Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Well should have been really taking two of her strong tablets she says , you know , and she has . |
| 4 | Her diet was mostly handfuls of peanuts and crisps from private views she had attended . |
| 5 | To occupy the intervening months she took a job in a hospital . |
| 6 | A woman standing next to her thrust a baby into her arms , and with her usual politeness she stayed holding it long after she would have liked to go away . |
| 7 | Strange words she chose ; on the back of a letter of mine I found words made out of HORSELESS and NOVELIZE . |
| 8 | Then she thought about those other long low huts she 'd seen in the fenced-off meadow beyond St Michael and All Angels . |
| 9 | It was strange , too , Anne thought , that everyone got on with their normal lives , in spite of the constant raids and disturbed nights , and had become used to seeing servicemen in so many different uniforms thronging the streets and the cinemas , and in the public houses she was sure , although she had never been in one . |
| 10 | It is nonetheless evident from her poetry that at different times she was visited by aspiring poets and dramatists . |
| 11 | It was no use waiting for Bella to answer her door : if it was one of her favourite programmes she would pretend not to hear the door bell . |
| 12 | Although she was just yards from the safety of nearby houses she was too frightened to call out . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , back at the ranch there was Antonia — busy dreaming of her days at No. 10 , her chauffeur-driven car , her designer millinery and all the social skills she could bring to the job of Prime Minister 's wife . |
| 14 | Alright old Goldilocks she stumbled across the house . |
| 15 | When she placed Morndun across her face and peered through its ghostly eyes she saw the air shimmering with elementals , sharp-faced , wraith-like , coiling and twisting above the river , streaming out of the mouths and eyes of the men by the water and from the piles of skulls by the trees . |
| 16 | On her high heels she teetered downstairs to join her father . |
| 17 | In the antique mirror with its frame of carved shells she saw both their faces distorted by a defect in the glass ; the brown and green of Stella 's huge luminous eyes smeared like wet paint into the deep clefts between nostrils and mouth ; her own wide brow bulging like that of a hydrocephalic child . |
| 18 | His body was tense , as was hers , yet they did n't move , only their mouths touched and they exchanged soft , drugging kisses that to Hilary generated the most exciting sensations she had ever experienced . |
| 19 | Clive Greenacre was not only put out when his agoraphobic wife started to express her anger about his callous behaviour , but also amazed by the sexual demands she then started to make on him . |
| 20 | On unsteady legs she walked towards the painting , seeing for the first time the mischievous face of a gremlin peeping out beneath the skirt of an old lady bent double , sweeping a woodland path . |
| 21 | Obviously no expense was being spared to make the night a success , and in different circumstances she would have been looking forward to it , but now , as silence settled over the car , she could feel herself growing tense . |
| 22 | As he pushed away the empty plates she waited for him to make some comment about the meal . |
| 23 | Jenny Warburton Lee would fly over in the company ‘ plane with all the fresh ingredients she could muster while Sybille gathered the rest locally . |
| 24 | She was thinking of the periodic visits she had made to her father ; they were all the same ; their conversations could have been scripted : |
| 25 | On the last occasion he had seen his mother , which was when he came down to Plumford for lunch at Easter , he had thought that to all outward appearances she was exactly the same as she had always been . |
| 26 | The Princess of Wales has announced that she is to cut dramatically the number of public duties she performs . |
| 27 | At the sound of Melissa 's strident tones she pulled up sharply and saw that her second least favourite person was standing squarely in front of her , thin arms folded determinedly across a rather too revealing cleavage . |
| 28 | She found the most sensible shoes she had and prepared to depart , rushing back at the last minute to snatch up a loose shirt and shrug into it . |
| 29 | In the old days she 'd not had time to think about anything except how to keep out of trouble . |
| 30 | In the old days she and Adam had often come to Starr Hills ; it was lonely , with no one to shout ‘ Crazy Demdykes ’ after them , and they 'd played intense , obsessive games of treasure-hunting amongst the junk . |