Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] [det] [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 | So he made sure she failed on all counts . |
3 | Visitors were not welcomed upstairs , and if Mrs Bostock haughtily insisted on the sovereign nature of her companionship she met with little encouragement in that belief . |
4 | She sat facing me : calm , sympathetic , but at a distance I had no way of negotiating , as I listened dismayed to what she revealed of those islands , that lost continent . |
5 | She read anything ; she read in all directions . |
6 | Quickly , she put on her coat and hat , looking round fearfully as if she expected at any moment to feel Sikes ' heavy hand on her shoulder . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | She lived for many years , and preserved a record that she had been treated with Penicillium . |
9 | Because she lived against this woman . |
10 | she lived in that hotel . |
11 | She lived in Half Moon Crescent ( he had checked the number and the street before he 'd started out on his trek , so that even if Slater had lost or forgotten her number , she would not be lost to him ) . |
12 | It turned out that she lived in some place called Romford and as she was due to take me back there the day after the funeral I had only been left with a few hours to make a decision . |
13 | So she agreed to that bargain , and for a few days more kept the secret to herself , still hopeful that she might be mistaken , and yet at the same time aware of a feeling of inner triumph at the knowledge that she had her very own baby growing inside her womb . |
14 | She chucked in another handful and heard it rattling against the walls . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | I mean she got into this barley with us ; and there was some playing about . |
17 | She got over that feeling low ? |
18 | It was funny to hear Sir Bernard Ingham telling us on that delayed programme about the recession , which Samir Shah so bravely defended , that Mrs Thatcher was too nice to sack people ( bless you , Bernard , she got through more company than Sweeney Todd ) . |
19 | until she got onto that crossbar and then she just flew straight back and did exactly the same thing all over again and I just thought sod it ! |
20 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
21 | She rode out most afternoons and gradually built up a familiarity with most parts of the Lassiter lands . |
22 | She sat up with a start , blinking , to find the room full of electric light again , and her host occupied in turning off the lamps , his face streaked with oil and his black hair wildly untidy , but with an air of triumph about him which she registered with some amusement . |
23 | She asked for some answers to specific points . |
24 | Well , so long as no one tells Phena , everything should be all right , should n't it ? ’ she asked with more hope than expectation . |
25 | ‘ You believe me ? ’ she asked in some astonishment . |
26 | ‘ Going to Slane is funny ? ’ she asked in some bewilderment . |
27 | She succeeded to some extent when a most magnificent full-blossomed magnolia tree caught her eye . |
28 | She succeeded on both scores . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | Successive Secretaries acknowledge the outstanding support she provided in that role . |