Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So how could she possibly tell her friend about the almost wild grief she felt at the prolonged absence of her husband ; the deep , stabbing pain in her heart when she remembered their wonderful night of passion ? |
| 2 | Guy Sterne 's eyes held a glitter of amusement , but a darker emotion she saw in the pale green-grey brought colour sweeping up her neck to her face . |
| 3 | To cover her confusion she enquired after the latest entertaining village gossip from Lucy , who was prone to whiling away hours at the ante-natal clinic in deep conversation with fellow village wives . |
| 4 | There are though , records of a talk she gave to the Royal Photographic Society at Russell Square in London on October 28th 1913 . |
| 5 | There are though , records of a talk she gave to the Royal Photographic Society at Russell Square in London on October 28th 1913 . |
| 6 | Apart from her looks , and especially those deep green eyes , she was cheerful and friendly and seemingly unaware of the effect she had on the unsophisticated young men around her . |
| 7 | His towers rejected the fear she had of the hideous , dehumanized sadists she had known at Mars-U . |
| 8 | With a sigh she turned to the next patient , smiling as a young woman carried a small child into the room . |
| 9 | as if remembering the steps of a dance she walked to the long cheval mirror in the bedroom and tried on the dress , a dark grey beaded silk gown by Bruce Oldfield . |
| 10 | At home she belonged to the local Salvation Army corps , but gradually she became bored . |
| 11 | It was then that she met ‘ the love of my life ’ : he answered an ad she placed in the local paper for someone to read to her . |
| 12 | One other peculiarity she shared with the four Atlantic states : she had great extra-European interests , though they lay across land frontiers in Asia rather than across the sea . |
| 13 | And every waking hour she chipped at the ugly block , sanded , scored , chiselled , gouged gaping eye sockets . |
| 14 | We have been promised a visit to another great showpiece in Peking — the Summer Palace built by the Dowager Empress last century from money she misappropriated from the naval funds ( so they tell us ) . |
| 15 | Amanda Bairstow 's principal boy was attractive , but , whatever the provincial accent she adopted as the fortune-seeking Dick was meant to be , it was nowhere near the Gloucester that the script ( and history ) specified . |
| 16 | She was Dr Katharine Ash , twenty-five years old , able to handle the admiration she got from the opposite sex with aplomb , supremely confident of her destiny . |
| 17 | The moment she came to the top step , she realised what the matter was . |
| 18 | When she retired from the RCM in 1948 she went on to run the Violet Melchet Infant Welfare Centre near Sloane Square , a job she held for the next twenty years . |
| 19 | Although the moon was riding high in the sky , and shedding a rather weird , eerie glow on the flowering shrubs and various trees edging the green lawn , she was surprised at how much more calm and at ease she felt in the soft , enveloping darkness as she picked her way carefully over the sand . |
| 20 | In the attic room she lay on the narrow straw mattress listening to Sally 's snores , watching stars brighten in the charcoal sky and struggling to push away the growing sense of responsibility . |
| 21 | This remark she delivered with the immense complacency of the wise virgin ; Clara could not help but feel that having men in only when things went wrong was not as wildly eccentric as her mother supposed , but as she knew no other way , no other world , she could not be sure . |
| 22 | In the Ladies ' Singles , Jenny Binns is defending the title she won for the first time last year . |
| 23 | When she reached the bottom of the rather ornate staircase she hovered uncertainly for a moment , then with a defiant toss of her head she marched into the shabby splendour of the lounge before coming to a lame halt . |
| 24 | Go on with your maps for a minute she said to the second form who were glancing at one another in astonishment as they heard the noise from the first form room . |
| 25 | It was a sardonic jibe , but as she reached out to accept the proffered wine she met his eyes , and felt jolted by the gleam of warmth she detected in the grey-green depths . |
| 26 | So too was Maud , the daughter of Holroyd Smith , who later recalled that auspicious day she rode on the top deck of car 5 after the opening ceremony and played with the chain of ‘ a very jolly Mayor ’ who sat next to her . |
| 27 | Half at least of her day she spent in the closed and sealed place of her lady 's captivity , half of her night imprisoned with the boy . |
| 28 | The next day she wrote to the General Secretary . |
| 29 | Nothing in her life so far had prepared Laura for the shock she experienced at the sheer animal magnetism projected by the stranger . |
| 30 | As she stepped out into the dark night she thought of the gloomy squalor of Bacon Buildings and the smile left her face . |