Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | To my inexperienced eyes she seemed still to be floating far too high in the water , and I doubted that we would get away before sunset . |
| 2 | Although she felt a little guilty about letting him do it Sally found she quite liked the feel of his fingers stroking her flesh and teasing her nipples but when he tried to put his hand up her skirt beneath her scratchy petticoats she tried to stop him . |
| 3 | A woman standing next to her thrust a baby into her arms , and with her usual politeness she stayed holding it long after she would have liked to go away . |
| 4 | Well should have been really taking two of her strong tablets she says , you know , and she has . |
| 5 | And Ben was all she had for companionship ; those who would have been her so-called friends she would n't let over her step , and those she would have liked to call friends would n't come near her step . |
| 6 | In all her born days she had never heard anything like it . |
| 7 | When she placed Morndun across her face and peered through its ghostly eyes she saw the air shimmering with elementals , sharp-faced , wraith-like , coiling and twisting above the river , streaming out of the mouths and eyes of the men by the water and from the piles of skulls by the trees . |
| 8 | In her teenage years she had thought it out carefully . |
| 9 | Once she had stripped off her top clothes she slapped the monitor pads on and connected up the leads . |
| 10 | On her high heels she teetered downstairs to join her father . |
| 11 | It was no use waiting for Bella to answer her door : if it was one of her favourite programmes she would pretend not to hear the door bell . |
| 12 | In her early years she helped to start the Girl Guide movement in Swansea and London . |
| 13 | When she was in her stockinged feet she moved to get out , but Marc was wedged in the doorway , unbuckling his boots . |
| 14 | Since she started her contemporary romances she has really leapt forward . |
| 15 | When Carrie had some feeling back in her cold limbs she began bustling around to cook them a meal while Seb sat using part of the kitchen table to work on the farm accounts in the pool of yellow light cast by the lamp . |
| 16 | In her wildest dreams she had n't imagined that Rob 's wedding day would bring this ! |
| 17 | From their discarded belongings she had made a museum that recorded forty years of family history . |
| 18 | During her later years she was never visible till mid-day , by which time she would , in an upstairs drawing-room , be found occupying a cushionless chair at a large central table ; with a glass of port at her right hand and a volume of sermons at her left . |
| 19 | In her later years she never missed a hymn session on television or radio . |
| 20 | Even in her later years she worked on film and television projects as well as with a US daily radio commentary , The Best Years , consisting of homely reminiscences about the elderly . |
| 21 | Alter finishing work and her domestic chores she reported feeling " fit for nothing except watching TV with my feet up " . |
| 22 | With one of her fast movements she went into the passage . |
| 23 | But on her lucky nights she would benefit slightly , if she could get away with it , from defecting — refusing to donate blood . |
| 24 | Suddenly she rose from the post , some 250 feet from me , and with a dozen or so leisurely beats of her magnificent wings she was angling in to land on my glove and devour her prize ! |
| 25 | She found herself watching him as he carried their drinks back to the table , the easy way he moved , his casual dress , his ready smile , and in spite of her previous reservations she realised she was liking what she saw . |
| 26 | With one of her smallest smiles she glanced at Caroline as if affecting surprise to see her there . |
| 27 | On her unlucky nights she really would benefit enormously from a gift of blood . |
| 28 | Her good clothes she had left behind when she had decided to downgrade her status . |
| 29 | Through her half-closed eyelids she could see the tiny droplets of water glistening on his skin . |
| 30 | But in her late teens she lost interest . |