Example sentences of "she [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Street a man named he had two sons and he had , he had to quote , give a contract for it , but he always used to do what they 'd call a workhouse feed , and it was a four pound loaf , when my father died mother did n't get a widow 's pension , what , what she got was two shillings for each lad , there 's four of us , that 's eight shillings and a four pound loaf for each lad |
| 2 | AFTER a total of 36 years ' service in the nuclear industry — during which she has been personal secretary to no fewer than three chairmen — Dorothy Ashurst has retired . |
| 3 | For some time she has been head dancer of a troupe and has travelled extensively abroad , taking part in cabaret on land and aboard cruise ships . |
| 4 | She has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Fribourg , Switzerland ; Natal , South Africa ; and La Trobe , Melbourne . |
| 5 | Oh , this is wrong , he reminded himself fiercely , when all she needs is mild affection and the ability to trust , and if I go too far it will only be to betray her again — or so she will think . |
| 6 | One example that she uses is Nazi Germany : |
| 7 | God knows where she 'd been last night . ’ |
| 8 | SHe 'd been entertaining Nathan in Tammuz 's office , messing with the computer . |
| 9 | While declaring undying love for me she 'd been busy making herself a small fortune giving kiss-and-tell interviews to some tabloid rag . ’ |
| 10 | She 'd been surprised Carol had offered to ice it , for Carol had never been domesticated . |
| 11 | Lary means mouthy or she 'd was lary clothes , loud clothes . |
| 12 | When Marian was first appointed as Circuit Judge nearly all the cases she heard were criminal cases but now her work is predominantly civil . |
| 13 | She was extremely wet and cold and the very last thing she needed was this man 's mockery . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd like to remind you that you 're in my house , ’ Alyssia pointed out , with what she thought was unassailable logic . |
| 15 | She must have slept , or drifted into unconsciousness again , for the next thing she knew was that Fen was shaking her , urgently , his voice rough with concern . |
| 16 | She had been six years old then and she had thought the fireworks the most beautiful sight in the world . |
| 17 | She did n't want to understand him , but heated recognition rippled through her as she stared at his mouth , as unwillingly fascinated by its sensual curve as she had been six years ago , when all her breathlessly adored heroes had suddenly become prosaic and petty with the advent of the man from Hong Kong . |
| 18 | Deirdre joined the literature committee in 1985 after the closure of Craiglockhart College of Education , where she had been principal lecturer in English , and so began a second career . |
| 19 | Only then did she fully realise that if she had been five minutes later the watchers keeping a lookout for a stray boy might , tomorrow , have been hauling ashore the sodden body of Gus Hambro . |
| 20 | This time she announced it was n't Mrs Brown 's four calling birds three French hens two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree she had been five gold rings . |
| 21 | What had Julius seen in the nineteen-year-old girl she had been five years ago that had made him want to grab her and marry her , without even really knowing her ? |
| 22 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 23 | Later , much later , Kelly was to reflect on how lucky she had been that day . |
| 24 | when she had been all hugs and trust for her father . |
| 25 | It was barely five a.m. and dawn was just breaking , but she was wide awake , as she had been all night long . |
| 26 | She had been eight years old and that was sixteen years ago . |
| 27 | Old enough to take care of himself , while she had been eight years old . |
| 28 | It was Marguerite as she had been many years ago , and Jenna saw what her father had seen , what she herself saw now — the attraction of kindness , of calm good humour . |
| 29 | She had been fiery Sally-Anne still , and then fiery McAllister , and a few moments ' loving from a man she loved had undone her , had brought her not joy , but a trauma of the remembered pain and anguish which Havvie had inflicted on her . |
| 30 | She had been second housemaid at Chesney Hall and Arthur Naulls had been under-gardener . |