Example sentences of "[prep] this [noun sg] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was about this time she began seeing more and more of Laurence Wheldon … |
| 2 | Fortunately I realized what was happening and went to our Old Town doctor , who had some serious things to say about this method she considered Germanic , and we were sent to St Helen 's Hospital for a minor operation and a re-think . |
| 3 | During this race she had a lucky escape when she fell to the deck from spreader level while aloft trying to trip a jammed spinnaker . |
| 4 | During this period she herds stray animals to her seashore cave , where she feeds them during the cold months . |
| 5 | The longest period for which her mother was left alone was for three hours and Mrs Cahuac worked close by so that should anything happen to her mother during this period she could get home quickly . |
| 6 | During this period she had an unhappy love affair with the painter Ambrose McEvoy . |
| 7 | During this period she published no fewer than ten books and articles in her field-the relationship between chemical structure and carcinogenicity . |
| 8 | During this period she also founded and directed the National School of Opera at Morley College . |
| 9 | During this period she fostered , in association with the Child Guidance Service , the establishment of a team of teachers to provide extra help in Edinburgh primary schools for pupils with learning difficulties : a pioneer concept which was to become more fully implemented in the years following the publication in 1978 of the Warnock Report on Pupils with Special Educational Needs . |
| 10 | During this time she wanted to exploit all the constitutional possibilities and consolidate a broad-based support around the civil rights demands . |
| 11 | During this time she is potentially infectious and any new sexual partners will run the risk of catching the infection . |
| 12 | During this time she was involved in various local organisations . |
| 13 | During this time she travelled the French countryside , and the result was an exhibition in 1989 which sold out instantly . |
| 14 | During this time she gnawed her way through two sets of thick leather straps and ruined most of her leg feathers into the bargain by continually ripping them off . |
| 15 | Millie was two hours under Sister Mary , and during this time she learned that the nun did not always bother to use her hand , she also used a ruler that seemed as flexible as rubber , for when it hit knuckles it bounced back from them . |
| 16 | During this time she helped hundreds of overweight men and women to lose weight for the sake of their health . |
| 17 | During this time she was introduced to John Stuart Mill [ q.v. ] , the Utilitarian philosopher , with whom she began a long-term unconventional platonic relationship . |
| 18 | During this time she drew the conclusion that Beardsley takes his penalties at alternative sides ( if he scores ) . |
| 19 | For this purpose she was admitted to a specialist residential unit for children and adolescents under the care of Dr. M. , a consultant psychiatrist whom she had first met when she had been referred to the family consultation clinic in 1987 . |
| 20 | For this work she received two shillings and sixpence per week , quite a nice sum for the 1880's when farm workers were expected to bring up families on twelve shillings a week . |
| 21 | For this task she was required to sign the Official Secrets Act — in case , I was told , confidential papers from the National Physical Laboratory in Bushey Park were borne by the wind on to her marigold patch . |
| 22 | Have to get you ready for this wedding she said . |
| 23 | When she 'd been doing her research for this article she 'd talked to various other people in the City regarding Laura Wyndham 's expertise in her job , and they had all agreed on one thing — she was at the very top of her profession . |
| 24 | As evidence for this assertion she will point to the fact that the rise of the novel ( the literary genre of ‘ character ’ par excellence ) in the eighteenth century coincided with the rise of capitalism ; that the triumph of the novel over all other literary genres in the nineteenth century coincided with the triumph of capitalism ; and that the modernist and postmodernist deconstruction of the classic novel in the twentieth century has coincided with the terminal crisis of capitalism . |
| 25 | For this reason she remained at Saint Cloud while the Ministers remained in Paris , since it was possible for them to consult the Regent if they thought it necessary . |
| 26 | For this reason she had doubted his claim that anyone had touched his papers but once the list disappeared she did not know what to believe . |
| 27 | Through this work she met and married a dashing test pilot who was the son of a wealthy Boston brain surgeon , had two children and lived in some style on Long Island where Jack spent many holiday breaks , lapping up the upper-class luxury . |
| 28 | If Thatcher survives through this year she will lead the Conservatives into the next election . |
| 29 | What was happening to her ? she wondered hazily ; after this afternoon she should surely loathe the man more than ever . |
| 30 | After this experience she was celibate for about three years . |