Example sentences of "she [vb past] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because when Mamma was in Venice last year I think she met the same man . |
| 2 | Gloria never sunbathed as she thought it was ageing ; she applied the same effect out of a bottle . |
| 3 | She then swept the kitchen floor , knowing her aunt would wish this to be done , and as she swished the few crumbs into the dustpan she heard Silas moving furniture in the dining-room . |
| 4 | She had to search and destroy , scorch and defoliate , and she made the most of her one point of advantage , namely that I was a kept man . |
| 5 | She made the most of it . |
| 6 | Cramming her worn , out-moded bonnet on her head , she stuffed the few belongings she had unpacked back into the portmanteau . |
| 7 | Isobel said that , personally , she found the latter much easier , but that she felt that the former was , in every sense , her job . |
| 8 | Her resentment of Guy Sterne 's involvement with her family was somehow getting mixed up with a physical chemistry , she decided uneasily , and she found the latter far more confusing and unnerving . |
| 9 | She found the same curvilinear decoration in several other pieces , and delighted him by picking them out without hesitation from the precise and formal Roman artifacts round them . |
| 10 | She used the same lines over and over again , wearing a fixed smile on her face . |
| 11 | She had seen that instantly the next afternoon ; in Rachel 's eyes she recognised the same melting joy as she had seen in Lisa 's . |
| 12 | Although she was by now in her late thirties , she recognised the same symptoms as in her previous pregnancy . |
| 13 | With a stab of fear , she recognised the same lack of focus in Connor 's eyes , as if he were looking inwards instead of seeing the world about him . |
| 14 | He believed that and she believed the same of him , and now … ? |
| 15 | She telephoned police and as she waited for them to arrive she noticed the same youths approach a man with two young children and drench one of the children . |
| 16 | Misfortune struck Sir John when his second wife died ; she received the same treatment as his first spouse . |
| 17 | She seemed the same as ever as she closed in on him with that unfortunate overbearing manner , except that today there was an almost wild look about her as she burst out , ‘ I felt I had to come , Freddie . |
| 18 | She told the former : |
| 19 | An officer , she has worked since 1987 in Northern Bank , Strabane , the town where she joined the former Belfast Banking Co . |
| 20 | Unknown to them , she had been one of Tiller 's favourite leading ladies around 1906 , but when the work offers stopped she faced the same bleak future confronting all dancers who feel too old to dance . |
| 21 | During the course of the next year , she expressed the same view each time I saw her . |
| 22 | Yet both Rosie and Victoria had warned her against letting herself fall for him , in case she followed the same fate as his other nurses . |
| 23 | They began to bark as she walked the few yards to his front door . |
| 24 | When he turned to look at her with some compassion , she walked the few steps that kept them apart and , staring at him with desperate eyes , insisted , ‘ That woman in the docks … it was her , was n't it ? |
| 25 | She walked the few steps towards him , her legs shaking like a toddler 's , and stood in front of him , waiting . |
| 26 | The fact that she addressed the latter formally , as lady Anne , was the one concession to rank and status — and even that was frequently disregarded when the girls were alone … |
| 27 | Limping slightly , she entered the lift , far more disturbed by the weight of Rune 's arm around her waist than the quickly diminishing pain in her ankle , but unwilling to dispense with the former in case she exacerbated the latter . |
| 28 | Allowing herself a small triumphant smile , she started the same process on the right boot . |
| 29 | Looking up to the blue sky , she watched the many birds flying overhead , chattering and screaming as they passed out of sight . |
| 30 | She named the same two hand-maids who had been with me on my first visit . |