Example sentences of "she did " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is seen to suffer for what she did , and Mary , the other sister , likewise ‘ paid heavily ’ : let down by an Indian student with whom she had been having a long affair . |
| 2 | We read that she intended , in Hamlet 's words , to ‘ leave betimes ’ , and that she did what she intended . |
| 3 | He was quite frank about the whole thing , told us H. had given him a fiver to turn up , asked Madge if she wanted to go through with it , which of course she did n't . |
| 4 | She did n't feel , etc . |
| 5 | Questions of Morality and Christian Virtue aside , she did n't really blame all the women Henry Phipps had conquered for succumbing to his wiles . |
| 6 | She did look unwell — her face was pale . |
| 7 | Marion Conroy was on stage until the final curtain calls and came up the stairs with the rest of the cast afterwards , observing as she did that Pepper went into his No. 2 and shut the door but that Cissy opened it and went in after him , the wide-eyed babyish stare that was the caricaturists ' joy quite absent . |
| 8 | She did n't understand . |
| 9 | Now that she was Claire could get any sillier , but she did . |
| 10 | She was probably so drugged she did n't struggle . |
| 11 | Anyway , there she was in her own room , and no call if she did n't want to open the door to anyone , not even her husband . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ But the fact is , she did . |
| 13 | ‘ If she did , ’ said Cook heavily . |
| 14 | ‘ Or if she did it was no further than the grounds . |
| 15 | ‘ When I took the tray in yesterday morning , ’ said Ethel , ‘ she did n't register a thing . ’ |
| 16 | Because carry on she did . |
| 17 | I expect he hoped to have as little as possible to do with her , but when she made a dead set at him , as she did at all young married men , that was no longer possible . |
| 18 | She was a plain woman with the apparent placidity of the overweight , but she did n't look as if she missed much . |
| 19 | ‘ They both insist that there was no way in which their hostess could have been poisoned before their very eyes — and both the parlourmaid and the cook swear that she did n't take anything afterwards . |
| 20 | And we have it on the authority of those sitting near her that she did not drink it that evening . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Chewing gum , ’ she informed Bridget , picking at it with her fingernails as she did so . |
| 22 | Usually her passion was an explosion of ecstasy , at a face , a voice , a mannerism ; usually she did nothing about it beyond engineering to spend time in The Presence . |
| 23 | She did n't feel up to a zealous dyke conversion . |
| 24 | She did n't look like she was there ; she knew she did n't want to be there . |
| 25 | She did n't look like she was there ; she knew she did n't want to be there . |
| 26 | She did routine office stuff for the rest of the day , and only re-read it at five . |
| 27 | She did n't . |
| 28 | Whether because they had ceased to be pleased about her birthday or simply because they were tired , she did not know . |
| 29 | She did dope all afternoon , spaced out to Nina Simone and Marvin Gaye — why was there no one better to wank to than Marvin Gaye ? — and decided : OK , LADY , IF WE 'RE WORKING , LET'S WORK ! |
| 30 | She had her introduction for the exhibition and Jay read it like she did n't know who 'd written it . |