Example sentences of "[prep] other [noun] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would have been highly embarrassing — and a lot of other things she did n't even want to think about . |
| 2 | It would make a pleasant diversion in a rather low social life , and in the company of other people she would be able to give Luke a wide berth during the evening . |
| 3 | All the time with other people she was acting , confident and charming ; backstage alone , the pain in her eyes glared at her from a bright-lit make-up mirror , weeping at the tawdriness of it all , scorning costume and plot and witty script . |
| 4 | Eventually , she overcame her fear — with other schoolchildren she had sometimes ganged up to cry ‘ witch ’ at Kitty , delighted when she ran after them , gleefully scudding away like infant demons scattered by Beelzebub . |
| 5 | Under other circumstances she might have found it avuncular but now it was oppressive . |
| 6 | In other incidents she might simply have placed her hand over the child 's mouth or nose , or interfered with its oxygen supply with ‘ dramatic consequence ’ . |
| 7 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 8 | He was a good head taller than she was , and in other circumstances she would have judged him the heart-throb type , with his dramatic dark looks , reckless mouth , strong jaw and a piratical scar across one cheek giving his faultless right profile the touch of humanity it needed . |
| 9 | In other moods she would go to bed for days , and have trays sent up to her room that were laden with stingy nursery snacks of mashed fish and junket . |
| 10 | In other times she would have been obsessively at her pen or her typewriter ; as it was , she harassed her scribes and possible scribes continually — to death , it would appear in the case of the first one . |
| 11 | It is like having an auntie in a way , but in other ways she is a mum because whenever it 's anything special , she always sends up something ... but it 's as I said before , like an auntie . |
| 12 | But in other respects she had had her own way . |
| 13 | The motif of the yoke was originally the emblem of Isabella of Castile , Mariana 's distant predecessor , who had been responsible for sending Columbus on his first transatlantic voyage in 1492 ; in other words she had been responsible for initiating the whole colonial process ( Fig. 12 ) . |
| 14 | In other words she herself is opening up avenues for all sorts of intuitive meanings . |
| 15 | Sien , he stressed , was that kind of person : in other words she was a substitute for something else — as prostitutes are — and from an inferior class . |
| 16 | Isle of and they sh what she went on to say is erm I hope to redress this in the shortly in other words she 's shortly going to but I must say I like the expression long fingering you know bloody idle you know . |
| 17 | In other years she had displayed appropriate sympathy about sports day . |
| 18 | But while this ‘ violence ’ is to be expected within the family , it 's not acceptable when your child does it to other children she encounters . |
| 19 | Among other pursuits she served for many years as a Stewardess with the Donaldson Line which took her all over the world . |
| 20 | I thought if I told him that he 'd be bound to make a proper search — not in the house , I do n't mean , I 've looked in the house — but among other solicitors she might have gone to . |
| 21 | If she is serious about knitting for other people she must do four things . |
| 22 | At other times she would refuse to let Rosengarten in the house , especially if Leonard had had a late night out . |
| 23 | Sometimes his concern with changing the way she looked amused Victoria , but at other times she found it upsetting . |
| 24 | At other times she would hold her scribblings at arm 's length and let the glasses slide down her nose . |
| 25 | At other times she would have the odd sensation that they were shouting at her , through a megaphone , from a rowing-boat that was pulling swiftly away towards a distant ship . |
| 26 | At other times she cut her hair short , wore a djellaba and travelled as a man . |
| 27 | At other times she conceded that her interests were pointless but harmless . |
| 28 | At other times she could be flexible . |
| 29 | At other times she wore drag , or mixed Mexican adornments — flowers , jewellery , braided hair — with fashionable western dress . |
| 30 | At other windows she could see tables with folded paper napkins and nickel plated cruets . |