Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] she [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the upstairs passage she opened the long case clock , knowing very well it was broken , that the weights had not descended for years and the hands remained at twenty to one . |
| 2 | She has served as a student counsellor with the Education and Training Department and as deputy director of practice regulation she played a major role in setting up the new regulations for financial services business and audit . |
| 3 | Beneath an open beige silk trenchcoat she wore a red Louis Féraud dress ; her legs were long and sheathed in fine black nylon . |
| 4 | As she left Coleherne Court she left a poignant note for her flatmates , giving them her new telephone number : ‘ For God 's sake ring me up — I 'm going to need you . ’ |
| 5 | She might have been daft in some ways , but she knew what was in and what was out , did Mary M. She knew the right clubs to go to . |
| 6 | From the pocket of her noisy plastic mac she produced a key as long as her own forearm , its turning piece in the shape of a Latin cross . |
| 7 | In the morning room she wound the French clock , the one with love birds entwined on the top of it . |
| 8 | Margaret Thatcher deserves some of the credit for this sudden silence : in her last cabinet reshuffle she replaced the pugnacious Kenneth Clarke with the patrician William Waldegrave . |
| 9 | On Boxing Day she put a short note through Doris 's door with her little bit of news and positively ran back home , feeling suddenly young again and full of energy . |
| 10 | At the end of a long gold chain she carried a Georgian spyglass which she applied in a rather menacing manner to a small , beady eye . |
| 11 | At Ipswich 's Clouds boutique she chose a soft , elegant three-piece outfit in shades of apricot by Italian designer Crimson . |
| 12 | A second hospital has been accused of mixing up a baby 's name tag , making the mother fear she had the wrong child . |
| 13 | Inside the reception hall she found a tiny antiquated lift barely large enough to take herself , her suitcase and a bellboy to her fifth-floor room . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought you 'd never ask , ’ she whispered , and in the gathering darkness she heard a ragged sigh just before his head came down and blocked out the stars . |
| 15 | At the sight of windows lit against the gathering gloom she had a sudden desire to turn tail and run , to take refuge below in the Angharad . |
| 16 | When TV presenter Anne Diamond lost her baby through cot death she started a nationwide awareness campaign . |