Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ['s] [noun] [conj] she " in BNC.

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1 Bridget Ewing has had very few enquiries about Residential Homes ' Membership and she would be pleased to hear from more teachers involved in these type of classes .
2 Sandy means an awful lot in that old lady 's life and she does occasionally reach the point when she 's got so little money left that believe it or not she has to choose between buying food for herself and buying dog food for Sandy .
3 My master said : for my dear mother 's sake I will be a friend to you and you shall take care of my linen — God bless him — and gave me four golden guineas which were in my old lady 's pocket when she died .
4 To say that the terminology at B.P. was cryptic resembles the old lady 's comment that she is suffering from a ‘ gastric stomach ’ ; but there was an esoteric language to be learned .
5 ‘ I suppose her memory 's a bit faulty , ’ Irene commented on the old lady 's assertion that she 'd never seen Elaine .
6 with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night !
7 ‘ Watch this lady 's parcels until she gets back , ’ she instructed .
8 But we can not trust this wife 's claim that she is starved of cash by her husband .
9 Eleanor sent Richard and Geoffrey to join their brother at the French King 's court while she herself summoned the Poitevins to arms .
10 Would you carry another woman 's would you carry another woman 's baby if she could n't have it ?
11 Would you carry another woman 's baby if she could n't have it ?
12 The hale and hearty young archivists stood by , worried that she might die — worried partly because of the venerable old man 's fever that she should n't , and partly because of professional affront at the possibility of all that memorabilia going west .
13 She was watching the chief inspector 's face as she said it , and she knew that he believed her , and accepted her as a good witness .
14 He knew , he said , that he was just an ordinary farmer 's son and she was a famous Beauty , known the county over , never a word spoken against her even by the men who bivouacked up in the fells — but he would have no-one else and would wait just as long as she told him to .
15 She seemed fascinated by Benjamin as if he was telling some mysterious tale on a cold winter 's night and she was a spectator , not a party to it .
16 Julia waited to give Raffaella the bad news until she had delivered her lesson , led a halting conversation in English about the future of Italy , handed out the previous week 's exercises that she had marked , and set the work for the next lesson .
17 Carrie had seen the accountant 's bill for the previous year 's work and she knew why he never complained .
18 Their faces were a few inches apart — and then they were in each other 's arms and she whispered , ‘ Yes — I still love you .
19 A simple X-ray spotted an inch-long needle left in the 56-year-old mum 's bottom when she was giving birth to her daughter , Jane , in Rotherham , Yorks .
20 Lady was old and followed the Great Dane 's example because she was too stupid to know any better .
21 Maggie had thought there might be a sign of deference in the fat girl 's voice when she replied to the somewhat intimidating supervisor , but there was n't .
22 His pale eyes ice-burned Jess 's skin as she hastily pulled the remnants of the shirt around her .
23 Chesarynth felt conspicuous ; people around were staring at them , but it was the first time in her weary day 's travel that she had seen a box and it called to the echoes of firesong that the one on the Moon had left in her mind .
24 She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter :
25 First he squeezed 60-year-old Jean 's hand as she sat by his bed .
26 An untidily dressed Maud flung open Mildred 's door as she rushed past .
27 He told the jurors they should look for corroboration of the 18-year-old woman 's claim that she had been attacked in the officer 's marked police car .
28 They fell upon the red hour-glass painted on Big Momma 's abdomen as she swung down a thread of silk and revolved slowly round on the thread until she had landed on a flat shiny surface .
29 Peggy has been a member of the union for twenty three years been a shop steward for eleven years the last nine at K P Foods and also branch quality officer , been a branch committee member and a member of the Midland and East Coast regional council member of the regional Labour women 's conference and she 's been to G M B congress , congress on a number of occasions .
30 She was just bending over to pat powder on to a young actress 's face when she heard the door open behind her and a strange tingle of apprehension prickled the back of her neck .
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