with the constant demands for her attention . |
| 12 | One she carried tightly rolled up in her hand ; the other she pinned inside her coat . |
| 13 | That afternoon , hearing him talk about his sister , then lying beneath the trees with him , she had really thought she had finally broken through to a real live human being beneath the glacial exterior . |
| 14 | They had wanted each other from that first night , and now , in this dimly lit room , with Nicolo 's mouth on hers , with his hands on her breasts , she had finally run out of lies and excuses , not just for him but for herself . |
| 15 | She had finally walked out on him and it had only been the intervention of Philpott that had brought them back together again . |
| 16 | Paige glanced up from the rock she had wearily sunk on to . |
| 17 | SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone . |
| 18 | He could be wild and crazy at times and she had n't faced up to the fact that the way he lived his life was doing him no good , no good at all . |
| 19 | After that she reckoned that if she had n't moved on to somewhere bigger , she 'd probably be stuck here forever reading out the latest sheep prices at six o'clock every morning . |
| 20 | She had been on the verge of hysteria then ; add to that a day of travelling , with him pushing Chalon as fast as the horse could go carrying a double weight , plus the previous day 's tensions , and it was a wonder she had n't given in to it . |
| 21 | For a moment she 'd been on the verge of telling Penny why she was in such a hurry , but the moment passed , and she was glad she had n't given in to the impulse . |
| 22 | As she blacked out , she thought it was a pity she had n't gotten round to finishing the Christmas decorations . |
| 23 | She had n't come out with them . |
| 24 | She was not only married but trying to conceive a child by Stephen — though as yet she had n't sat down with him and discussed her worries about her failure to become pregnant . |
| 25 | Ushering her inside , he walked into his study and just as he was about to close the door she remembered she had n't settled up with him . |
| 26 | She had not gone back to whoring , but eked out a miserable living as a washerwoman , for which she lacked the stamina . |
| 27 | Mrs Allen 's body was found at her Harberton Park home on Tuesday morning after a senior officer at the Maze informed Banbridge police that she had not turned up for work . |
| 28 | She had not sat down to breakfast , preferring to eat a handful of dry Puffkins while she sought her shoes , nor did she utter any words of affectionate farewell , not being one for dissimulation . |
| 29 | A feeling she had not known in over a decade slipped through her body . |
| 30 | She had not looked in on the gallery this visit . |