Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The economic recovery has restored old fortunes far more significantly , ’ she admitted in this year 's State of the Nation address , ‘ than it has touched the lives of the vast majority of our people . ’ |
| 2 | For the media clamouring for every sensational scrap of information about Kylie — good or bad — the troubles she endured during this period were mass circulation manna from heaven . |
| 3 | Because she lived against this woman . |
| 4 | It seems she dressed herself up in the most provocative way possible when she got into this state and behaved like a caricature of the rich foreigner . |
| 5 | I mean she got into this barley with us ; and there was some playing about . |
| 6 | There is a local story that Queen Elizabeth spent a night here ; what is certain is that she passed on this road on her way from Burderop to Cirencester . |
| 7 | She concentrated on this problem so that she did not have to imagine the people themselves . |
| 8 | Although already gravely ill , she posed for this graduation picture just days before losing her battle against cancer . |
| 9 | She objected to this invasion of her personal space . |
| 10 | The last time she played in this competition she suffered a disastrous defeat and is keen to make amends . |
| 11 | Helen believed unshakeably in his genius and was determined to enable him to realize his potential as a writer — a poet , like Shelley , she believed at this rime — without sacrificing her own strong desire for freedom of independent action , untrammelled by the stuffy conventions of the elders she suspected of hypocrisy . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's never been a great woman composer , ’ said my mother with an air of triumph , not because she delighted in this deficiency of her sex , but because she thought it percipient to have noticed . |
| 13 | ‘ She came into this life knowing she was going to do something , to be and do something great , ’ she says . |
| 14 | Search the records and you will find she came into this world two years before me . |
| 15 | Eleanor Mary Milligan , as she was hastily christened the same week her mother was buried , seemed to know from the moment she came into this world at number 1015 Westfield Avenue that in order to survive she must be good and quiet , and not be any trouble to her father or brothers . |
| 16 | She remembered the things she had said since she came into this house . |
| 17 | As her father had so often complained , to engage with this task was to enter a labyrinth , and it seemed that whichever way she turned she came to this impasse . |
| 18 | And she came in this day with these flowers and spoke to me and I did n't know who she was |
| 19 | And then she hid inside this cow ! |
| 20 | But for some reason she forgot on this occasion and I did not stop to remind her . |
| 21 | However , Brenda 's turn is so constructed that it starts in London English with a statement about what happened , and switches to Creole at " cause " ( which could be London English or Creole ) — precisely the point where she begins her explanation of why she acted in this way . |
| 22 | She belonged in this stage set , among these lies . |
| 23 | She marvelled at this phenomenon , but was humbly grateful that her mind worked in this way . |
| 24 | And one of the sisters she said she started for this company did n't she . |
| 25 | She worked throughout this period , but it was here , she says , that she knew she had disassociated herself from the University too much . |
| 26 | Katherine Lundy operated in a world where deceit was accepted — indeed , expected , and she survived in this world because she herself had learned her lessons in one of the toughest schools of all — in the fire and revolution of Dublin before the " 16 Rising . |
| 27 | She brooded on this flower with a desiccating look . |
| 28 | Sara did not care to be beholden to Matthew Preston for even one pupil , but she knew at this moment she could not afford to be choosey . |
| 29 | She looked at this moment more terrifying than ever before . |
| 30 | As she advanced into this room full of teenagers , pretending not to smell the rich aroma of Acapulco Gold , gracefully rippling the caftan of pink flowered silk which she considered appropriately hip casual wear , the kids all stopped what they were doing and collected admiringly around her . |