Example sentences of "she [vb past] in the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There was little hope of falling asleep again ; there never was when she woke in the early hours . |
| 3 | The profits grew and the bank manager began to smile at Carrie whenever she paid in the weekly takings . |
| 4 | ‘ See it in its historical perspective , ’ Ellen comforted her husband when she returned in the small hours . |
| 5 | A number of years ago she worked in the social services department of Cleveland county council . |
| 6 | She completed her education in Croydon before moving to Guildford where she worked in the Social Services Department and then the personnel department of an Insurance Company . |
| 7 | And there was scarcely a shirt to be found that did not have the high necks and ruffles that she favoured in the early days . |
| 8 | Still lost in admiration , she filled the kettle , then set about finding what she needed in the numerous cupboards that lined the kitchen walls . |
| 9 | She paused for breath and his laser-blue eyes narrowed , sending tiny ripples of shock running through her as she took in the dark eyebrows , a strong nose and firmly sculpted mouth . |
| 10 | And then she took in the claw-like ends , curling inwards to grasp the stair . |
| 11 | She looked in the glass-fronted noticeboards and read of the societies that would be re-forming when term started , and the new committees and the sports arrangements and the practice times , and the appeals for people to join this group and that club . |
| 12 | How could one not admire a woman so clear as to her needs that she did not care whose flesh she carved her way through , who did not care whose sleep she shattered in the small hours of the dawn ? |
| 13 | Henry was almost certainly the victim of an ayah who , in the interests of peace and quiet , fed the child opium ; in any case , the mother had no cause to blame herself , as she did in the following verses : |
| 14 | Yesterday she was visibly shocked by the conditions she witnessed in the Serb-run camps . |
| 15 | She was feeling exactly as she had in the old days . |
| 16 | Although O'Keeffe did not abandon abstractionism after 1923 , there is no question that she limited her experimentation with it , and she never again worked as expressively or freely with it as she had in the formative years of her career . |
| 17 | Mrs Stych snapped back that all the ladies present must be well aware of the multitude of offices she held in the charitable organizations of Tollemarche . |
| 18 | It was a sardonic jibe , but as she reached out to accept the proffered wine she met his eyes , and felt jolted by the gleam of warmth she detected in the grey-green depths . |