Example sentences of "[subord] she [vb past] in 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | He remained as tenant , as did his sister after him until she died in the late sixties . ’ |
| 5 | If she believed in the Prime Mover she would be praying . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | While she shared in the bride-to-be 's euphoria , as the wife of the Queen 's assistant private secretary , she could n't help but be concerned about how Diana would cope with royal life . |
| 8 | ‘ See it in its historical perspective , ’ Ellen comforted her husband when she returned in the small hours . |
| 9 | When she looked in the little round mirror , she saw that she was n't falling to pieces . |
| 10 | When she arrived in the outer office , she sat at her desk , trembling , hoping Damian would not appear all day , but of course she was lying to herself again , appalled by her own desire . |
| 11 | She was spurred on to write 10 years ago when she appeared in The Gentle Touch , the TV series about a top woman cop . |
| 12 | When she cried in the first therapeutic session , he could not move over to comfort her and was surprised when the therapist drew attention to this strong communication which he had ignored . |
| 13 | She was feeling exactly as she had in the old days . |
| 14 | Weightless with introspection she observed her hands as she had in the Big Bamboo , with their veins like injured worms — big , workaday hands — and hid them between her army-surplus thighs . |
| 15 | Although O'Keeffe did not abandon abstractionism after 1923 , there is no question that she limited her experimentation with it , and she never again worked as expressively or freely with it as she had in the formative years of her career . |
| 16 | As the thought sprang into her mind she felt her entire body flood with heat even as she shivered in the chilly air . |
| 17 | She paused for breath and his laser-blue eyes narrowed , sending tiny ripples of shock running through her as she took in the dark eyebrows , a strong nose and firmly sculpted mouth . |
| 18 | She was dressed in black , as always , making Riven wonder sourly if she were mourning someone , but there was a bright smile on her face as she took in the battered condition of Murtach 's patrol ; the bandaged Hearthwares , the clawed mounts and the weary eyes of them all . |
| 19 | Her smile of welcome faded as she took in the sorry state of Jenna 's appearance . |
| 20 | It was Marie on her way home , her cycle slowed down as she took in the interesting spectacle , and Jenna looked up , startled , catching the gleam in the girl 's eyes . |
| 21 | Even when she was talking to you or giving you your change , you could feel her smile going somewhere over your shoulder as she took in the whole room behind you . |
| 22 | His husky moan of arousal as she placed her hands on his warm chest shattered the last remnants of any uncertainty she might have felt , and her arms closed about him as she revelled in the hard pressure of Ross 's body , the slight roughness of his masculine jaw as her silk gown was torn away and he pressed his burning lips to the soft , fragrant valley between her full breasts . |
| 23 | As she stood in the dark chapel , listening to the priest 's murmured prayers , the empty , depressed feeling intensified . |
| 24 | Emily sighed as she stood in the shabby kitchen . |
| 25 | As she bathed in the warm glow of first love , she was occasionally unsettled by shards of doubt . |
| 26 | Morse smiled wanly at the lady as she sat in the front row , a lady turning the scales at not much more , surely , than around five stone . |
| 27 | The following day he bought her a bunch of violets and dropped them on her lap as she sat in the prompt corner . |
| 28 | She had heard the arrival as she weeded in the walled garden , but , like Taggy , she had taken it for Diggory . |
| 29 | Henry was almost certainly the victim of an ayah who , in the interests of peace and quiet , fed the child opium ; in any case , the mother had no cause to blame herself , as she did in the following verses : |
| 30 | Monique Javer , the American-born former US Collegiate Champion who wears the GB vest with such pride and always plays her best for her country as she did in the European Cup in 1991 , will be the undisputed British No. 1 woman player by the end of the year . |