Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her face has been seen on millions of TV screens in the chocolate advert , where she lies in a bath calmly eating a Flake . |
| 2 | Or attempt to explore with a Central European Jew the precise nature of the ties that he or she feels with a culture which down the centuries has been responsible for so much persecution and pain . |
| 3 | In the biography of every individual he or she begins in a state of infantile dependence which ‘ is characterised by a persistence of both primary identification ( the emotional state of the infant in the womb ) and the oral incorporative or ‘ taking in ’ attitudes ( contributed by breast feeding ) as the infant 's chief means of object-relationships after birth ’ ( Guntrip , 1961 ) . |
| 4 | If you are not related by blood , or were not legally married to the deceased , you can not inherit from him or her if he or she dies without a will . |
| 5 | When the actor represents the play , he or she draws upon a variety of verbal and non-verbal resources . |
| 6 | Liz and her family love colour , although she admits that she gets into a rut buying navy and black ‘ because it goes with everything ’ . |
| 7 | Lisa B says again and again that she knows as a model going into music she has to prove herself . |
| 8 | ‘ Not only can we match any skin , from lightest to darkest , ’ he says , ‘ but we can give any woman the exact combination of texture , weight and coverage that she wants in a foundation or powder . |
| 9 | Her claims to be heard are based on her spiritual topic matter and the historical accident that she writes at a time when she believes more has been revealed about the divine and therefore she possesses ‘ more information ’ than previously . |
| 10 | Satisfied , she retraces her steps until she comes to a Ladies ' cloakroom . |
| 11 | She takes the lift to the seventh floor and walks along a carpeted corridor until she comes to a room whose door is slightly ajar . |
| 12 | ‘ Lola is very powerful and very sensitive and she goes through a lot of changes . |
| 13 | all I could is , I 'll get Tracy summat to wear and you got time , and she picks like a blouse , she 'd pay a hundred pound for one . |
| 14 | We stand holding each other , and she shivers like a butterfly and her tears trickle down my skin . |
| 15 | Three o'clock in the morning , bopping through a weird limb-jerking dance routine , and she looks like a child at playschool . |
| 16 | Mum said of him : ‘ He 's gone meshugge ( daft ) … the shiksa comes from nowhere , we know nothing about her , or her family , and she looks like a shmatte ( rag ) . ’ |
| 17 | We learn with them that he designs furniture ( as Harry Hoffman did ) and she works in a gallery of primitive art on Madison Avenue , but only in the end do they reveal their names to each other . |
| 18 | If she moves into a council home of her own , her rent is paid direct through the unified housing benefit . |
| 19 | It 's daft , it says a girl 's always got to wear grey if she works behind a counter or in a business 'ouse or as an 'otel clerk . |
| 20 | If she works in a shop or office , she could take samples of her work to show her colleagues or she could offer to make a garment for a friend for just the price of the yarn . |
| 21 | If she comes from a family where she felt undermined by her own mother the effect upon her is compounded . |
| 22 | It is apparently most excusable to rape your wife if she has for a period refused sexual intercourse ‘ unjustifiably ’ or if she has refused sexual intercourse unless her housekeeping money were raised , or even , curiously , ‘ in order to win her back . ’ |
| 23 | Well she was gon na have the three piece suite actually but she lives in a bungalow and of course the settee was a six foot settee which they do n't make now |
| 24 | Have you thought about getting a temp in to do her job , while she goes on a course ? |
| 25 | I do n't mean today I mean if she 's going in to London or something you know she 's got a base in London to do something in the morning before she goes on a call as opposed to some of them who have n't got a proper office space |
| 26 | Be careful when she swats at a fly or a spider , she may swat you by mistake . |
| 27 | Here the prostitute both loiters and eventually solicits when she speaks to a client . |
| 28 | Kylie fever has sent the temperature soaring and thousands camp out to catch a glimpse of Kylie when she appears as a guest on DJ Simon Mayo 's Radio One Roadshow . |
| 29 | ‘ When she behaves like a Sharina , she blames people 's dislike of her on being a foreigner , ’ sighed Jane . |
| 30 | Gee Armytage was yesterday bracing herself for another spell on the sidelines as she recovers from a back injury sustained in the Coral Welsh National . |