Example sentences of "she [verb] an [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She made an awful job of it — ten times worse . |
| 2 | I was sent to a boarding-school — ’ She made an angry gesture with her hand . |
| 3 | She made an enormous difference in the house . |
| 4 | In the first show she builds an inner-city farm for kids in Sheffield in just 77 hours . |
| 5 | She represents an obnoxious type of High Church Christian , often typified by adherents to the Oxford Movement , self-consciously ‘ medieval ’ in her choice of early English saint 's names for her sons . |
| 6 | ‘ Did she make an official complaint to you about the attack ? ’ |
| 7 | She got an awful lot of things did n't she ? |
| 8 | She unearthed an ancient bicycle from some forgotten shed corner and proceeded to ride it from cottage to cottage , her sackful of letters stuffed compactly into a basket in the front . |
| 9 | She stabbed an angry finger into his chest . |
| 10 | An only child , all her relatives and close friends in Baldersdale had either died or moved away , and she became an abandoned person in a mostly abandoned dale . |
| 11 | Five years ago , she became an enthusiastic trainee in the Merseyside police training college , near Warrington . |
| 12 | On leaving school she became an active member of the Keep Fit Association , Laban Guild , English , Scottish and Irish Dancing . |
| 13 | Then she shouted an obscene suggestion at 65-year-old Jack and sped off . |
| 14 | But she wants an immediate cut in interest rates to help others . |
| 15 | But she wants an immediate cut in interest rates to help others . |
| 16 | Agatha thought she caught an odd note in her nephew 's voice , but at first a searching glance shewed nothing unusual . |
| 17 | The following day she caught an early train from King 's Cross station and set off on the two-hundred-mile journey north . |
| 18 | I feel , rather than see , Moira suddenly remembering that she has an awful lot of things to do somewhere else . |
| 19 | She has an extensive range of designer fabrics including Henry Newbury , Gainsborough & Percheron . |
| 20 | Under the established system for electing members to the House of Commons , each elector has only one vote in a general election ; each constituency returns only one Member of Parliament ; and Members of the House of Commons are elected on a first-past-the-post ( winner takes all ) system whereby the candidate with the most votes wins the seat whether or not he or she has an overall majority of all the votes cast in the constituency . |
| 21 | And at almost six foot tall , with a mane of thick hair and a fascinating face which can be transformed from seriously plain to startlingly attractive — witnessed by her TV debut success in The Life And Love Of A She-Devil — she has an extra-large helping of outspoken opinions to match . |
| 22 | If food is short and she is desperate to feed her family she has an obvious motive for taking available and easy prey . |
| 23 | She has an infinite capacity for humility and sacrifice and an abundant store of patience . |
| 24 | ‘ If the creditor takes adequate steps to inform her and reasonably supposes that she has an adequate comprehension of the obligations she is undertaking and an understanding of the effect of the transaction , the fact that she failed to grasp some material part of the document , or , indeed , the significance of what she was doing , can not , I think , in itself give her an equity to set aside , notwithstanding that at an earlier stage the creditor relied upon her husband to obtain her consent to enter into the obligation of surety . |
| 25 | She has an excellent place in a girls ’ boarding-school in Worcestershire . ’ |
| 26 | So ambitious it hurts , but she has an intense need for recognition . |
| 27 | She cast an impatient look at Mitch , who was standing with the same stunned attitude he had adopted when he had seen that the girl was blind . |
| 28 | She cast an appraising eye over the clean kitchen and listened to the music of the sizzling pie . |
| 29 | She cast an anguished look at Guy . |
| 30 | In the early years of her reign Elizabeth was faced with an urgent crisis on her northern border , and in 1562–4 she pursued an expensive adventure into France . |