Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she felt a little guilty about letting him do it Sally found she quite liked the feel of his fingers stroking her flesh and teasing her nipples but when he tried to put his hand up her skirt beneath her scratchy petticoats she tried to stop him . |
| 2 | Sometimes both came together : very few of our sample lived as far out of town as the mining village of Gilmerton , but one woman compositor who did was the daughter of a miner and in due course she married a miner herself . |
| 3 | In due course she would dispose of it , but not just yet . |
| 4 | A serving-man , sent to the kitchens , reported that they were already busy , having had their instructions , and in due course she and the women attending her ate where they were , in the chamber . |
| 5 | Of course she could n't leave Henrietta alone in the house , the tall building she had bought with great-aunt Dorothy 's money . |
| 6 | Cos they looked really nice with that jumper she wears . |
| 7 | She could have suggested that it was none of his business , or have made an excuse that she 'd forgotten to put it on , but , wits scattered , with her usual honesty she blurted out the exact truth . |
| 8 | The denuded chest she pushed against a wall . |
| 9 | His face wore that concentrated look she had grown used to , as if everything he did was the focus of all his energies — like the look when he 'd taken her in his arms and made his kiss seem the still point of the entire universe . |
| 10 | And for eight hours she devoted herself to sufferers and staff — smiling , chatting and listening . |
| 11 | Within eight hours she had developed central abdominal pain , vomiting , and distension . |
| 12 | Walking towards the station , having promised to bring back with her all sorts of expensive food items Tina had requested from Selfridges ' Food Hall , Cecilia thought how much she liked living on her own and that at seventy-six she was too old to have Jasper and Bienvida running around her , fond of them as she was , not to mention Tina 's boyfriends and the odd hours she kept and her lying in bed till noon . |
| 13 | After she had finished midwifery and two years as a Benedict 's junior sister she had joined the Royal Navy as a nursing sister for a few years . |
| 14 | That noise she had heard , that deep , sighing breath ! |
| 15 | She accepted , and the picture of precocious , and faintly absurd depravity she presented , in her old , handed down dressing-gown , with her feet tucked up under her , her lank auburn hair about her face , and the cigarette cocked flamboyantly between the fingers of her left hand , gave him the keenest pleasure . |
| 16 | That very quick grey shy look she puts on , like a little lance . |
| 17 | In that look she saw her life with him and it was a decent life : the small farm in high northern fell-land , the farm coming in part or in whole to him , several children , heavy days , quiet times , a life she often yearned for — a plain and ordinary life away from this coddled valley , a place in which she could start again . |
| 18 | ’ Then , provoked by we know not what domestic disaffection , he adds : ‘ And yf she be not obedient and healpfull unto hym , endevorethe to beate the feare of God into her heade , that therby she may be compelled to learne her dutie and do it . ‘ |
| 19 | Every time afterwards when she saw her uncle wear that shirt she remembered the words that Rose spoke . |
| 20 | Successive Secretaries acknowledge the outstanding support she provided in that role . |
| 21 | There was no other emotional support she dared to ask for . |
| 22 | In each case she argues that female creativity has been constructed by men as a contradiction in terms . |
| 23 | Well should have been really taking two of her strong tablets she says , you know , and she has . |
| 24 | On the way back that afternoon she bought a can of red spray paint in a car accessories shop . |
| 25 | That afternoon she sought out his housemaster , a fresh-faced biology PhD who habitually passed his free-time assembling , examining and cataloguing slides of plankton species from the Moray Firth . |
| 26 | That afternoon she had been to see her doctor in Paris . |
| 27 | That afternoon she took me upstairs to her small bedroom for the first time . |
| 28 | On the way home from school that afternoon she began to mull over the various possibilities , and when at last the germ of a brilliant idea hit her , she began to expand on it and lay her plans with the same kind of care the Duke of Wellington had done before the Battle of Waterloo . |
| 29 | That afternoon she and I devised in the small front room of our lodgings ( pliant landlady , audience of children ) a double act : the Carruthers Sisters . |
| 30 | She could wake up and find that it was still the night of their parents ' wedding , that only that afternoon she and Stephen had been on the train . |