Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] she [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diana has never been close to the Princess Royal , and demonstrated that she now has no intention of pretending otherwise . |
| 2 | She found that she gradually became prone to weight gain and as a result experimented with several different diets . |
| 3 | And yesterday the princess 's lower lip trembled and she nervously turned away as Sebastian sang the poignant opening lines of the 1989 hit , Right Here Waiting For You . |
| 4 | She moved but she still kept glancing about . |
| 5 | Deeper and deeper Ruth sank till she nearly leapt out of the hired Suzuki at the gates and fled into the forest never to emerge again . |
| 6 | Terry exclaimed as she hastily opened cupboards and showed Ellie where everything was . |
| 7 | When she told her friends about it ( ‘ My dears , he took a garden vegetable and changed it into a bird in front of my eyes ! ’ ) , her friends realized that she also had a wonderful imagination . |
| 8 | He realized that she already had fans , but the others were almost certainly complete wankers . |
| 9 | her lips curled in a smile , and Patrick wondered if she knew what effect she was having on him — and then realized that she probably did . |
| 10 | When she looked up the mountainside , as if searching for help there , I realized that she still had fear of me , little knowing the true state of affairs , and felt herself like an animal in a trap . |
| 11 | Yet she realised that she also had a strong need for security . |
| 12 | I suddenly realised that she really did n't want to lose me . |
| 13 | Later , as she walked slowly downstairs , only a light blue silk dressing-gown over her skin , which was still warm and fragrant from the bath oil , Laura realised that she really did n't want to watch any television . |
| 14 | I went out and bought a remedy , thinking it was an infection , but when I got home I realised that she actually had a piece of red coloured gravel stuck inside her mouth , so that she could n't close it properly . |
| 15 | She realised that she still had fifteen minutes before the meeting was due to start and on an impulse she rang Paul . |
| 16 | His grandmother had slumped into a heap but when Asik tried to lift her head he realised that she too had died . |
| 17 | After all the waiting for him he was here so unexpectedly , and she admitted that she simply wanted to look at him . |
| 18 | Helen admitted that she rarely wears much make-up in the evening , apart from a little gold eyeshadow , blusher and lipstick . |
| 19 | Now she was a young widow , dignified but vulnerable , busy but not tastelessly careerist ; she believed that she always put her family first . |
| 20 | She added that she never saw the suspected occupants of the house . |
| 21 | She wondered what her father and brothers were doing at that moment , and pictured Niall and Roger riding in through the castle gate with more stories of escapades , cattle raids , skirmishes , pranks and hunting expeditions ; and so vividly could she imagine them that it seemed that she actually heard their voices , saw their red-cheeked smiles , and smelt the leather of their boots and the steam from their bodies when they came into the big kitchen at the end of a day . |
| 22 | At first , especially when she divulged that she was recovering from a nervous breakdown , I assumed that she merely desired a consoling chat with her sister 's old tutor . ’ |
| 23 | She was worried that she would n't have an accurate idea of what she ate if she just picked and nibbled . |
| 24 | ‘ I have brought you a brandy , ’ he added when she just sat there with the towel completely over her head . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , ’ she muttered as she deliberately refused to even consider the implications of his statement , of that strong body being in a wheelchair , diminished , the arrogance dimmed . |
| 26 | I says , well , I says , I was reading a book and an old wifey that lived up at and she was about ninety six , and this chap that was interviewing her , well he would n't be interviewing her but he said she sat by the fire and she hostied and clochered until she nearly spewed . |
| 27 | ‘ Someone on the set who did n't know her asked if she really had been ill recently and I said no , she 's actually quite young and looks amazing underneath all that . |
| 28 | I would hate to find myself part of any anti-Diana conspiracy , but it did cross my mind that some of her critics were right when they claimed that she deliberately sought to dominate family photographs . |
| 29 | On the whole she reckoned that she probably did . |
| 30 | Something happened and she just said it , then she hit me and I had to hit her back . |