Example sentences of "[subord] she [verb] [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 | That , she knew full well , she could do nothing about , although she disapproved of the whole set-up . |
5 | Theda could barely repress a sigh of relief , although she wondered at the strange way the woman spoke . |
6 | Despite his elevation of Pamela from maid to lady , a solecism that Jane Austen would never have committed , Richardson makes a much clearer distinction than she does between the genuine landed family and aspirants to that status from the middle class . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Jack was busy , dealing with a nasty fracture , so she went to the nursing station and picked up the phone . |
9 | No , no ; that sounded too much like the Bible , so she plumped for the simple way and finished , ‘ He has given her a baby . ’ |
10 | 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 . |
11 | He remained as tenant , as did his sister after him until she died in the late sixties . ’ |
12 | She walks from her flat at the wrong end of Ladbroke Grove , along the Harrow Road , under various stretches of motorway , past the Metropole Hotel where she calls in to buy herself a drink in the Cosmo-Cocktail Bar ( she is perversely fond of the Metropole Hotel ) , and then through various increasingly handsome although gloomy back streets , until she arrives at the arranged corner . |
13 | How deeply she 'd slept she did n't appreciate until she woke to the remote hoot of river traffic , and the sound of a pigeon cooing rhythmically just outside the window . |
14 | As soon as she reached the open deer-park she ran , and she hardly paused until she came to the broad track that sloped down to the marsh , smiling and vivid green in the late afternoon sunshine . |
15 | Then she swam along the bank until she came to the old pontoon . |
16 | She ran along the line , stumbling over the planks , until she came to the old pit and the line of empty skips . |
17 | and saying , what do you think cos of all the qualified ones at least she cos she worked on the elderly side . |
18 | She likes to cover up the truth like she covers over the naked light . |
19 | Her friends did not think of her as a drunk and Rachel would be truly shocked if she knew about the long nights of insomnia and secret alcohol . |
20 | She already had her travelling companion , Swimmer of Lakes , and if she thought of the wild horses in the valley at all it was simply to wonder about the legend of the tamers : to subdue the spirit of the wild animal ; to be permitted to ride upon its back ; yes , magic would have been necessary in early thought , and cult legends certainly would have grown around the hunters who snared the fast , proud creatures . |
21 | If she believed in the Prime Mover she would be praying . |
22 | Not sure of the reception she would get if she spoke to the other girl , not sure what her mother or Feargal might have told her , she was about to duck back into her room when Terry turned . |
23 | And what would happen , though , if she trod on the black — would all this simply go on , this bleak nightmare , for the rest of her life , sixty or even seventy years ? |
24 | Even if she jumped on the next space shuttle to Mars it would n't make any difference . |
25 | If she fails at the substantive hearing , that will be because the court will then have decided that it would not be in [ J. 's ] best interest for his life to be artificially saved or prolonged . |
26 | Unless she died in the next few weeks — and why should she die ? — it could be the end of his life on the headland , the end of his organization , the end of all he had planned and hoped to do . |
27 | Unless she comes to the front door , and follows you down the path ; or comes to the back door and follows you into the garden . |
28 | She 's wrong because she falls into the latter category . |
29 | All that was her due because she looked like the young Elizabeth Taylor , had dark brown curly hair nearly to her waist , large , dark blue eyes , creamy velvet skin and a wonderful figure . |
30 | There was a slight pause , while she relished to the full her own desirability as a pupil . |