Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [noun sg] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the legal sense she supposed he did nothing worse than truant from school . |
| 2 | She admits in the final analysis she finds it difficult to make sense of the ‘ gratuitous savagery ’ . |
| 3 | Her relief was evident in the small cry she made . |
| 4 | One night Kit stumbled by , when Ariel was sitting outside the cabin , with the baby sleeping near her in the small hammock she had rigged up for him . |
| 5 | her hands are bound up and bloody , but in the foul-smelling prison she heartens her companions with happy visions of the communist future . |
| 6 | When taxed about her ‘ bossy ’ or ‘ headmistressy ’ role in the 1983 election she replied : ‘ Yes , I do believe certain things very strongly . |
| 7 | Before she knew it Daisy was upstairs in the tidiest bedroom she had ever seen . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , go , you misbegotten hound ! ’ added Lady Merchiston in the caressing tone she reserved only for her pet . |
| 9 | The days passed happily enough but at night , in the tiny cabin she shared with Anna , she sometimes lay awake and thought of her cousins , down below in that hell-hole . |
| 10 | ‘ I could be looking for something more , ’ she said , and again she wished she had kept her mouth closed , but he seemed to bring out the worse in her , and she could n't resist answering his insults in the only way she knew . |
| 11 | She was still an awkward presence because she was never relaxed ; there was an unnatural quality of alertness in her posture , in the intent way she stared at you as you spoke , in her sudden jerky movements . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not qualified to do much else , ’ Anna said , in the gentle voice she had used to Peter . |
| 13 | It was just that in the intervening period she had changed her thinking a little . |
| 14 | No wonder ; in her entire career in the Civil Service she has never typed out anything remotely like it . |
| 15 | Framed in the narrow window she saw the landscape , lit and brilliant as the background of a painting . |
| 16 | In the Far East she had protectorates in Cambodia and Indo-China and ruled Cochin directly ; further south and east were her numerous South Pacific stations . |
| 17 | In the sporting world she has produced very few truly outstanding champions . |
| 18 | In the other voice she hears a softness and immediately , softly then , she hears herself answering ‘ I 'll miss you . |
| 19 | She was holding a net curtain to one side with the gold-ringed fingers of one hand , while in the other hand she held to her mouth a long white ebony cigarette holder on which she drew constantly as she watched the visitor enter her neighbour 's house . |
| 20 | Editorially in The New Age she had encouraged and brought on new poets and writers . |
| 21 | In the first instance she arranges the marriage of Elgiva to the sensitive and naive king . |
| 22 | In the first show she builds an inner-city farm for kids in Sheffield in just 77 hours . |
| 23 | In the first place she had always consistently opposed fashion shows for her company ; she did not approve of professional models wearing ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes since they were not representative of her real customers ; furthermore , she had moral objections to catwalk cavortings as being sexually provocative ; ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes were not designed with sexual provocation in mind . |
| 24 | In the first place she sharpened her political antennae and manipulative skills . |
| 25 | In the long grass she found a massive , black , hairy spider . |
| 26 | In the second case she judged the problem of a woman who had to choose between a mature knight of complete probity and a young man devoid of worth . |
| 27 | As Creggan and Kraal continued to tell their dearest memories , night began to fall and Minch began to plan out what she would do in the limited time she felt she had left to her . |
| 28 | In the front room she started to hold prayer meetings that were almost like seances . |
| 29 | But in the hazy world she had mysteriously entered it seemed as wise a move as any . |
| 30 | In 1697 she made a tour of the north and of Kent and in the following year she made her ‘ Great Journey to Newcastle and to Cornwall ’ . |