Example sentences of "[subord] she [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosalba tried to respond , turning to her friend and patting down a curl or two round her face ; then she adjusted the combs which held her friend 's hair behind her ears , where she wore small gold hoops . |
| 2 | Her own first excavation was at the Devil 's Tower , Gibraltar , where she found Neanderthal skull fragments . |
| 3 | Involvement in these issue areas , together with the need to attend to management of the political party , means that she normally sees the Chief Whip , Foreign Secretary , and Chancellor of the Exchequer on political business more frequently than she does other Cabinet colleagues . |
| 4 | She thought she heard someone coming down the passage , so she grabbed two paper towels and wrapped them round the offending literature . |
| 5 | Or the two girls and one is a greaser until she tries this spot cream and suddenly she turns into this total straight . |
| 6 | When asked if she thought Outdoor Action readers were being petty in writing to complain about blocked paths , her reply was forceful to say the least . |
| 7 | I 'd like to snoop in Harriet 's personal papers — to see if she received any hate mail , like Tom . ’ |
| 8 | If all the subsequent television and newspaper interviews are to be believed , the boy Lawson told Mrs Thatcher that he jolly well was n't going to stay on as Chancellor unless she fired that rotter Walters as her ‘ adviser ’ . |
| 9 | Now the sides of the hold and the , the chains used go down , they did n't have wires they had chains go down and with a big ring on the top and then when you 'd the door out , knock the pin out and the door would drop down the mud and cos the ship would come up because she got two side tanks on er a tank each side to bring the ship out of the water . |
| 10 | She has set up her own training school because she found conventional training schemes offered no scope for the kind of message she wants to get across . |
| 11 | Because she possessed this eldritch beauty so briefly each week , it was almost shocking . |
| 12 | Because she has mild heart disease , she may serve her whole sentence in the medical facility . |
| 13 | Because she has this afternoon job , she must get through her own work in the mornings ; but she gets her work done in the mornings in order to create time for a job . |
| 14 | She has even formed her own film and video group because she finds most training films ‘ a yawn a minute ’ . |
| 15 | She underwent a lumpectomy and then a course of radiotherapy , and was due to start drug treatment when she met another cancer patient . |
| 16 | But everyone says it would be a mistake to dismiss Mrs Shephard as ‘ a mumsy suburban type ’ , even though she shows some housewifey traits such as walking from Westminster to a West End restaurant in a pair of sensible shoes where she will then change into high heels carried in a plastic bag . |
| 17 | As clearly as she recalled that spring day so long ago when she had received the small wound . |
| 18 | When she asked her opinion of a radio programme , Mrs O replied that , as she had total hearing loss , she did n't hear the programme . |
| 19 | As she had little dress sense , only a vague fear that any hat or dress she chose might be vulgar , so she had no sense of a possible style in which to decorate a house , or even a dining table , for Christmas . |
| 20 | Instead , he held Karen 's hand in Manchester County Court as she sued wealthy fashion wholesaler Jonathan Levy . |
| 21 | She gave a hoarse moan of resistance and desire , pushing at his broad shoulders as his strong hands pressed her hips closer to his body , and as she felt that mouth claiming hers with deeper passion , and felt the evidence of his hard excitement , she felt her body clamouring for more , her eyes closing and her mouth moving under his hungrily , little gasps of shocked desire coming from the back of her throat . |
| 22 | She met the searching gaze , as she swallowed two headache tablets . |