Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] she in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Helen 's day was filled by the demands of her young charges and the vain attempts of Mrs Webb to train her in some orderliness in domestic affairs , Edward continued to tend her father 's grave . |
| 2 | Her hard work and determination set her in good stead for the confrontation she had had with the Johnson representative , Albert Buller . |
| 3 | For example when Pip meets Miss Haversham for the 1st time , Dickens describes her in immense detail . |
| 4 | The yellow glow from his little oil lamp showed her in unusual array , her black hair braided in a red ribbon , with curls artfully breaking free around her temples , her gown deepest and brightest blue like her eyes , and a girdle of gold braid round her hips . |
| 5 | Anyone acting out of character worried her in this way , until she had had a silent time alone , to work it out and grow used to the change . |
| 6 | And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there . |
| 7 | Life can take many strange twists , ’ Jonas told her in all seriousness , then softened the whole with a laugh . |
| 8 | They reported that they knew of no matter involving her in any way and asked for a description of the white identification cards . |
| 9 | Her eyes widened and for a moment she looked scared , but her model 's training stood her in good stead and she showed no other sign of what must have been a shock . |
| 10 | Penry Vaughan studied her in brooding silence for a moment , then glanced at the forgotten tray on the bedside table . |
| 11 | Tamar found the side-saddle strange at first , but her previous experience stood her in good stead . |
| 12 | Tina Howe 's Painting Churches shows her in full flight , as the wife of a distinguished Boston poet and the mother of a women painter who has come to do their portrait . |
| 13 | The other old nomes watched her in horrified silence . |
| 14 | But in none of the above cases do the manoeuvres by which the main character resists her passive relation to language engage her in active polemic with other texts . |