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 | 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 . |
| 7 | The denuded chest she pushed against a wall . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That very quick grey shy look she puts on , like a little lance . |
| 13 | Successive Secretaries acknowledge the outstanding support she provided in that role . |
| 14 | There was no other emotional support she dared to ask for . |
| 15 | Well should have been really taking two of her strong tablets she says , you know , and she has . |
| 16 | Julie Dixon , who was eighteen at the time of the murder , has been awarded an undisclosed sum by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board for the loss of parental support she suffered . |
| 17 | The coffee smelt and tasted rich , quite unlike the freeze-dried brand she used at home . |
| 18 | When my hon. Friend was a Member of the European Parliament she did a tremendous amount of work to promote not only her region , but the concept of regional government for England . |
| 19 | He had a lantern lit by the time she had dressed , wrapping herself last of all in the big , hooded cloak she had brought for Birsay . |
| 20 | ‘ Virginia adores Ballet Rambert , ’ Lucy put in helpfully , ignoring the fiercely repressive look she received in return . |
| 21 | Her diet was mostly handfuls of peanuts and crisps from private views she had attended . |
| 22 | To the real world , thousands of miles from this suspended animation , this emotional nirvana she 'd plunged unexpectedly into … |
| 23 | In a still moment of total blackness she could feel the sinewed strength , the velvet softness of the dragon 's tripes . |
| 24 | On the other hand , the man she had been wary of seeing , who had a bad reputation , who in her right mind she should never have got involved with , had turned out to be a good man underneath . |
| 25 | To occupy the intervening months she took a job in a hospital . |
| 26 | All the scenes she made out of nothing were part of another , more insidious pleasure she was experiencing : she wanted to see how much punishment he would take , how long he would go on bowing his head . |
| 27 | Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear . |
| 28 | In the strange light she was no longer a milkmaid , but a vision of woman , the whole of womanhood in one form . |
| 29 | A seventeen year old girl was seriously injured when the stolen car she was riding in crashed into a tree . |
| 30 | Sally Ann Cattell , 14 , of Birmingham , was killed after the stolen car she was driving crashed during a police chase . |