Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] she [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Julia 's pain seemed to have left her , and she lay seeming to drift in and out of sleep or unconsciousness , Anne could never be sure which , as she sat beside her , wiping her face , or tried to feed her with beef tea from a feeding cup . |
| 2 | He looked mulish now , with his hard-eyed expression that she dreaded , that seemed to treat her as nothing . |
| 3 | ‘ Florian is a colleague ! ’ she flared , trying to contend with the wrenching anguish that rose in response to the sexual jealousy that seemed to mock her with its similarity to the emotional sort . |
| 4 | What was it about him that seemed to knock her off balance this way , making her act so strangely out of character ? |
| 5 | She was usually so confident when dealing with even the most difficult of guests on the Day-to-Day programme , but there was just something about Luke Calder that seemed to throw her off balance . |
| 6 | She 'd felt a warmth go through her , as though he 'd reached out and touched her , an imaginary touch that had filled her with excitement . |
| 7 | The scene that had sent her on her journey . |
| 8 | His caresses had urged her to a wild , uninhibited passion she 'd never known she possessed — but it was the love she felt for him that had sent her into such a breathtaking completion . |
| 9 | But perhaps , by telling him of it she might break through the shell of quiet self-sufficiency and recollection that had kept her at bay since his return from Student Cross . |
| 10 | It had been a glimpse of Gentle , not so unlike the one she 'd just had , that had propelled her into her near-suicidal affair with him . |
| 11 | It was eight o'clock , and Folly was cursing the cowardice , or whatever it was , that had prevented her from discovering Luke 's number and ringing to refuse the invitation . |
| 12 | In fact , one of the things that had pleased her about her daughter staying in London was that it kept her away from Seaton Cramer Hall . |
| 13 | For Small , getting out the magazine that had absorbed her for two years was the commitment , not this eccentric lurch into the unknown . |
| 14 | He paid her a small allowance , as she , as a married woman , was no longer eligible for the grant that had supported her at university . |
| 15 | It was this , Blanche said , that had pushed her towards phoning his personal assistant and arranging the interview that night . |
| 16 | She recognised , however , that beneath Tamar 's apparently circumspect exterior still lurked the reckless and tempestuous streak that had characterised her in her youth . |
| 17 | She was grotesquely dressed in what I took to be nothing more than the two sheets that had covered her on the bench , clumsily knotted about her vast frame ; perhaps because of that , there was something poignant in those androgynous movements parodying grace . |
| 18 | Rage at her , at himself for wanting her , at a war that had turned her into his enemy . |
| 19 | She suddenly saw how selfish she had been , and knew at last the answer to the thing that had puzzled her for so long — why her mummy , who had been a keen Brownie Guider and loved Brownies , would n't let her join a Pack . |
| 20 | Double world light-middleweight champion , Diane Bell , showed no sign of the back injury that had sidelined her for the past month . |
| 21 | It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place . |
| 22 | A woman , leaning lightly on an ebony and silver cane , was rising slowly from the depths of the high-backed chair that had hidden her from view . |
| 23 | Lori seemed to shudder right through to her very bones ; then it was as if she had shaken off a darkness that had possessed her for too long . |
| 24 | The darkness that had possessed her at once scattered into light , and the joy that replaced it was too powerful to contain . |
| 25 | As they walked amidst the great trees , Ruth seemed to wake at last from the deadness that had possessed her since arriving in Andernesse . |
| 26 | A frown touched her brow to recall the feeling of unease that had gripped her during that brief conversation . |
| 27 | Mary was certain that it was the same estate-car that had swept her into the ditch . |
| 28 | Running back down the avenue , daffodil leaves yellowing on its verges , young beech leaves playing with the light overhead , Nicandra felt purged of the morning 's unfortunate happenings : of all of them except the thrust of horror that had pierced her before the death of a lamb . |
| 29 | ‘ Forgive me , ’ Alexandra said , feeling a recurring surge of the courage that had invaded her at Langley Dene , ‘ but I think — with respect , I think that everyone is making too much of my meeting Mr Swinton . |
| 30 | There had been anger as well at the cruel jest of fate that had brought her into love with her own brother . |