Example sentences of "[adj] things she " in BNC.
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| 1 | The depths that Ace seemed prepared to sink to just to hurt and wound her were the most painful things she 'd experienced since the start of their relationship . |
| 2 | Schmidt looked through the few things she brought out . |
| 3 | Just a few things she has to do . ’ |
| 4 | While we 're on this question , one of the few things that er Theresa did n't say , although perhaps she might have said it when I was n't , I do n't think she did but one of the few things she did n't say is why Freud disapproved of the typical kind of dream book you find in any book shop . |
| 5 | ‘ Vicky adores the dog and she is one of the few things she is interested in . |
| 6 | Of course , there were some things she could not know about . |
| 7 | De Beauvoir maintained rigid control over certain areas of her emotional and sexual life to the end of her days , yet some things she publicly , if not privately repressed have recently resurfaced . |
| 8 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 9 | ‘ I was n't there , ’ Maria confirmed , but she found she was having to force the resentment now , needing to remind herself — and him — of all the other lesser things she had lost as well . |
| 10 | Even her voice , detached from the funny things she said , was like honey and gravel stones all mixed up . |
| 11 | The remaining things she could come back for any day . |
| 12 | These beliefs not only explain to the ordinary language-user things she might have observed for herself , they also regulate linguistic behaviour . |
| 13 | Such things she had heard this day ! |
| 14 | no Norma does n't look into these things she just pays them . |
| 15 | It was the little things she missed such as those blissful moments of privacy when she could listen to her favourite composers on the car stereo at full blast . |
| 16 | She said I did n't appreciate her , I took her for granted , I did n't notice all the little things she did and that I sulked if she made the slightest mistake . |
| 17 | And there was his behaviour since their father 's death : odd little things she had scarcely noticed at the time but now they began to acquire significance in her mind . |
| 18 | Fat chance , she thought in despair , but little by little , when nothing happened to unsettle her , she was able to relax more and in doing so became aware of all the little things she had missed before — the warmth of his back against her chest , the firm feel of his waist under her hands , the slight shift of his thighs against hers as he changed gear . |
| 19 | For a woman , letting go may be one of the hardest things she has to do . |
| 20 | Me and Emma was talking about the flipping things she gets up to with Scott . |
| 21 | What strange things she said . |
| 22 | Of all things she knew that that was not true . |
| 23 | One of the most encouraging things she has found about being in Riyadh is that the Lord has been very close to her and gives her constant encouragement , when things are hard . |
| 24 | She became a snob ; she thought only of smart society ; and finally she tried to turn her uncle out of the very house in which the most useful things she knew had been inserted into her brain . |
| 25 | She was the leader because she knew what she wanted to do , but he knew many things she did not , although she was not prepared to admit that to him . |
| 26 | She could n't name many things she found lovable , but knew a thrill in being on the waterfront and always felt cheered by clouds racing along in the sky . |
| 27 | She was so good , yet there were so many things she did n't do which I would have thought she would have . |
| 28 | In fact , there were so many things she did n't want him to know that a list of them would have stretched on and on . |
| 29 | Huddling away from the draughts , she tried to keep up her spirits by thinking of all the hated things she had left behind — the sweeping and scrubbing and lugging coals ; Will 's taunts and Samson 's beatings ; the damp bed of straw and sacks in the cold scullery ; worst of all , the threat of being passed on to Garty Jenks . |
| 30 | All the terrible things she had thought earlier rose up in Pat 's mind . |