Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 's volunteered for nursing duties . |
| 2 | It 's a fate she 's accepted with surprising equanimity . |
| 3 | She looks as if she 's made of man-made fibres you see . |
| 4 | After that she was put away until they closed the asylums , since when she 's lived in that place . |
| 5 | But she 's secretly ambivalent about her friends and an open breach looms when she 's drawn to charismatic outsider J.D. who seduces her into an apparently humorous plan of attack . |
| 6 | She 's far from home , you see , she 's strayed into tropical waters . |
| 7 | She 's settled for some biscuits and cheese and a yoghurt and a glass of orange juice . ’ |
| 8 | Is it because she 's thought of last year 's holidays ? |
| 9 | But it 's not a simple process , the ewes can reject the lambs , so she 's held in this restraint while the lamb is introduced , giving it a chance to suckle and allowing the mother to get used to it . |
| 10 | She 's described as five foot three , with blonde permed hair , slim build and green eyes . |
| 11 | ‘ She 's sleepin' well an' she 's put on two pounds . ’ |
| 12 | He begins to shake , she 's rocked from one side to the other as she feels the tail thrash at the sea and Manjiku rear and toss . |
| 13 | These not only cause a change in self-concept — the way a woman sees herself — but , more important , a change in the way she is perceived by other people . |
| 14 | But Lesley Beattie , owner of the York-based Friends Estate Agency , yesterday denied that she is biased against male employees . |
| 15 | The bikini is tiny , three triangles of cotton crochet , and her ribs protrude so much that she looks as if she is made of corrugated paper . |
| 16 | Now the cartoon Princess stops at the point where she is clad in sexy underwear , instead of stripping down further to the G-string . |
| 17 | The daughter 's story proceeds serenely at first , then hits a sickening crunch ; raped at 11 , she is shot into wary adulthood . |
| 18 | The high society platinum beauty brought up in a secluded hot-house may look a million dollars on the show stand , but is all too liable to fall flat on her face at the first pinprick of adversity and does not stand a chance unless she is cocooned in protective sprays . |
| 19 | She is rescued from this fate however by Eros , the god of Love , who himself falls in love with her . |
| 20 | Financial arrangements have to be discussed as well , and the matter of her contribution to the household expenses has to be agreed upon , making sure that she is left with enough money each month for her clothing , personal expenses and pocket money . |
| 21 | Another of the sheets is ‘ Studies of the penitent Magdalene ’ , in which she is shown in two stances , kneeling before a crucifix and asleep ( est. £12–18,000 ; $21–32,000 ) . |
| 22 | Her international trade negotiations are already hindered by Norway 's attitude to whaling and sealing , and she is blamed for poor results . |
| 23 | Only if an intervention is effective not only in eliminating this factor , but also in transforming the person 's lifestyle such that he or she is removed from this conveyor belt of risk , can the effects of the intervention be expected to be apparent ten or twenty years later . |
| 24 | Katharine finds her commissions in the oddest ways , especially now that she is sequestered in deepest Dorset . |
| 25 | She admits she is attracted to comic roles . |
| 26 | A woman should never flirt with a man other than her husband , but this does not mean that she is oppressed in any way . |
| 27 | Thus , she is protected against general movements in prices , and will only be affected by movements in the relative prices of kryptonite and phlogiston futures , over and above those caused by general price movements . |
| 28 | She is milked for 10 months of the year and pregnant for nine months . |
| 29 | It 's a shame that someone as obviously capable of expressing himself as you is given to such bursts of undisguised racism and ignorance . |
| 30 | So much of you is given to ordinary people , suppressed , in ordinary life . |