Example sentences of "[vb past] she [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 Bernice suddenly found she badly needed a drink , but her hip flask was empty .
2 However well she did , however hard she tried she never earned a word of praise from her husband , the royal family or their courtiers .
3 Her sight cleared slowly , and she saw she too wore a green cloak .
4 For the first time since she iced her Dad , Jazzbeaux felt she really had a purpose on this dull earth .
5 Liz 's education was to take more than three years : she had already decided to specialize in psychiatry , and knew she still had a long journey ahead of her .
6 I knew she now had a boyfriend .
7 But did she really use a potty at night , keeping it in a cupboard by her bed ?
8 Did she really have a two-storey house ? he wanted to know .
9 But only once in her life had she willingly allowed a man to break through her protective barriers , and the pain still smarted .
10 In no other household had she ever seen a slop basin , and she hated to see an eccentricity erected into a symbol of the traditionally correct .
11 Had she really killed a young boy while sleeping ?
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