Example sentences of "she [vb past] in [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 | She read anything ; she read in all directions . |
| 3 | she lived in that hotel . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She chucked in another handful and heard it rattling against the walls . |
| 7 | ‘ You believe me ? ’ she asked in some astonishment . |
| 8 | ‘ Going to Slane is funny ? ’ she asked in some bewilderment . |
| 9 | Successive Secretaries acknowledge the outstanding support she provided in that role . |
| 10 | She endured his company , that was all ; he told himself that she behaved in all ways like a young lady : it would not have been proper for her to show more feeling . |
| 11 | As she moved in that direction , she glanced into the kitchen and caught sight of the clock . |
| 12 | She had revelled in old-fashioned melodramatic stories in days gone by , and had a stock of these expressions which she used in all sincerity . |
| 13 | She found herself wondering painfully how she compared in that respect with this Sybil . |
| 14 | The last time she played in this competition she suffered a disastrous defeat and is keen to make amends . |
| 15 | ‘ There 's never been a great woman composer , ’ said my mother with an air of triumph , not because she delighted in this deficiency of her sex , but because she thought it percipient to have noticed . |
| 16 | After Millie had flounced away to do her bidding , Aggie said , ‘ She came in that yard as white as a sheet . |
| 17 | And she came in this day with these flowers and spoke to me and I did n't know who she was |
| 18 | And they grew when she told in another interview how she could live on prawns , salad and water , and found eating ‘ a drag ’ . |
| 19 | She turned in that direction even though it meant leaving the path . |
| 20 | She acted in many plays on the London stage but really gained fame as England 's first Hedda Gabler ( 1891 ) and as Hilda Wangel ( her favourite Ibsen part ) in The Master Builder ( 1893 ) . |
| 21 | However , Brenda 's turn is so constructed that it starts in London English with a statement about what happened , and switches to Creole at " cause " ( which could be London English or Creole ) — precisely the point where she begins her explanation of why she acted in this way . |
| 22 | She belonged in this stage set , among these lies . |
| 23 | Taking a deep breath and straightening her slumping shoulders , she pushed open the back door of the colonel 's house , and as she saw the dim light from the lounge spilling out into the hall she walked in that direction . |
| 24 | She worked in all weathers , ‘ pouring her paint on with tremendous freedom and power ’ . |
| 25 | Katherine Lundy operated in a world where deceit was accepted — indeed , expected , and she survived in this world because she herself had learned her lessons in one of the toughest schools of all — in the fire and revolution of Dublin before the " 16 Rising . |
| 26 | Abruptly she looked in another direction — somehow , she felt unsteady , as if everything was getting away from her ! |
| 27 | God alone knows what she saw in that brute . |
| 28 | Later as she lay in that bed , after she had eaten a meal in a small cheap cafe in New Oxford Street , she squirmed between sheets of a kind she had never seen before , purple knitted nylon . |
| 29 | What she said to me on the subject of the race riots and how she felt in that context makes me think that this stage in her life was nothing to do with race . |
| 30 | On that instant she put down her comb , and turned her back on her dressing-table mirror — and at the same time rejected any notion that she felt in any way excited . |