Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wendy Ramshaw 's retrospective exhibition at the South Bank Centre in London from 3 September to 7 October charts her career from the Newcastle College of Art and Design , where she studied in the Fifties , to her present eminence as the leading modernist woman artist-jeweller in Britain . |
| 2 | Katherine Jones ( Dr Pelly ) after completing her D.Phil in 1987 worked for about three years at Phillips and Drew , stockbrokers , where she specialised in the financial analysis of publishing companies . |
| 3 | He was holding her there without duress , pinning her where she sat by the sheer magnetism of his physical presence . |
| 4 | Either the mermaid was energetically breasting the waves or she sat on the upturned keel of a drowned vessel and combed out long and improbably yellow hair . |
| 5 | That , she knew full well , she could do nothing about , although she disapproved of the whole set-up . |
| 6 | Theda could barely repress a sigh of relief , although she wondered at the strange way the woman spoke . |
| 7 | Neither did he , for the moment , recognise her own diffidence as an indication that she felt in the same way about him . |
| 8 | Going to Libya in 1988 , Jousiffe — her name is English , possibly of French origin and not Middle Eastern in spite of its sound — found that she suffered from the negative influence she had absorbed and thought : ‘ I wo n't enjoy this . |
| 9 | The chief US negotiator , Carla Hills ( the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations ) , said on April 6 that she hoped in the near future ( i ) for an amendment of Japan 's Large Retail Store Act , which currently made it difficult start up new retail outlets ; and ( ii ) a restructuring of Japan 's Patent Office , which was accused of taking an average 37 months to approve new products for the Japanese market , and thus of effectively hampering the import of new products . |
| 10 | Zeno 's snapshot was Lori in the instant that she leaped from the low branch . |
| 11 | Sabatini had sympathy for her , admitting that she went through the same ordeal before winning the US Open in 1990 . |
| 12 | So much that she fell on the first excuse to put some distance between them . |
| 13 | ANIMAL rights campaigner Vicki Moore was so upset by cruelty to cows and bulls during the festivities at Candelada , near Avila , Spain , that she wrote to the Prime Minister about it . |
| 14 | It was only when she went to America , headlining for the first time , that she came across the curious racial classification with which music there is compartmentalised . |
| 15 | It had the same feel to it that she knew from the long hours she 'd spent experiencing the mass-market romantic slush that Madreidetic packed into their holos . |
| 16 | This was her way of thanks — the only way , perhaps , that she knew in the pitiful misery of her life . |
| 17 | After completing her survey she ensured that she left without the concrete socks . |
| 18 | Not even Jonathan , she thought suddenly , ever really saw anything but the smooth , exquisite façade that she presented to the outside world . |
| 19 | Without consideration he ripped the tape from her skin so that she winced with the searing pain . |
| 20 | And there was scarcely a shirt to be found that did not have the high necks and ruffles that she favoured in the early days . |
| 21 | It was only later that she switched to the Laban Centre and started dance training . |
| 22 | In desperation she slammed the stop-cock open and precious oxygen knifed outwards in an icy cloud that she aimed at the farthest point . |
| 23 | That was her style in the Falklands and it remained her style in a number of the confrontations that she faced over the next years . |
| 24 | Besides the commitment in Korea , the United States made a firm treaty with Japan in 1951 to ensure that she remained in the Western camp . |
| 25 | Except that it was n't her name that she carved into the yielding stone , but her sister 's . |
| 26 | In the early 1980s , because of her past connection with the military establishment , intellectuals tended to shun her and rumours had it that she worked for the Chinese KGB , the Ministry of State Security . |
| 27 | Oddly , she felt less happy , less content , less well able to go about her daily business than she had in the three painful months of her sexual abstinence . |
| 28 | Jack was busy , dealing with a nasty fracture , so she went to the nursing station and picked up the phone . |
| 29 | No , no ; that sounded too much like the Bible , so she plumped for the simple way and finished , ‘ He has given her a baby . ’ |
| 30 | She suddenly wanted to throw something at him , anything , needing to hurt him as she was hurting , but could n't actually reach his ambitious heart , so she aimed for the next best thing : his self-respect . |