Example sentences of "she [vb past] [noun pl] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She spent hours unpicking her pre-war frocks in order to remake them for her daughter . |
| 2 | Before Gabriel acted for the first time , she spent hours brushing his hair and fluffing it out with a hazel twig into a frizzy golden cloud , quite indifferent to his squeaks and ouches . |
| 3 | She spent evenings assembling it in her own house and sending it out to midwives . |
| 4 | To her amazement she felt tears pricking her eyelids . |
| 5 | When Liddie returned home she had difficulties breastfeeding her baby and quickly gave up in favour of using a bottle . |
| 6 | When I arrived at Althorp the housekeeper , Joyce Cole , told me that she had orders banning me from touching anything in the house . |