Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] she [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amanda was seventeen , and everywhere carried with her a sketching book as she now carried her religious pamphlets . |
| 2 | Beneath the heaven of feeling that he needed her were the remnants of pain caused by the memory of how he had looked at her the morning after they had made love . |
| 3 | She made her way towards the small window table selected for her the previous evening , but before she could sit down Silas came to her side . |
| 4 | But she knew , morning person or not , if Fen only felt for her the way she felt for him , she would happily be up at half-past three or even earlier , just to be with him . |
| 5 | There is the possibility of a major exhibition in Japan and here in our Salzburg house I have made for her a gallery on the second floor . |
| 6 | Maggie 's room , her own place , had been made for her the summer she was eight by Phoebe , Paul and Uncle Wong . |
| 7 | Since childhood , since her early school days , New Year 's Eve had possessed for her a mournful terror : she had elected it to represent the Nothingness which was her own life , the solid , cheerful festival which had seemed to be the lives of others . |
| 8 | The preacher had taken a girl out to kill her , but had made of her a weapon which could be used against him . |
| 9 | Police never traced a scruffy looking man seen with her the day before she died . |
| 10 | There was on her lips the slightly sulky look he had first noticed in her the night before , but she was fighting . |
| 11 | The word stirred her , and she recalled what her mother had said to her the previous day : that Cork had been her home all her life , with no suffering and no want — a safe and secure home . |
| 12 | What had the vacillating vamp said to her the last time they were together ? |
| 13 | She begins by recalling a remark made to her a long time ago by Larkin , about difficulties encountered in his private life — a remark which consisted of a joke to do with ‘ the impossibility of relations between men and women ’ , followed by the notion that ‘ women ought really to marry each other ’ , followed by ‘ but that would be wrong , would n't it ? ’ |
| 14 | Jane continued her career — if you can dignify it with such a name — on Vogue , where the personnel manager fiercely shot at her the rhetorical question : ‘ You 've got a private income , of course ? ’ |
| 15 | It might be said that the museum was Mrs Gardner 's revenge ; Fenway Court , the remarkable Italian palazzo which she built well outside respectable Boston among the city 's breweries and distilleries , was named by her The Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum . |
| 16 | This was her first big opportunity to reply to the barrage of criticism and , as she saw it , ingratitude which had marred for her the celebration last May of her 10 years in office . |
| 17 | I saw her on only one day twenty-two years ago : I have thought of her every day since ; not as a lover of course ( for years past ) but as a spirit apart , unlike anyone else that ever was … |
| 18 | Maybe , briefly , he had awakened in her a craving for the wild , the dangerous , the forbidden , but whatever had happened later had cured her of that . |
| 19 | My husband took off his underpants and Jessica sat in the car with them wrapped round her the rest of the way home ! |
| 20 | When Rachel had recovered from the customary burst of rage which Damian Flint so effortlessly produced in her every time she saw him , she went out on to the terrace , putting on a brave smile for her father . |
| 21 | He acted as go-between postman , and from time to time he walked with Helen across and around the Common and talked to her a great deal about Edward . |
| 22 | The demanding owner , Signora Caridi , insists on high standards and has drawn around her a team of staff dedicated to providing simple , spotless accommodation and friendly service . |
| 23 | His wife hated their life here in Munding , and what had happened in the ice-bound park at Easterness had become for her the final bitter vindication of that hate . |
| 24 | The quicker he got rid of her the better . |
| 25 | I did like Esmerelda ( even if I thought her name was a bit soppy ) and played with her a lot when she came to stay . |
| 26 | Instead , he had dropped her outside the Half Moon in Portesham , exchanged with her a few platitudes about the working week to come , then driven home to Radipole in time for tea with his mother . |
| 27 | And , now she had found him , there was born in her the need to give . |
| 28 | The defendants knew that the actress was aged 34 and was of normal weight and appearance : the article had heaped upon her the kind of reckless insults which could not have reflected an honest opinion . |
| 29 | Herman Schrijver had Lesley Blanche [ best known for her The Wilder Shores of Love ] and Ivy and me to lunch , and most amusing it was . |
| 30 | Has known about her a long time . |