Example sentences of "[subord] she [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother had been taken ill suddenly and at once removed to hospital , where she died within a few days . |
| 2 | Faye had been taken to Labour and Delivery , where she waited in a private room for Dr Greene 's arrival . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Publication paved the way for an exciting tour of lectures , in the UK , New Zealand and her native Australia , culminating in the award at Sydney University — where she graduated with a double first in mathematics and physics in 1939 . |
| 6 | On impulse , she bought a recently published history of the region under the Occupation and took it to a pavement café , where she sat under a gaudy sunshade , idly sipping coffee and glancing through her book , but finding the passing show around her far more diverting . |
| 7 | He was holding her there without duress , pinning her where she sat by the sheer magnetism of his physical presence . |
| 8 | She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time . |
| 9 | Luciana Mottola Colban discussed the plans with Danièle Giraudy , one of the minds behind the Pompidou Centre , where she worked in an educational role for eight years , before becoming director of the Musée Picasso at Antibes , and then moving on to the Musée des Arts Decoratifs as Director in 1991 . |
| 10 | Although she felt like a little girl who had gone into the wrong party room , she was determined that this woman would not keep her away from her husband . |
| 11 | That , she knew full well , she could do nothing about , although she disapproved of the whole set-up . |
| 12 | Theda could barely repress a sigh of relief , although she wondered at the strange way the woman spoke . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | No sooner had she said it than she burst into a dry hard sobbing . |
| 15 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Jack was busy , dealing with a nasty fracture , so she went to the nursing station and picked up the phone . |
| 18 | Lucy had no intention of reverting to the former subject , so she said in a determined voice , ‘ I would like to get on with the job . |
| 19 | No , no ; that sounded too much like the Bible , so she plumped for the simple way and finished , ‘ He has given her a baby . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Her parents are dead , so she lives with an unkind aunt and her children . |
| 22 | Rachel was n't expecting her family to arrive until late morning so she decided on a quick visit to the occupational health centre to see if by any remote chance David might be there . |
| 23 | He remained as tenant , as did his sister after him until she died in the late sixties . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm showing Melanie the neighbourhood , ’ said Finn , clutching his sister 's shoulders and rocking her kneeling form to and fro in an embrace which made her laugh soundlessly until she looked like a young girl . |
| 25 | Laying her basket down , she ran towards the shriek , her feet slipping on the loose ground as she came under the trees , until she finished with an uncontrollable slide that landed her almost on top of Oz . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | All went well until she came to a small boy in the second row . |
| 29 | Meryl tucked the papers under her arm and decided to walk around the boundary until she came to an alternative entrance . |
| 30 | 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 . |