Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the inside page she was astonished to see a photograph of herself dressed as Ptolemy , accompanied by a short paragraph describing her as a ‘ touchingly pert example of a young and ambitious actress ’ . |
| 2 | do the normal routine she does she 'll maybe think . |
| 3 | On the surface everything was going quite smoothly , with her asking the questions and Luke answering politely , but underneath the polite façade she could sense other emotions bubbling furiously . |
| 4 | She slapped a handful of cold cream on her face and tissued off the exaggerated make-up she 'd worn for the showing , pulled her hair back into a ponytail , laced on her canvas sneakers , and stalked back to the showroom where Raimondo was hovering over a glowering Nicolo . |
| 5 | A passageway crossed left and right before her ; a little way along the right-hand corridor she could see a wide opening in the wall , and through it the first few steps of a wide staircase leading upwards . |
| 6 | It was such a big place and nobody seemed to know the whereabouts of the junior physician she was asking for . |
| 7 | Framed in the narrow window she saw the landscape , lit and brilliant as the background of a painting . |
| 8 | The denuded chest she pushed against a wall . |
| 9 | Looking at it , Jess thought it the grandest place she 'd ever seen . |
| 10 | It did not take them long to make their minds up : mobility , Jessica said , was the nicest thing she knew about being well-off . |
| 11 | Some of her friends had fairly eccentric ideas of bed-sitter decoration , and had done far better than the Chianti-bottle , British Railway-poster effort , but none of them had ever conceived of anything like this : and the nicest room she had ever seen had been the drawing room of a friend 's mother in Sevenoaks , which had been distinguished by a bare and gentle colour scheme , and some pretty Georgian furniture . |
| 12 | When my hon. Friend was a Member of the European Parliament she did a tremendous amount of work to promote not only her region , but the concept of regional government for England . |
| 13 | Germany is now the largest exporting nation in the world : in the European context she is totally dominant . |
| 14 | But from the tall , hawk-faced man beside her came nothing of the subtle serenity she hoped for , only a sense of controlled power that dispersed when he said prosaically , ‘ I 'm sorry , did I kick your ankle ? |
| 15 | Claudia was very impressed by the friendly reception she received . |
| 16 | The bullet in the groin at the end of Lipstick may be cathartic , and we may take a certain ghoulish delight in watching Farrah Fawcett in Extremities debate whether to bury alive in the garden the attempted rapist she has tied up in her house . |
| 17 | If the voter were unconstrained by concern for the poorest individual she would move to E 1 . |
| 18 | Some chapters ( written by Tim Madge ) just deal with Tracy and her family life that help you to see how she grew to be the strong character she became , making the book more personal than Fazisi . |
| 19 | It was like interviewing someone who had answered one of her frequent advertisements for a daily maid , trying to create a spurious atmosphere of equality and friendship that would compensate for the low pay she had to offer . |
| 20 | At the Mas Rose she hoped every day to see them riding down the white stony hillside track . |
| 21 | The coffee smelt and tasted rich , quite unlike the freeze-dried brand she used at home . |
| 22 | Beside her , the half-witted ostler she was dragging by the hand struggled with the guards . |
| 23 | He was the finest man she had ever seen ! |
| 24 | So instead she stormed into the kitchen , surveyed the two lumps of meat and the assortment of vegetables , threw them all into the largest pot she could lay her hands on , and fried them . |
| 25 | It was a bedroom , containing the largest bed she had ever seen . |
| 26 | He flung open a pair of doors she had not even noticed in the gloom and revealed the largest room she had ever seen , endlessly high , and filled with the grey light of the sea . |
| 27 | Her best time is 4:23.08 set in 1986 , and it must be admitted that the indoor mark she broke on Saturday was a soft one . |
| 28 | The rampant desire she glimpsed in his eyes was so clear and so fierce that she felt her breath catch in her throat . |
| 29 | He indicated Danny , Belinda , sublimely oblivious to the possible havoc she might have caused , and the others , who were patiently waiting . |
| 30 | Leni had taken pity — more than pity — on the young woman who was so grateful for a friendly German voice and so bemused by the political carnival she had unleashed . |