Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ['s] [noun] she [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after a further month 's reflection she changed her mind and wrote to Moira that it was up to her to do something about ‘ the incompetence of your staff at Harriet Street [ which ] is now causing BA and myself sleepless nights ’ . |
| 2 | " I would go through agony , " she remembers , citing the instance of the British Girls ' Championship she played at Dunbar when she was no more than 10 years of age . |
| 3 | As they put the presents at the bottom of the sleeping child 's bed she said anxiously : ‘ Are you sure you think the umbrella 's a good idea ? |
| 4 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |
| 5 | For that day 's class she had taken her own watercolours , bought with the Visacard in Reading … |
| 6 | The reply was murmured into the string of turquoise shark 's teeth she wore round her neck . |
| 7 | During her 13 months ' service she escorted more than 700 ships across the world 's beleaguered oceans , without loss of a single one . |
| 8 | The spring day was unseasonably warm , and after two hour 's tuition she went into the clubhouse . |
| 9 | Like all the other officers ' wives she wore a uniform of their own devising , pale-green skirt and shirt . |
| 10 | In the middle of this strange house 's celebrations she felt much more of an outsider than she had done sitting on her own in her room . |