Example sentences of "[noun] ['s] [noun] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the obvious influence of Impressionism in the appearance of Walker 's pictures she also worked under the umbrella of ‘ decorative symbolism ’ — belonging more specifically to a tradition dominated by Puvis de Chavannes , which was authoritatively identified in relation to Augustus John by David Fraser Jenkins in his essay ‘ Slade School Symbolism ’ for the Barbican exhibition catalogue , the Last Romantics ( 1989 ) . |
| 2 | I mean one is , Jean 's mother she is , she 's a millionairess in her own right . |
| 3 | As he took Margaret and Dennis 's orders she watched him . |
| 4 | I 've cut the ropes that bind me to the shore , she thought , and sinking down onto the arm of Meredith 's chair she listened , smiling , to one of the pirates confiding that when he was in town he consulted the same dentist as dear Johnny . |
| 5 | If it would have caught Meredith 's attention she would n't have minded a bone lodging in her gullet , but then there was always the risk he might think she was merely coughing — she could choke for nothing . |
| 6 | In her mind 's eye she saw the assassin 's mouth open and close , and on them read the syllables of her name . |
| 7 | ’ In her mind 's eye she saw the face of her father , and her heart was heavy . |
| 8 | Helen thought of the dark woman ; in the mind 's eye she saw her — laughing and talking with Giles . |
| 9 | Only in her mind 's eye she saw the image of her father , rather big , fleshy , with bulging expressionless eyes . |
| 10 | When the ruler first came in contact with Millie 's knuckles she actually cried back at the startled sister , ‘ Do n't do that ! |
| 11 | She rebuked herself for her timidity , for her first dismay that he had not shown more of the lover 's courtesies she had imagined from the fairy tales she told herself ; he had been too eager , obviously . |
| 12 | This was the answer , evidently , and still grasping her lover 's hand she made her way to the drawing-room , skirts trailing . |
| 13 | Under Edward 's direction she shared his reading : some Shelley , some Byron , Milton , more Wordsworth , Ruskin , Carlyle and always , Jefferies . |
| 14 | On one of her first visits to Hamilton Terrace in Bobby 's company she was told that ‘ the Roberts ’ were coming to tea . |
| 15 | The title of this chapter comes from a song in Oliver Goldsmith 's play She Stoops to Conquer , sung by Tony Lumpkin , a character who misspends much of his time in a tavern called ‘ The Three Pigeons ’ : |
| 16 | And if she got half a pig 's head she used to cut the pig 's head in half and used to use the top half , and that was where the ears was , and everything , boil it until all all the meat dropped off and then she used to put in er a big basin , scrumple it up in her fingers , put some of the juice in , and put a seven pound weight on it , and a saucer , and make brawn . |
| 17 | But for her insistence on being free for Dickie 's holidays she could have had a ward sister 's job in Benedict 's by just picking up the nearest telephone . |
| 18 | During her 13 months ' service she escorted more than 700 ships across the world 's beleaguered oceans , without loss of a single one . |
| 19 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |
| 20 | Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household . |
| 21 | In a few months ' time she might hardly remember his name . |
| 22 | A woman , described by two Portlaoise psychiatrists , had not only taken to swigging Jeyes ' fluid she had also become dependent on it . |
| 23 | THE death of a woman from pneumonia brought on by Legionnaires ' disease she had contracted while a patient in a Liverpool hospital 's newly-opened heart unit was accidental , an inquest jury decided yesterday . |
| 24 | Of the love , she knew he was growing tired but since her own ardour had considerably diminished after Pilade 's birth she was not disposed to criticise him for this . |
| 25 | On the bus to Alan 's flat she held the flowers carefully in her lap , then lifted them to sniff their faint fragrance . |
| 26 | And yet when she had peered down at Scathach 's body she had looked through leaves , through summer . |
| 27 | It was not the convent but the martyr 's pyre she desired . |
| 28 | Pandora , the first woman of Greek myth — as described by Hesiod — is made out of earth ; at Zeus 's command she was fashioned out of clay to be the instrument of divine retribution . |
| 29 | In between clearing up her parent 's affairs she was doing deputation work , visiting various places to speak about the work in Africa . |
| 30 | Ana had no trouble with her mount ; to Maggie 's surprise she seemed to be an expert horsewoman and Mitch too seemed to take to the activity like a veteran . |