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 .
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