Example sentences of "[noun pl] [unc] [noun] she " in BNC.

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1 During her 13 months ' service she escorted more than 700 ships across the world 's beleaguered oceans , without loss of a single one .
2 ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job .
3 Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household .
4 In a few months ' time she might hardly remember his name .
5 Put at its simplest , it was jealous suspicion , for when she had looked through Barbs 's windows she had seen Memet 's straw hat sitting on the sill : he always put his hat on the window-sill .
6 However , being unwilling to contradict her parents ' wishes she took three science A-levels rather than the arts subjects she preferred .
7 As the weeks go by she begins to receive visitors at the refuge and when she begins to feel the marriage is over , with the workers ' help she starts negotiating with the council and housing associations for a new flat , although she also feels the refuge is home , a safe space that is becoming more and more difficult to leave .
8 Strangely , she felt more resentful of this lady 's peremptory commands than she ever had of those of the merchants ' wives she had previously been obliged to swallow .
9 Like all the other officers ' wives she wore a uniform of their own devising , pale-green skirt and shirt .
10 " I would go through agony , " she remembers , citing the instance of the British Girls ' Championship she played at Dunbar when she was no more than 10 years of age .
11 Where Janice is concerned , Stevely said he had watched , almost spellbound , as she turned , in the space of 12 months , from " a seemingly ordinary nine handicapper " into the Scottish Girls ' Champion she is today .
12 I arrived slightly early ; she was n't yet home from the local girls ' school she goes to , so Elaine and I drank tea and talked while we waited .
13 Just as she was bombarded by voices telling her to accept the doctors ' recommendations she discovered that she was pregnant .
14 I did not start on my own — a young neighbour was selling children 's garments she bought from a warehouse .
15 It is just as well that Plainsong seemed to take to the track on her debut in the Fillies ' Maiden she was aimed at the race because owner Peter Innes was a steward at the meeting .
16 Delia Cope believes by listening to Black women 's poems she is doing us a favour .
17 Doi ruthlessly exploited the difficulties which the 1989 Recruit scandal caused for the LDP and as the personification of the nascent Japanese women 's movement she was successful in attracting female voters who had become disillusioned with the political process and estranged from the ruling party .
18 When they reached the shearers ' quarters she became a bundle of activity , doing all she could to assist Matt in setting up the large barbecue , and then searching for dry wood to boil the water for the billy tea .
19 Of workmen 's rights she 's still a guarantee .
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