Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [noun] [noun] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the community midwife calls at home on day 6 or 7 to take the heel prick blood sample for the usual screening tests she asks whether or not they want their son tested for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and marks the screening card accordingly . |
| 2 | She wears her usual dull black leggings , and for the cool April evening she has put on a black woolly top . |
| 3 | The very first question Monica was asked when she arrived in the interview room following her comfortable defeat of Mary Joe Fernandez in the final at Linders Park — apart form the gasp of astonishment and general approval for the 1920's style outfit she was wearing , was ‘ Will you go to Wimbledon now ? ’ |
| 4 | The sharp tongue is now reserved for the consciousness-raising rap session she gives at American universities , where students are allowed to ask whatever they like about her life , her sexuality , her views of the world , provided they can cope with the answers . |
| 5 | She stood , reached for the clumsy metal blade she now carried , flung back her cloak to expose patterned nakedness , threw back her head , howled Tallis 's name , then Scathach 's , then her own , then looked again , silent , furious , to where Tallis hovered in the shadows at the edge of the wood . |
| 6 | She could recall the excitement of spending for the first time money she had actually earned . |
| 7 | And for the important State Gala she donned an outfit she had worn only last week at the Queen 's 40th Anniversary celebrations and before that on the Nigerian tour in 1989 . |
| 8 | Jennifer Owen argues convincingly that this amounts to a very significant area of habitat , she shows clearly and simply how it may be improved , and for the dedicated wildlife gardener she says enough to encourage an attempt at recording . |
| 9 | She held his hands tight , but he smiled , freed his hands , then reached for the grey ostrich feathers she wore in her hair . |
| 10 | Says a studio executive , ‘ Breathless was added for the dramatic story line she gives the film but she is faithful in style and tone to the original . ’ |
| 11 | During the Second World War she worked indefatigably for charities such as the Red Cross , which packed parcels for prisoners of war , made medical dressings for the wounded and provided canteens for the serving men and women . |
| 12 | Luxemburg was vigorously criticised by a number of leading Marxists at that time , such as Otto Bauer and Karl Kautsky , and while she was in prison during the First World War she wrote a reply to her critics . |
| 13 | During the First World War she volunteered for the Women 's Reserve Ambulance and twice won the Croix de Charité for gallantry for heroic rescues in Salonica . |
| 14 | Oh , yes , I know about the secret metal box she owned ; her turreted chamber at Blois with its magic mirror which told her the future ; and her employment of that terrible prophet Nostradamus who prophesied the end of the world . |
| 15 | Peering through the wrought iron barrier she watched the nuns file into their stalls , wondering why there was a screen separating what she had been told was the sanctuary from the rest of the chapel . |
| 16 | All through the short plane journey she 'd been imagining what it would be like to meet Rune again socially . |
| 17 | Hopefully , by the time read this , Silver Salmon will be well on the way towards completion of the major engine overhaul she has been longing for ever since our return from Denmark . |
| 18 | It was a small back room at the back of the house , little more than a box , but when she pressed down the switch of the low-voltage nursery light she felt again a glow of maternal , proprietorial pride . |
| 19 | ‘ She 's already doing a novena for me because of the Good Sex Guide she 'll be praying forever when she sees this show . ’ |
| 20 | And as she thought of the good golfing years she had allowed to go to waste , so praying and practice loomed large in the recovery programme she set herself . |
| 21 | And there , over the tops of the trees that grew on falling ground to their north , there on the other side of the valley was one of the liveliest country houses she had ever seen . |
| 22 | After the end of the first World War she was active in the co-operative movement and the Labour Party , which was not common for a woman of her background in those early years . |
| 23 | Lord Osborne said he was satisfied on the evidence that when Ms Sultana went through the formalities of the civil marriage ceremony she did not truly consent to be married to Mr Ahmed . |
| 24 | At the end of the Second World War she spent six months touring concentration camps in Europe , with a programme of Yiddish songs and sketches , and met hundreds of survivors of Hitler 's persecution . |
| 25 | He was not very good about women 's clothes , only noticing whether they were becoming or not , but he recognised the quality of hers , and of the big leather handbag she had placed on the desk . |
| 26 | She closed the door behind her and joined him on the pavement and as she took several breaths of the crisp October air she suddenly felt how good it was to be alive . |
| 27 | Whether it was to share his moment of regret at the passing of time , or to express disillusion with Parkin himself — she had made some comment in the car about how he was one of the few television reporters she knew and respected — Dexter did not know . |
| 28 | But this does n't win her enough of the meaty character roles she 'd love to play . |
| 29 | Her fingers toyed with the ends of the fine saffron scarf she wore in her hair , a floppy bow peeping provocatively from her curls just below one ear . |
| 30 | She had no way of knowing that he was thinking not so much of the next photo story she would submit to him as the necessary therapy it might provide . |