Example sentences of "she [adv] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernice suddenly found she badly needed a drink , but her hip flask was empty . |
| 2 | A week had passed without the offer of one single outside ride ; she badly needed a winner . |
| 3 | Without conscious thought she instinctively placed a hand on his arm . |
| 4 | On the other side of the room , an ancient dame was regarding Theda with a fixed stare while she slowly plied a fan before her face . |
| 5 | She successfully sought a venue for the meeting at the university and then called a phone-in Irish radio chat show to recruit support . |
| 6 | Inelligible for the Enterprise Allowance Scheme , and at 28 too old for the Prince 's Trust , she eventually got a grant from the Westminster Enterprise Agency . |
| 7 | She eventually articulated a philosophy which depended in large and explicit measure on repudiating what Conservatism had said about the role of the State for the past 30 years . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's like doing a jigsaw and making your own pieces up ’ , said Mrs Joel as she deftly removed a petal that was too large and replaced it with a smaller one . |
| 9 | ‘ After her parents died about a year apart she suddenly got a survival instinct which knew no boundaries at all because she had no longer had a family , ’ said Amanda . |
| 10 | With many oy-oys and oy-gevalts ( cries of woe ) she suddenly raised a forefinger , and said : |
| 11 | But she also needed to come to terms with the topsy-turviness of her situation that , while she wanted to spend every moment she could with Ven , she suddenly felt a need to be alone ! |
| 12 | She obviously had a flair for putting people in what suited them , not always true of designers . |
| 13 | In that role she annually presented a miniature . |
| 14 | To others she merely looked a bit different , and it lent her glamour , but to him , she was as different as anyone who was n't black . |
| 15 | When he rolled away from her , she idly pulled a frond of fern and stroked it down his cheek . |
| 16 | Every time , well she only got a pass . |
| 17 | She only got a pass . |
| 18 | She only knew a fraction of how it had been . |
| 19 | Well I think she only had a girl . |
| 20 | She was wearing a dressing-gown , but it was hanging open , and underneath she only had a négligé on , one of those flimsy things , I could see everything . |
| 21 | Now I can only remember one thing about it : a passage which refers to the death by starvation of a girl in Paris because she only had a pint of milk and a loaf of bread a day . |
| 22 | She prayed that the landlord of the Swan was right and that she only had a mile or two to cover . |
| 23 | But towards end when she only , she only had a pound to lose and she paid about six week on run to go to get weighed to tell her she was exactly same weight . |
| 24 | He just about could do , because as it turned out she only took a percentage , unlike the other two who got through the lot , but then Egan had more to leave hidden than Place . |
| 25 | And on the very day when she had woken up and decided to divorce him , to celebrate the fact that she finally had a life of her own ; a life which did n't include Julius Landor . |
| 26 | The house seemed to be an absolute maze of rooms , though , and it was several minutes before she finally opened a door that led into a surprisingly well-equipped kitchen . |
| 27 | Accordingly , she went on to play primarily on the Yiddish stage , where , with her impish manner and tiny build — her toes , she said , never reached the end of her stockings — she soon became a star . |
| 28 | The Irish National League asked her to witness evictions taking place in Donegal and she soon acquired a reputation as a charismatic force . |
| 29 | Despite these responsibilities , she soon established a reputation as an artist craftsman in her own right , through private tuition and membership of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society . |
| 30 | He said she was an avant-garde feminist who — when he first met her — was proud of the fact that she already had a child whose father no one knew . |