Example sentences of "she [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ ACCESS HATCH ’ , she read embossed into a transparent panel , and , in smaller letters underneath , ‘ IN EMERGENCY , ENTER CODE 398 . ’
2 But how come she got invited by the Reagans … ?
3 The thought was distasteful but it continued to play on her mind as she got dressed in a pair of jeans and a flowered silk shirt .
4 ‘ So she got rid of every last one ? ’
5 Numb with agony and humiliation , she got undressed like a ghost and went to bed , unable to let herself dwell too deeply on what had happened in case she found herself asking the inevitable question : if I hate Damian Flint , why has he been able to hurt me so deeply ?
6 ‘ I was just telling you about this girl and what her mother said on the night before she got married to the sailor . ’
7 And erm at their wedding reception , they gave us erm , a trad local bottle of wine from the bar , erm , she got married in a bar and they , apparently they 've got vineyards there .
8 When she got married in a red wedding dress well oh dear me .
9 She became frightened by the effects .
10 In the week before the race , she became embroiled in a controversy over the skill of her opponent , the American Leigh Weiss , who had also steered international women 's crews but who was deemed not to know enough of the Boat Race course on London 's tideway .
11 Her anxiety about the visit disappeared once she became acclimatized to the appaling conditions confronting her .
12 She became known as the Chinese ‘ Green ’ leader .
13 Still staring at him , she became distracted by the dark hair that curled damply across his forehead , at the almost delicate arch of his eyebrows , the aquiline nose , the beautiful mouth , and then back to the bright , amused mockery in his blue , blue eyes .
14 She was aware that these could be developed by investigative work , but once she became immersed in the new curriculum , struggling on occasions to keep her head above water , she began to lose sight of these objectives , focusing instead on the more familiar content objectives .
15 Unsurprisingly , she became caught in the wires , but her owner had seen what had happened , and immediately raced to the rescue .
16 During and after World War I , she became associated with the Friends ' War Victims Relief Committee .
17 Miss Paula McCloskey , 26 , also injured her other leg when she became entangled in a mincing machine at the M U P factory in Richill , Co Armagh , in June , 1990 , the High Court in Belfast was told yesterday .
18 Just when the hero really needs the girl 's help , she stands revealed as a killer with a long history of leading enslaved men to destruction , a siren wrapped in furs and degeneracy , venom in her veins , murder in her mind …
19 Ran away with the blacksmith who beat her with his bellows if his dinner was n't ready on time , and now she lies buried underneath the spreading chestnut tree .
20 Following the welcome change in Kenya 's constitution towards a multi-party democracy , and in view of the unhappy news from Kenya yesterday of the repression of demonstrations in Nairobi , will the Minister not only advise that country on the international standards of multi-party democracy , which she has ennunciated from the Dispatch Box before , but suggest that , in order to disarm such demonstrations , it is time that the Government start a dialogue with the Opposition on both the timing and ground rules for an election ?
21 She has written to the Attorney General protesting that the courts have been too lenient on Dr Courtney and she has tabled a Parliamentary Question to Sir Nicholas designed to force a judicial review of the sentence .
22 Here I use her hypotheses as set out in her paper ‘ Some Mutual Interactions Between Organizations and Their Members ’ as well as others she has written on the same theme .
23 She has written on the relationship between jewellery and clothes in Jewellery ( 1984 ) and her most recent publication Ancestral Jewels ( André Deutsch , 1989 ) records historical pieces which are still in private hands .
24 She has written in the same magazine ( June 1987 ) on the Book of Exodus , warning that a reading of the Bible as literature , rather than as sacred text , ‘ can not lift heavenward ’ .
25 Then she sees Trotter 's purse lying open with the money she has cashed from the county welfare .
26 If she has ventured beyond the car it can mean only one thing — it 's stopped raining !
27 Mrs Browning , who looks weak and I believe has hardly moved from her room all winter , though she has ventured on a carriage trip or two since spring arrived , is excited by the promise Cavour has made to bring some statesmanship into this affair and hopes much from him .
28 Of course absence from school and periods in hospital have been a disadvantage to her , but she has survived as a cheerful and courageous person .
29 She has turned into a champion of the underdog , gone out on a limb to support unglamorous causes like AIDS victims , drug abusers and the mentally handicapped .
30 Unless she sees a local advertisement , she will have little knowledge of job opportunity and if she has moved into the district from elsewhere , she may have difficulty in assessing the employment prospects .
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