Example sentences of "the [noun sg] she [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Emily Mahon stood in the kitchen she hoped that Nan would be warm and pleasant to her father this morning . |
| 2 | When she was about fifty metres away from the building she heard some people behind her , but she did not stop . |
| 3 | When she looked into the dark she saw corrupt towers and crumbling walls , high on the cliff , the rooting place , now , of gigantic trees . |
| 4 | Could it be that his wife Elizabeth , who was secretary of labour until three months ago , wanted another push in the campaign she launched last May ? |
| 5 | During the campaign she found 2 women with whom she could not work , they were dropped for the good of the project . |
| 6 | Memory loss by the state Erlend Clouston reports on the difficulty people like Debbie Finni have in obtaining treatment for brain disorders like the amnesia she suffered four years ago . |
| 7 | A MOTHER 'S instinct told Ada Hutchinson her son had been involved in a road accident the moment she heard first radio reports about the smash one Sunday morning . |
| 8 | In the distance she heard another car , and putting up her arms began to run towards it , waving and shouting . |
| 9 | After the service she spent ten minutes talking to war veterans . |
| 10 | When she went to fetch the water she felt sharp pains rushing through her body . |
| 11 | The Mainbocher triumphs were spiced with occasional purchases in Paris , but on the whole she found French clothes too imposing : ‘ I had better things to do in Paris than go for endless fittings anyway . |
| 12 | The caravan , one of dozens on a huge site less than two miles from Jean 's own home , was the end of a two-week trail of cruel discoveries that began the day she buried 60-year-old husband , Brian , in May last year . |
| 13 | As she closed the door she re-examined some cuttings she had pasted on it , jokes , cartoons , sayings , pasted on years ago , oh , years ago . |
| 14 | I do n't pay them too much attention cos I 'm busy , but I think Marie shows him the letter she got this morning . |
| 15 | And in the end she found two things . |
| 16 | She had said it , just in the way she said all things , as she might say , it is cold , your hair is brown , the sky is cloudy , and Gaily had come to accept her words implicitly . |
| 17 | They were amused by the way she consumed endless bowls of ice-cream or asked them to make her special snacks in between the normal meals . |
| 18 | Sometimes his concern with changing the way she looked amused Victoria , but at other times she found it upsetting . |
| 19 | ‘ And for all the way she bullied other people , she 's always been under that fellow 's thumb and so has Dympna . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ He 's never seen her look the way she did this afternoon . |
| 21 | For that 's the way she sees small gardens like her own . |
| 22 | You need to know everything about the way she buys , the way she sells , the way she checks up that that girl who works for her has n't got her fingers in the till — everything about the way she runs that business . |
| 23 | I 'm proud of the way she handled those assassins . |
| 24 | But that 's just because of the way she knows Nigerian boys are brought up at home . |
| 25 | What I do like about her is her confidence , the way she wears outrageous clothes . |
| 26 | In the bathroom she slid dental floss in and out between her teeth . |
| 27 | By the time she reached this point in her narrative , Lou 's eyes had hardened , her nostrils were flaring and her small-boned hands were gripping her knees like talons . |
| 28 | But most of the time she had tremendous fun . |
| 29 | She had saved enough to buy a length of material in the market , but by the time she had enough money from her wages to pay a dressmaker , the summer would be over . |
| 30 | She may be identified by the fact she has hairy haunches and cloven hooves , like a goat , concealed under her gown . |