Example sentences of "[noun] she [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So how could she possibly tell her friend about the almost wild grief she felt at the prolonged absence of her husband ; the deep , stabbing pain in her heart when she remembered their wonderful night of passion ? |
| 2 | Guy Sterne 's eyes held a glitter of amusement , but a darker emotion she saw in the pale green-grey brought colour sweeping up her neck to her face . |
| 3 | Mrs Stych snapped back that all the ladies present must be well aware of the multitude of offices she held in the charitable organizations of Tollemarche . |
| 4 | The Princess , dressed simply in a white blouse and dark skirt , was draped with crimson flower garlands as she flew over Mount Everest in a helicopter , 40 years after a British-sponsored expedition became the first to reach the summit of the world 's highest mountain.As she flew past the snowy peak a relative of a Nepalese climber who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary up Everest in 1953 was leading a seven-member Australian team up the mountain.Although the Princess did not see any climbers she told fellow passengers aboard her Super Puma helicopter that she had a wonderful time seeing the mountain through clear skies . |
| 5 | To cover her confusion she enquired after the latest entertaining village gossip from Lucy , who was prone to whiling away hours at the ante-natal clinic in deep conversation with fellow village wives . |
| 6 | There are though , records of a talk she gave to the Royal Photographic Society at Russell Square in London on October 28th 1913 . |
| 7 | There are though , records of a talk she gave to the Royal Photographic Society at Russell Square in London on October 28th 1913 . |
| 8 | Apart from her looks , and especially those deep green eyes , she was cheerful and friendly and seemingly unaware of the effect she had on the unsophisticated young men around her . |
| 9 | His towers rejected the fear she had of the hideous , dehumanized sadists she had known at Mars-U . |
| 10 | Nora enjoyed the undercurrents and tensions she felt in the light-seeming chatter all around . |
| 11 | With a sigh she turned to the next patient , smiling as a young woman carried a small child into the room . |
| 12 | as if remembering the steps of a dance she walked to the long cheval mirror in the bedroom and tried on the dress , a dark grey beaded silk gown by Bruce Oldfield . |
| 13 | At home she belonged to the local Salvation Army corps , but gradually she became bored . |
| 14 | It was then that she met ‘ the love of my life ’ : he answered an ad she placed in the local paper for someone to read to her . |
| 15 | One other peculiarity she shared with the four Atlantic states : she had great extra-European interests , though they lay across land frontiers in Asia rather than across the sea . |
| 16 | And every waking hour she chipped at the ugly block , sanded , scored , chiselled , gouged gaping eye sockets . |
| 17 | We have been promised a visit to another great showpiece in Peking — the Summer Palace built by the Dowager Empress last century from money she misappropriated from the naval funds ( so they tell us ) . |
| 18 | Amanda Bairstow 's principal boy was attractive , but , whatever the provincial accent she adopted as the fortune-seeking Dick was meant to be , it was nowhere near the Gloucester that the script ( and history ) specified . |
| 19 | She was Dr Katharine Ash , twenty-five years old , able to handle the admiration she got from the opposite sex with aplomb , supremely confident of her destiny . |
| 20 | The moment she came to the top step , she realised what the matter was . |
| 21 | When she retired from the RCM in 1948 she went on to run the Violet Melchet Infant Welfare Centre near Sloane Square , a job she held for the next twenty years . |
| 22 | On 15 November she wrote to the Financial Times . |
| 23 | Although the moon was riding high in the sky , and shedding a rather weird , eerie glow on the flowering shrubs and various trees edging the green lawn , she was surprised at how much more calm and at ease she felt in the soft , enveloping darkness as she picked her way carefully over the sand . |
| 24 | For the next thirty years she worked among the poor in Wapping , Rotherhithe , and Dublin , retiring in 1925 , at the age of seventy-nine , to her old home in Braintree , now a convent run by Franciscan nuns as an old people 's home . |
| 25 | In the attic room she lay on the narrow straw mattress listening to Sally 's snores , watching stars brighten in the charcoal sky and struggling to push away the growing sense of responsibility . |
| 26 | This remark she delivered with the immense complacency of the wise virgin ; Clara could not help but feel that having men in only when things went wrong was not as wildly eccentric as her mother supposed , but as she knew no other way , no other world , she could not be sure . |
| 27 | Two more birdies coming home compensated for the bogeys she had at the fourteenth and sixteenth holes . |
| 28 | The diagonal constructions employed in the paintings she selected at the National Gallery and their use as a formal agent aiding and abetting the organisation of colour is what Riley emphasises and announces in her own work of this period . |
| 29 | In the Ladies ' Singles , Jenny Binns is defending the title she won for the first time last year . |
| 30 | Yesterday she was visibly shocked by the conditions she witnessed in the Serb-run camps . |