Example sentences of "[pron] she [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those countries she visited not only ancient monuments and museums but also factories , prisons , and orphanages , in which she took a keen interest . |
| 2 | Mer-doll and T-shirt opportunities appear to be limitless ; making balance-sheet splashes are Disney 's The Little Mermaid and the upcoming Cher movie Mermaids — a tail story in which she plays a single mother of two who leads a less-than-respectable love life . |
| 3 | Mrs. Bidwell , the Laboratory cleaner , had insisted on visiting her broom cupboard , under escort , and had provided herself with a feather duster and a couple of rags with which she made a vigorous onslaught on the bookshelves . |
| 4 | The act was performed with particular virtuosity when Mrs Crumwallis dosed them all with castor oil , an old-fashioned cure-all in which she had a fiendish trust : then the boys ' performance resembled nothing so much as an acted-out illustration for Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 5 | She was an excellent shrewd local politician and a comfort to her at the end of her life was the defeat of the atrocious plans of the Merrell Dow Chemical Company to build a plant near her beloved River Blackwater , the last campaign in which she played an active part . |
| 6 | Fascinated , Dr Neil , who had opened the bag and was beginning to pull out strange-looking forceps and a bottle of chloroform , watched her lift up her black skirt to reveal a spotless white petticoat , from which she cut a large square which she placed on the grimy table , having first cleared to one side the used cups and plates covered in half-eaten food . |
| 7 | Pauline , the highlight of whose round was the eagle with which she followed a wind-tossed triple-bogey at the 12th , brought news of how she had been attacked by a couple of bitches . |
| 8 | Miss Stobbs paid an £85 deposit for which she received a written receipt and agreed to pay the balance before her June wedding . |
| 9 | They were in the kitchen , Irene still in a dressing-gown , an ivory frilled cotton to which she gave a golden glow , and Nona in jeans with a white shirt . |
| 10 | She was reduced to the landlord 's daughter who served at table : it was the sort of anonymous commingling in which she found a great relief . |
| 11 | One , she felt , was taking advantage of Bernard and her by knowing about the business — he had requested some shares in the company , which she considered an outrageous request ; another had called her by her Christian name which was equally unacceptable . |
| 12 | The choreographer was Onna White , who had worked on the first musical version of a Charles Dickens book , Oliver ! , the 1968 British film starring Ron Moody and Oliver Reed — for which she won a special Oscar — and had staged Half a Sixpence in New York , featuring Tommy Steele . |
| 13 | These were the only weapons she had had against an apparently uncaring world , and through using them she retained a precarious sense of identity and integrity . |
| 14 | Just before she reached them she found a felled tree . |
| 15 | One of her earliest pupils , in whom she had a great deal of confidence , was Brighton 's Julie Pullin who poignantly won her first women 's international title on the African satellite , 48 hours before Winnie died , and who went on to win a second title two weeks later . |
| 16 | Ms Raymond 's death came just a month after the break-up of her marriage to her second husband with whom she had a 10-month-old daughter . |
| 17 | Among them are a portrait of the beauteous Dorelia with whom she took a passionate walking trip across France and who later lived in a ménage à trois with her brother and his wife . |
| 18 | Aubrey Herbert [ q.v. ] , with whom she founded an Anglo-Albanian association , said that ‘ she restored Albania to the memory of Europe . ’ |
| 19 | Organ jazz has for a long time been club-trendy but it has taken until now for a new artist to come through to match the likes of Jimmy Smith and ‘ Big ’ John Patton with whom she shares a clear affinity in her choice of rhythms and blues inflections . |
| 20 | A passionate lover of the Savoy Operas , she was a founder member of the Bradford Gilbert and Sullivan Society , with who she had a long association . |
| 21 | It was the gateway to life and one she suddenly had no wish to pass through , one she felt a gripping fear of passing through . |
| 22 | There were two easels in the room and on one she saw an unfinished picture . |
| 23 | And as the door closed behind him she felt a surging wave of triumph . |
| 24 | He knew that when she looked at him she saw a leaking penis . |
| 25 | He showed her that like him she had a long life-line . |
| 26 | They she did a new paragraph like that and then she carried on like that . |
| 27 | POLICE launched a massive hunt for accident victim Christine Jessop — to warn her she had a broken neck . |
| 28 | Her widowhood sat lightly on her shoulders , and from what Peggy gathered from her she had a favourite pub . |
| 29 | He told her she had a lovely body and when she went to bed with him , she said ( he 'd find out about it anyway and drop her ) : |
| 30 | And the very day we were with her she opened a new Citizens ' Advice Bureau in Beccles with considerable aplomb — no easy task after SHE fashion team had stunned the locals by setting up an ironing board in the middle of the town car park and giving Christine 's purple suit a quick press on the spot . |