Example sentences of "[adj] she [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She glanced sharply at him , and although his expression remained inscrutable she had the fleeting impression that his reasons involved a woman . |
| 2 | It would be humiliating if he ever guessed exactly how she felt about him , how much she envied the other woman . |
| 3 | Soon after Mrs Thatcher came to power in 1979 she disbanded the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth , set up as a permanent body by the Labour government in 1974 to report periodically on changes in distribution trends . |
| 4 | Indeed the authorities became so concerned that in 1935 she became the first cartoon character to be censored . |
| 5 | With that she slammed the old Austin into gear , then almost as quickly put it back into neutral . |
| 6 | After that she pushed the older woman from her mind while concentrating upon several small tasks , and at mid morning she took a break to follow the covered path leading towards the chalets . |
| 7 | When Sarella pushed open the big old doors of the refectory a few minutes after eight she found the high-domed room beyond her deserted . |
| 8 | In 1984 she won the prestigious City of London painting prize . |
| 9 | In 1920 she sat the competitive examination to enter the International Labour Office in Geneva and joined its agricultural service . |
| 10 | When the family moved to Althorp in 1975 she had the perfect auditorium . |
| 11 | She was waiting , she says , until she was sure she had the right project with the right people . |
| 12 | The good news is that Emma has been given the all clear and regular check up appointments at St.Bart 's and Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford will make sure she gets the right care from the experts . |
| 13 | In 1918 she became the chief woman officer of the Labour party , in which role she was particularly active in pressing for improved working-class housing estates to include community centres with nurseries , restaurants , libraries , concert halls , and home-help services , all of which she saw as not merely desirable in themselves but essential for the emancipation of working-class housewives . |
| 14 | In May 1952 she obtained the superb patterns of the B form which now grace the textbooks , and which J. D. Watson saw early in 1953 . |
| 15 | On graduation in 1899 she entered the Imperial Ballet , bypassing the corps de ballet and rising through the ranks to ballerina in 1905 and prima ballerina a year later . |
| 16 | In 1928 she became the first person ever to swim the Straits of Gibraltar ( in 12 hrs. 50 min. ) , braving the perils of whirlpools , currents , and sharks . |
| 17 | And now small and neat she overrode the big man behind his own — undoubtedly genuine eighteenth-century — desk as he opened his mouth to reply . |
| 18 | At first she found the pitch-black darkness of the Motabeng night terrifying . |
| 19 | In 1871 she married the American journalist and painter William James Stillman , widower , former husband of Laura Macks , and father of two daughters and a son , who died in 1874 . |
| 20 | On March 23 she made the first appointments to a new government . |
| 21 | In 1982 she found the right spot , in the harsh thornbush country of the Laikipiak Maasai , who live on the northern slopes of Mt Kenya . |
| 22 | On Feb. 28 she joined the Supreme Council 's economic commission , although there were suggestions that she intended to stand in opposition to the administration of President Vytautas Landsbergis . |
| 23 | In 1900 she met the American collector Samuel Bancroft , who became her foremost patron . |
| 24 | However , in 1926 she had the largest show of her lifetime , at the New Chenil Galleries , London , and received considerable attention . |
| 25 | Flora , always spoilt , is never lonely — until at the last she has the frightening experience of seeing herself as one pair of hostile eyes saw her : the eyes of a person so ill-conditioned as to sent her an anonymous letter , and yet a painter of distinction . |
| 26 | At last she found the right room . |
| 27 | In 1927 she swam the 120 miles from London to Folkestone in stages ; and on 7 October 1927 , at her eighth attempt , she became the first Englishwoman to swim the Channel ( from France to England in 15 hrs. 15 min . ) . |
| 28 | In January 1645 she taunted the Presbyterian polemicist a second time in A New-Yeares-Gift … to Mr. Thomas Edwards . |
| 29 | In 1906 she joined the militant Women 's Social and Political Union , and became editor of Votes for Women in 1912 . |