Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] [noun] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's better than that junk she 's got on the lower level . |
| 2 | If the wife is left any amount lower than that floor she can contest and will almost certainly win . ’ |
| 3 | And his smile made Shelley blush again , although this time she was n't as angry as last time with him for kissing her . |
| 4 | That would have been normal , surely ; more normal than this chill she felt . |
| 5 | She was blonde , like his Mandy , except unlike Mandy she had never had a chance in life . |
| 6 | In less than three hours she 'd know . |
| 7 | These less than princely sums she supplemented with three nights teaching , and sixpence a day from her frugal mother for tea to wash down her piece . |
| 8 | On more than one occasion she has admitted to being very intoxicated and I understand that she has stated that she had consumed about 24 single measures of dry Martini and lemonade , together with some white wine . |
| 9 | When she has somewhat recovered I will take her back to the specialists although you have done more than any psychiatrist she has seen . ’ |
| 10 | Yet the central point is that it is absurd to assume that any woman is less competent to direct her life than any man she marries . |
| 11 | She was far worse than any man she 'd ever met . |
| 12 | He was more formidable and , leaving aside the way he had treated her , more admirable in so many other ways than any man she had ever encountered . |
| 13 | With all he 'd got going for him , was it any wonder that she should find him more — um — interesting than any man she had ever met ? |
| 14 | The racing world was more fickle than any other she knew of . |
| 15 | For more than 20 years she worked as a physio-therapist in the elderly care sector . |
| 16 | In less than twenty-four hours she would be married to João . |
| 17 | Just shows you what her priorities are really rather than handsome man she 'd rather have her jewels . |
| 18 | hoping to dominate … the world of athletics this weekend is Gloucester hammer thrower Lorraine Shaw … she 's UK champion … the first from the city 's club ever to win a senior outdoor title … this weekend Lorraine takes on the best in the world as she competes in the AAA championships in Birmingham … the amazing thing is that up until this year she was a discus thrower … |
| 19 | I do n't know if I 'm going to do it this year cos this year she 's chosen , I 've got four , right there 's two the same which she usually has up those , like she 'll hang one up , fill one up and swop them over |
| 20 | However , with youthful if foolish optimism she had proudly assured him that she would find a solution to the problem . |
| 21 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
| 22 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 23 | Oh , no ; whatever it was wanted to introduce itself at some stage , because one night she was lying staring at the dark when it seemed as though her head simply filled out into a large horizon . |
| 24 | Aunt Lyallie must have been needling my mother while I was away , because one day she suddenly asked me , with tremulous anxiety : ‘ Why do n't you get married , Jim ? |
| 25 | She did n't know what she was waiting for , a miracle perhaps , because one thing she did know , and that was that Patsy was right . |
| 26 | ‘ I merely ask because last night she was unable to hold the torch steady . |
| 27 | Once a week bath night , now we do all these dirty jobs , because next door she had her own coal Lashmere cooking you see , and we had to make do with wood , and that entails cutting it ourselves , so our weekend , we worked Saturday mornings ; Sunday used to the day we had to do all the cottage work . |
| 28 | do n't need that many , whereas last year she had so many tomatoes and tomato plants , she did n't know what to do with them |
| 29 | She was still in shock from the assault and everything that had followed when that evening she went on impulse and rang Rosemary 's doorbell . |
| 30 | When that evening she made her way up to Helen 's flat , she found that Edward was there . |