Example sentences of "[adj] she [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the headmistress 's speech she had realized for the first time how little she knew of the world that lay beyond the school gates . |
| 2 | What little she knew of Mahon did n't suggest that , but what should she expect when genes were mutilated by chemical or neutron bombardment ? |
| 3 | Again she realised how little she knew of him . |
| 4 | So she began to speak , choosing her words with care and refusing steadfastly to talk about Johnny 's war , or of the little she knew of Johnny 's time . |
| 5 | She noticed Ian flush as she retailed the little she knew of their contents . |
| 6 | In 1899 she wrote of herself as in a state of ‘ waiting , not actually living ’ . |
| 7 | First of all she came of age , as I said , in the spring of that year . |
| 8 | It is all she thinks of . |
| 9 | All she knew of self and love she knew through Fenna , and now she had to send him away . |
| 10 | He was difficult to live with , impossibly single-minded over his career , yet none of that seemed to matter as she balanced the weight of her new discovery against all she knew of him . |
| 11 | All she knew of Travis was that he despised her and believed her to be a thief . |
| 12 | It had n't been easy at first ; he was n't her father and all she remembered of her own father was blows and shouting . |
| 13 | At first she thought of wolves as she listened to the furtive movement in the woods to each side of the river . |
| 14 | The first she knew of the assault was a motion glimpsed from the corner of her eye : a blurred form approaching her at speed through the thickening sleet . |
| 15 | The first she knew of Piers 's presence in the room was his light touch on her shoulder , and it was so unexpected that she almost jumped a mile into the air . |
| 16 | In 1983 she spoke of the general election providing a ‘ choice ’ between two ways of life ; before the 1987 election she spoke of the election as the opportunity to ‘ kill off ’ left-wing socialism . |
| 17 | Hopefully it would be the last she saw of her lesbian lover . |
| 18 | Ethel Topp told an inquest in Middlesbrough , Cleveland , that the last she saw of her 72-year-old husband Edmund was when he went out to ‘ clear his head ’ on December 14 last year . |