Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | About this time of year she 'd have expected business to be picking up , but instead it remains ominously quiet . |
| 2 | She should have told her that after thirty-six years of marriage she 'd discovered her husband was a homosexual , the explanation of everything . |
| 3 | Henrietta 's frail constitution could not withstand the rigours of childbirth , however , and after seven years of marriage she died soon after giving birth to their son , John . |
| 4 | I think she 'd knitted it herself out of old pieces of string she 'd saved from the children 's birthday presents . ’ |
| 5 | Out of some sort of desperation she seemed to want to degrade herself . |
| 6 | In one of those swings of mood she experienced , swooping backwards and forwards like a pendulum , Blanche was frothy again . |
| 7 | In that state of ignorance she could not , when she signed the transfer , have known she was dealing with her son 's property . |
| 8 | She would offer her breast as a blood sacrifice for life and in that moment of despair she had no doubt at all but that death would accept it and she would have to live . |
| 9 | In that moment of fear she remembered the Brownie Guide Law , which points out that ‘ a Brownie Guide thinks of others before herself and does a good turn every day . ’ |
| 10 | In that moment of truth she wanted to be struck by lightning and reduced to smouldering ashes . |
| 11 | His patience was dwindling and for the first time in four years of marriage she could see he was on the point of losing his temper . |
| 12 | He had noticed that in rare moments of stress she was apt to revert to her original Cockney . |
| 13 | Somewhere on another plane of existence she knew that he was pacing himself , tuning himself to her slower needs : that his tiny muted cries of painful frustration were evidence of his consideration as he aroused her to an aching , trembling plateau of desire . |
| 14 | The last thing in the world she had thought of becoming was a parson 's wife , and if she were to consider it for any length of time she would refuse through lack of courage . |
| 15 | Claudia started more coffee , reflecting that if Dana was going to stay for any length of time she would need fresh supplies . |
| 16 | At this point of crisis she could n't bear a quiet limbo . |
| 17 | During seven years of illness she had been admitted to hospital 13 times , often compulsorily during episodes of violent behaviour when she was a danger both to her children and herself . |
| 18 | Her daughter drives out from Bamford once a week but around this time of year she goes to stay with some other relative , I 'm not sure where , so I dare say she is n't there at the moment and you have n't got any immediate neighbours resident . |