Example sentences of "[noun] she [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two years later , Paul saw Sinead on stage with Ton Ton Macoute in Dublin and witnessed first hand the raw emotion she could generate in a performance . |
| 2 | Jean would appreciate a note from you about what royalties she might expect in the near future , remembering she 's had a 500 advance . |
| 3 | He had even made a suggestion about a piece she might write on the role of women in the Tory Party , perhaps in the Government Whips ' Office . |
| 4 | The only glimmer of light she could see at the moment seemed to come from the cheerful faces of the Rafferty children whenever they arrived on the Four Winds doorstep . |
| 5 | When she was castaway on Radio 4 's Desert Island Discs — a year before taking over the show — Sue told the then presenter Michael Parkinson that the luxury she would want on the island would be an endless supply of clean sheets and an iron . |
| 6 | On the contrary , her home is a cohesive force , perhaps the only cohesive force she can experience in the generally fragmenting world of adolescence . |
| 7 | She knew that much from the English-language books she 'd read during the evenings , sitting in the Sabatini library . |
| 8 | As he climbed through her bedroom window she would flee down the stairs , slamming the door on his sanguinary hand . |
| 9 | The village primary school has already told her parents she can go into the youngest class in September , a month before her fourth birthday . |
| 10 | In return she 'd look after the ponies , school them and play polo . ’ |
| 11 | It must be a blackbird she could hear in the pear tree . |
| 12 | His jacket fell open , revealing the strong contours of his chest under the thin white cotton of his shirt , and Fran found her eyes drawn to the faint shadow of body hair she could see beneath the thin fabric . |
| 13 | It stimulates the development of rational thinking , of critical and creative abilities so that an educated person is able to employ any knowledge and skills she may have in a variety of ways and contexts . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She wondered what excuse she might use as a pretext for calling on Sykes . |
| 16 | The support she may win in the crisis , where minor disagreements are sunk in the face of a much disliked enemy , can evaporate in everyday disputes , where the Prime Minister 's views must compete with many other acceptable views . |
| 17 | This is good news , and obviously the more support she can get from the community , the better . |
| 18 | She had come to look forward to the intervals between tenants , for at such times she would sit at the bedroom window that overlooked the street , which sloped swiftly to the main thoroughfare ; and guided by the landmarks of St Dominic 's church and , beyond that , St Ann 's , she could look over the chimney pots and catch a glimpse of the river gleaming between the busy traffic on it . |
| 19 | That alone would be terrible without any danger she might encounter on the way . |
| 20 | In the early days she would go for an evening ‘ burn up ’ in her car around central London , leaving her armed Scotland Yard bodyguard behind . |
| 21 | From such a vantage point she might see across the land for ever — to the edge of the wood in all directions … |
| 22 | As she grappled with the staples she could feel inside the bag the firm shape of a book . |
| 23 | He would n't have time to save himself ; the splash as he entered the stream would be the most satisfying sound she would hear in a long time . |
| 24 | She intended to go straight to the second floor and find a policeman she could tell about the keys , but when she reached the first floor landing she veered into the newsroom instead . |
| 25 | With another sigh , and feeling extremely awkward because she 'd obviously been foisted on them when they had n't wanted her to be foisted , she decided not to unpack , just take out the things she would need for the night . |
| 26 | She lifts from the floor a leather Gladstone bag , and begins to load it with the things she will need for the day : well-thumbed , much underlined and annotated copies of Shirley , Mary Barton , North and South , Sybil , Alton Locke , Felix Holt , Hard Times ; her lecture notes — a palimpsest of holograph revisions in different-coloured inks , beneath which the original typescript is scarcely legible ; and a thick sheaf of student essays marked over the Christmas vacation . |
| 27 | Dorothea was there and the person she used to bring as a partner for Faith 's bridge games when I could not play . |
| 28 | Here I am , replied the person she could see in the chair . |
| 29 | She grabbed the wrap and hugged it round her , agonisingly aware of the swollen-eyed wreck she must look in the brightness . |
| 30 | It was nothing like the transformation she would undergo in a few years time but it signalled the slow resurrection of her inner spirit . |