Example sentences of "she [vb past] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lived in the Palestinian camp at Rashidiyeh , a wretched four square miles of breeze-block huts and cabins relieved only by the occasional tree , a straggling plant hanging from a poorly made brick wall and an open sewer that snaked uneasily down the centre of the mud roads . |
| 2 | She lived in the present tense of the school with its totally absorbing pattern of routine and minor rebellion . |
| 3 | Only she lived in the posh part , called Hove , and whenever people said ‘ You live in Brighton , do n't you ? ’ it was normal to reply ‘ Hove , actually ’ until it almost had become the name , Hove-Actually . |
| 4 | ‘ Sixteen coffees , ’ she announced in the cool voice that they seemed to be using to each other , ‘ followed by — er — ’ Consulting her list , she continued , ‘ Six rounds of toast , five boiled eggs with soldiers … ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Are you all right ? ’ she asked in the lowered tone that one uses in the darkness . |
| 6 | ‘ Not coming ! ’ she shouted in the dusty gloom . |
| 7 | She dabbled in the outer reaches of the publishing world from her position as a wife and mother : after the birth of Time Out she began to contribute to its nascent poetry section . |
| 8 | as if to lure her husband into a false sense of security , she pretended in the following year that she had gone to America and had hired a secretary , called Daisy Miller , to answer her correspondence in her absence : but she herself was Daisy Miller . |
| 9 | She managed to give the would-be lawn a rough cut with an ancient mower she found in the outside store , and now she was tackling the border where already green shoots pierced the earth with promise . |
| 10 | She shrivelled in the icy blast of his scorn . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , thanks , ’ Polly said over her shoulder , mentally crossing her fingers as she headed in the opposite direction towards her own cabin in the bow . |
| 12 | There was little hope of falling asleep again ; there never was when she woke in the early hours . |
| 13 | She woke in the early dawn and peered around her blearily through the heavy mist that filled the wood . |
| 14 | But the best of Eardley 's work are the landscape oils she painted in the final decade of her life . |
| 15 | She paddled in the shallow water for a few moments before joining Stephen where he was setting up the barbecue in a shaded spot . |
| 16 | If she believed in the Prime Mover she would be praying . |
| 17 | She drove in the middle lane , skimming past lorries . |
| 18 | Now and again , she came in the other day to meet a , a |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | My poor little blind garden , what 's left of it , just up over here , near the top gate — and — ’ she turned in the opposite direction ’ — down by the river , in the old primary school building , which is in fairly good nick , they 're setting up a field study centre , and strips of land for school gardens . |
| 21 | On summer days she would practise her arabesques on the sandstone balustrades of the house and when the visitors had gone she danced in the black-and-white marble entrance hall , known officially as Wootton Hall , beneath portraits of her distinguished ancestors . |
| 22 | The profits grew and the bank manager began to smile at Carrie whenever she paid in the weekly takings . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She wallowed in the flimsy gravity . |
| 25 | She developed in the chief inspector the emotional equivalent of a skin rash , and made her wish for nothing better than to discover Christine was the ‘ friend ’ her father had met on Hampstead Heath . |
| 26 | In the mornings she walked in the formal garden . |
| 27 | She rummaged in the open jewellery box on the bed , and took out a pair of large drop earrings which she had bought in Liberty 's the week before . |
| 28 | She glanced in the rear-view mirror and saw the headlights of the traffic behind her . |
| 29 | She glanced in the rear-view mirror to see that the Audi was in pursuit . |
| 30 | She glanced in the long mirror and , apparently satisfied , opened an oak chest and took out a drab fustian cloak of the type customarily worn by maidservants of the lower order , the which she had borrowed earlier from the servants ' quarters on a pretext . |