Example sentences of "she [vb past] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she admitted that in the aftermath of the collision on Borough Road , Birkenhead she had feared the worst . |
| 2 | I admit they will find that something of a puzzle , but given the low critical standards of provincial audiences , they might hit upon the felicitous conclusion that she choked while in the midst of an exaggeratedly hilarious response to that pathetic farce . |
| 3 | But it did make a difference — she realized that in the long hours she lay awake thinking about it . |
| 4 | The intensity of Käthè Kollwitz ‘ representations of the poor , the grieving , and the anger has rendered problematic the interpretation of the objects which she produced and of the subjects under her scrutiny . |
| 5 | She found that in the time allowed four-fifths of the adult pairs conversed , looked or smiled at each other . |
| 6 | She found that in the boys ' peer group , powerful members used direct imperatives like ‘ gim me ’ and ‘ get off ’ . |
| 7 | He should n't be in her thoughts at all , and yet she found that in the short space of time since she had met him he had sunk in , wormed his way into her mind with his disturbing home truths . |
| 8 | I remember in my young days — ’ She stopped and for a moment they sat quietly , both thinking of past Christmases when their parents and grandparents had been alive . |
| 9 | Hotspur had promised her a fair deliverance , vouching for the prince no less than for himself , and in his promise she believed as in the mass . |
| 10 | She recalled that as a young girl she 'd often sucked slowly at a big lollipop to see how long she could make it last . |
| 11 | Tears stung her eyes , and she turned as from an unbearable sight to vanish back into the garden outside . |
| 12 | They must have talked long and hard about their future , and from now on Helen believed that other people would probably regard them as being ‘ engaged ’ — a term she hated because of the overtones of male dominance and female sexual ignorance that went with it . |
| 13 | So , it was argued , she was mistaken as to the essential character of the document she signed and of the transaction which it effected . |
| 14 | She refused me the pavillon for a while because she discovered that in the evenings I met friends in town . |
| 15 | But already she sensed that in the end she would . |
| 16 | A porter had already been up to the suite with their luggage , she noted , as she observed that off the sitting-room — with French windows to a balcony between — were two other doors . |
| 17 | As she plodded through her notes she decided that at the end of the month she would hand in her notice , and on the day she left she would brandish Elise 's diary before his eyes . |
| 18 | Leaving the bandstand , and heading for the gate at the summons of the park-keeper 's doleful bell , she decided that like the rest of Brickley , it exuded the odour of decay , hopelessness , regret . |
| 19 | The expenses which were deducted before any payment was made to her were incurred not by anybody she employed but by the trustees whom the truster had appointed to manage his estate and whom he had directed to pay all necessary charges of administration before any division took place . |
| 20 | She phrased that as a question , out of respect for etiquette . |
| 21 | She knew that as a Deacon she was still an uncommon enough phenomenon in the Church to evoke curiosity . |
| 22 | She had read of Cupid , the little god of love , and of his wicked darts piercing the heart at the moment of understood love , and she had laughed a little at the idea ; but one of them had struck home at last , and she knew that on the two previous occasions when she had previously and disastrously thought herself in love it had not been love at all … |
| 23 | She knew that in a couple of days ' time Boyd 's promotion would be announced by his company in the newspaper , underneath a studio portrait of him , and she held her head high as she swayed gracefully into the living-room . |
| 24 | So she knew that in the few years since she had last been in England great changes had begun to take place from some of which she might clearly benefit . |
| 25 | Going out to tea always seemed to her a waste of time , but to refuse might have seemed churlish , and she knew that in the country one ought to be friends with one 's neighbours . |
| 26 | She knew that in the end he would come . |
| 27 | She could n't defend herself without rousing him to greater ferocity ; she knew that in the moment of conflict , an enemy can never protest to be a friend and be believed ; she had seen the distrust Kit 's sudden switches of mood inspired . |
| 28 | With a sigh she knew that in the morning when the people returned they would bring with them the rivalries and ill-feeling that had spoiled everything . |
| 29 | But she knew that in the last resort that if he did win that I would do it but he 's he 's paid off now . |
| 30 | But she knew that in the last resort if he did I would do it , but he 's , he 's paid off now as soon as he 'd paid off he went on the dole again |