Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [Wh adv] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | On some journeys she was accompanied by relations , but on her ‘ Great Journey ’ in 1698 she travelled on horseback with only one or two servants , staying at inns or at private houses where she had family connections . |
| 2 | So she ran through those utterly devastating transformations when she had been In Love , desperately seeking patterns , pointers — digging for something to bring back her joy , her I will survive . |
| 3 | She was an emotional artist and woman with a lively intelligence , charming journalists wherever she went . |
| 4 | There were so few homes where she could relax and , without talking about the hidden things , not be consciously hiding them . |
| 5 | But he had gone only a few paces when she called to him . |
| 6 | She had taken a very few steps when she heard someone running up behind her . |
| 7 | She caused a few titters when she said she 'd held the court in the church for the convenience of all parties . |
| 8 | But everyone says it would be a mistake to dismiss Mrs Shephard as ‘ a mumsy suburban type ’ , even though she shows some housewifey traits such as walking from Westminster to a West End restaurant in a pair of sensible shoes where she will then change into high heels carried in a plastic bag . |
| 9 | She helped some bairns when she was living in the Australian outback . |
| 10 | She 'd even felt the odd pang of nostalgia for the old days when she 'd been a young wet-behind-the-ears singer , just beginning to make her way up the ladder . |
| 11 | Glyn was a lawyer , a partner in Rushton and Clarke , a firm who had been the family solicitors for several years , since her teenage years when she and her mother had come here and stopped roaming and moving at last . |
| 12 | ZOOLOGIST Kristy Bird 's love affair with Africa resumes in a few weeks when she embarks on a special project to study the impact of poaching on Kenya 's elephant population . |
| 13 | Nellie promised me one of her old dresses when she had a new one . |
| 14 | Luckily she had walked , or tottered , in the right direction , and after days which she could no longer recall , sleeping in barns and eating raw eggs when she could find them , she woke up in a Red Cross Hospital . |
| 15 | However , we had n't gone more than a few yards when she stopped and turned around . |
| 16 | The same scenario had played itself out in a hundred different ways when she was a child . |
| 17 | She supposed it was magic , probably it only happened when you swung your head up in a certain way , she would test that tomorrow , and as she dropped asleep it lay alongside the tickets of paper with the numbers she had written , and the tar bubbles and the sun that made red horses and brown splotches when she closed her eyes . |
| 18 | I asked Kim to put down on paper in a few sentences how she felt about her new shape . |
| 19 | For example , Denise Jodelet is expressing universal themes when she writes that ‘ the concept of social representations denotes … the knowledge of common-sense ’ , and that it refers to ‘ practical thought . |
| 20 | On the few occasions when she had been compelled to enter the water , she had stayed in the very shallowest part of the pool and had never for a moment released her grip on the handrail . |
| 21 | One of the few occasions when she had been really cross with me had been when I suggested he might have been wiser to make some sort of provision for his wife and son . |
| 22 | It was the first time the monarch had ever used a Thames passenger ferry — and one of the few occasions when she had arrived at an official engagement by public transport in the UK . |
| 23 | A strong smell of coffee emanating from the basement reminded her that Mrs Crouching , her landlady , was having one of her monthly ‘ evenings ’ — mild social occasions when she and her friends met to talk over important topics of the day . |
| 24 | The youngster was living with her former foster parents when she applied to the courts for the divorce . |
| 25 | It was one of the more simple reasons why she denied the pregnancy , even to herself , for so long . |
| 26 | Suzannah Reddan had been working at a pub in north-west London for six months when she disappeared in March 1988 . |
| 27 | On returning to the USA she joined the UMC 's Board of Global Ministries where she stayed for 29 years until her retirement in 1990 . |
| 28 | If Anne reminded me of a gazelle , then Mrs. Constantine was like a snake : supple and seemingly without bones , smooth , lustrous , with wicked black eyes like stones and shining black hair twisted up into a knot on top of her head and a wide , wide mouth with disturbingly red lips and a flickering tongue that darted out to lick the crimson lips when she was concentrating on the cards . |
| 29 | She had such a morbid fear of letting down her husband and the royal family ‘ firm ’ that she performed her official duties when she was quite clearly unwell . |
| 30 | The British nurse interrupted my sad ponderings when she returned to my room in great agitation . |