Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun sg] she " in BNC.

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1 As she worked the crochet table-mats her mother had ordered , the intricate sequence of stitches could blot out for a moment or two the scenes that daily since that Easter feast she had staged between herself and Tommaso Talvi .
2 she said no , Jean said oh I ca n't walk that , have a bloody heart attack she says , so they put her in a trolley
3 If I 'd have thought about it , that wedding cake she give me
4 Elise Fox was a woman who prided herself on her ability to deal with crisis , but at eleven o'clock that Saturday night she still lay limp on the sofa in the flat , looking utterly shattered when her young sister came in from the kitchen with yet another pot of strong black coffee .
5 That Saturday evening she joined the passeggiata , with her hair pulled flat against her skull to smooth its crinkles and bring out its sheen , and the gold medallion of the Madonna she had received for her first communion hanging bright against the new pale shawl she had crocheted herself .
6 Having said she would never teach she found it the only way to keep up her Mathematics and bring up a family , so via an evening Technical College Lectureship she slipped into school teaching and has enjoyed it !
7 Beautiful curly dark hair she had .
8 Tim was looking through an old photograph album she 'd put out , with pictures of previous Christmases .
9 They felt the probable cause was the long period of high blood pressure she had experienced before and after the birth of her child .
10 Not having the culinary skills to extract nourishment from this household item she passed on to her second request ; could she have money to buy uniforms for her kids to go to their new school ?
11 Cos our Corrinne must have fetched me some drinking chocolate she fetched me .
12 Oh , if it 's an old facial thing she 's getting real fatter ?
13 The network of health and social work support she had enjoyed fell away , but she led a full life and drove her own car , though she still lived with her parents .
14 Erm but to get into the social work department she 'll still have to do the that that
15 While she was away , she made a quick phone call to the British Intelligence number she 'd been given .
16 This Monday morning she was intending to register with a secretarial agency ; a temporary job would do while she looked for something more permanent .
17 If that 's the Sue I once bought a drink for — out of pity — in a certain low-rent wine bar she frequents ( Naughty Nineties postcards in brass frames and scrums of desperate shrieking middle-aged women hogging the tables ) , then I do n't think she 's telling the full story .
18 And then he left her and he went with this three masted top schooner she was , very fine ship .
19 ‘ Anyway , this Sunday evening she did n't turn up and the woman in Hayle had n't seen her — had n't expected her .
20 She closed the door behind her and joined him on the pavement and as she took several breaths of the crisp October air she suddenly felt how good it was to be alive .
21 ‘ She 's got this whistle thing she holds next to the receiver and it blasts your eardrums out . ’
22 It hardly seemed fair to keep them in the cage she had made out of an old claret case she had dragged up from the cellar .
23 Many times during this pocket lecture she could have turned and looked at her instructor , and put him clean out of countenance merely by looking ; but she had not done it because she was so sure that he was the young man from the entrance booth , a licensed enthusiast , and entitled to his brief moments of emotional escape .
24 It was n't easy ; as wife of the British Air Minister she had many official engagements to attend en route and needed a suitable wardrobe .
25 Paula asked , stubbing out her cigarette and concealing the end in an empty lozenge tin she used as an ashtray .
26 A 14-YEAR-OLD girl died yesterday after the stolen high performance car she was driving somersaulted and crossed a dual carriageway after a police chase , police said .
27 A 14-YEAR-OLD girl was killed yesterday when the stolen high performance car she was driving somersaulted and crossed a dual carriageway during a police chase .
28 Those who saw the 30 yard putt she holed stone dead at the eighth , or her playing of the 18th , where she hit a glorious seven iron to ten feet before holing for her birdie , could be forgiven for wondering what on earth she was talking about .
29 For although his daughter Maire never became a top ballet star she is a member of a highly successful family band .
30 As she was due at her weekly Patrol meeting she could n't stop to search for them .
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