Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] she [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 In 1939 appointment to the Disney chair of archaeology distinguished her as the first woman professor in the university .
2 It had been uppermost in her mind to ask about Marc , but her courage failed her at the last .
3 Rain watched her for the last few yards , noting how the morning 's cheerfulness had been replaced by anxiety .
4 Then , with the notion of what a girl with such a name must be like firm in her mind , she made this heroine of hers arrive somewhere and without delay put her into the first of a series of conflicts with , behind them , a gradually increasing aura of mystery .
5 The numbing stupor got her through the next few hours .
6 Then Folly reached the top of the steps , and the woman noticed her for the first time .
7 Jeanne Rynhart , who immortalised the Dublin heroine in a sculpture depicting her as a 17th Century prostitute , said Molly would always live in the city 's folk memory .
8 In retrospect , it seemed that the Lord protected her for the first few days , and then …
9 Victor Sierra 's ‘ rubber band ’ possesses a great ability to frighten the life out of a pilot flying her for the first time , by apparently stopping if and whenever the revs drop below 1800 , when the most horrendous mixture-timing ‘ flat-spot ’ occurs and it all goes quiet up front .
10 ‘ You are not becoming a Brownie tonight , ’ Mum reminded her for the hundredth time .
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