Example sentences of "[noun] she [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ships had some 10 miles to go ; the MLs had used their extra fuel and filled the spare tanks with seawater as they stole into the estuary in two columns , headed by MGB 314 : These motorboats are difficult to handle at slow speed and Campbeltown was sluggish , but at speed she drew an extra foot aft and every inch counted as she came towards the mud . |
| 2 | Without so much as a backward glance she left the room , indignation clear in the rigidity of her spine as his mocking laugh rang out behind her . |
| 3 | On the southern side she saw the mandarin silks of the beginnings of civilisation and the huge courage of the Long March ; and on the other , to the north , the eternal silence of the greatest desolation . |
| 4 | She had seen that instantly the next afternoon ; in Rachel 's eyes she recognised the same melting joy as she had seen in Lisa 's . |
| 5 | When she fluttered the long lashes of her baby blue eyes she had the timeless charm of Olive Oyl or Betty Boop . |
| 6 | losing her eyes she felt the warmth spreading throughout her body , relaxing her . |
| 7 | Her eyes , despite her years , still held their fire and , though her figure had thickened somewhat , to Katherine 's young eyes she seemed the very embodiment of the word regal . |
| 8 | When she placed Morndun across her face and peered through its ghostly eyes she saw the air shimmering with elementals , sharp-faced , wraith-like , coiling and twisting above the river , streaming out of the mouths and eyes of the men by the water and from the piles of skulls by the trees . |
| 9 | She lowered herself until she was crouched above his thighs ; slipping her hand between her legs she manoeuvred the tip of his cue into the moist entrance of her sensuous channel . |
| 10 | With guidance she picked a long , beaded dress with a side split and see-through sleeves , which she wore to a special anniversary dinner . |
| 11 | Well I expect she did but I saw Debbie Thursday night and she said about her and er I said er how long has she been in , she said Tuesday she had the op she said and she 's due , she 'll probably be coming out tomorrow |
| 12 | When Leonora returned to the bedroom she found the bed turned down invitingly . |
| 13 | Back in her bedroom she settled the little dog beside the still-warm hot-water bottle in her own bed . |
| 14 | Before she had taken five steps she hit the chain link fencing that was invisible in the darkness . |
| 15 | With Dennis she made the mistake of saying where she lived before he did . |
| 16 | Stay at Goulding 's Lodge , a ranch built for the set of the movie She Wore A Yellow Ribbon ( this , remember , was John Ford country ) and surrounded by high open desert . |
| 17 | With a sigh of satisfation she drained the last of her soup from the Thermos cup and chewed the remaining scrap of bread and cheese . |
| 18 | Even if she left the dubious sanctuary of the car she had no clue to the best direction in which to seek help . |
| 19 | About fifty metres from the car she discovered a passageway which sliced between the terraces . |
| 20 | Outside in her car she kept a tight grip on herself , refusing to let her humiliation reduce her to tears . |
| 21 | He asked about her journey , and sitting beside him in the car she recounted the mix-up over the sleeper numbers , enjoying , still , hearing herself speak French . |
| 22 | After jumping nimbly from the freight car she closed the door , picked up her holdall , and hurried towards the fence . |
| 23 | As an undergraduate she wrote a novel , The World at Eighteen ( 1907 ) , and she became actively involved in the constitutional wing of the women 's suffrage movement , led by ( Dame ) Millicent Fawcett [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | Then in her mind she heard an echo of the words her teacher , a martial arts master , had used time and time again . |
| 25 | Somewhere in her mind she registered the fact it was still pumping . |
| 26 | Over a cup of tea she regaled the old lady with the story of her son and grandchild saving the wounded squirrel , and , leaving her to pass it on to her companions , she drove back to the surgery . |
| 27 | Back at the hacienda she abandoned the horses and fled to her room , leaving the others to see to them and turn them into the enclosures . |
| 28 | As a result she developed a ‘ repulsion ’ to men and to her mother 's creed that ‘ a bad husband is better than none ’ . |
| 29 | Hell , it was n't her fault she had a scoundrel for a grandson . |
| 30 | She did what she could with her tousled mass of auburn curls , but when she twisted it into its usual topknot the starkness of the style served only to emphasise the weariness in her wide-set eyes , and with a little mutter of disgust she let the curls fall again , tumbling about her shoulders in riotous abandon . |