Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [noun] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one case the author was involved in , the widow ( after the deed of variation ) was able to convince the CTO that she only considered making the gifts back after a cocktail party she attended and at which the topic of conversation was inheritance tax . |
| 2 | Vicki 's trying to protect Jane cos Jane 's such a little bitch of a shit hole she ca n't defend herself . |
| 3 | Doctors told her she needed an emergency hysterectomy , but because of a bed shortage she had to wait in agony for three-and-a-half hours . |
| 4 | A therapist has cured Jean , 62 , of Ware , Herts , of a speech loss she suffered following her father 's death . |
| 5 | She was however obliged to heed the advice of a task force she appointed to examine the AGO 's operations , and which recommended increased support . |
| 6 | She could taste blood now on her lips where her own teeth had bitten them , could see blood flecking her vision , hear it pounding in her ears as she ran , propelled by the first hot rush of her panic so that when she collided with the rough corner of a market stall she did not feel it ; when she stumbled again and scrambled to her feet she was unaware of her grazed hands and knees ; heedless of brewers ' drays , the hooves of heavy horses ; the outrage of the passers-by she pushed aside ; the woman with the heavy market basket she knocked over . |
| 7 | When one woman tried to remove barbed wire from the path of a police horse she feared would get hurt , her photograph became the basis for a frenzied attack which ran the headline , ‘ Horse Whipped With Barbed Wire ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps she did , and when she came up against a brick wall she turned to me . |
| 9 | As she looked for a hiding place she could hear the voices increasing in volume . |
| 10 | When she followed the instructions and applied for a job interview she was told : ‘ Sorry , we are only recruiting staff from Ireland . ’ |
| 11 | Since a residence order was in substance what the foster mother sought , it was agreed between counsel for her and the local authority : ( a ) that the local authority would not object to the foster mother 's application for a residence order being made before the expiry of the six months period ; ( b ) that the hearing before the judge should be treated as the hearing of that application ; ( c ) that if , in the event , the foster mother were to be given leave to apply for a residence order she would agree to the formal dismissal of her application for judicial review without any penalty as to costs ; but ( d ) that , if leave under the Act were to be refused , it would be open to the foster mother to continue the judical review proceedings . |
| 12 | Penny was Sixer of the Kelpies , and when her granny had given her a beautiful budgie for a birthday present she decided to name it Kelpie after her Six , especially as the bird had a little silver patch on his throat — just as if he was wearing the Promise Badge , Penny pointed out gleefully . |
| 13 | During a hunger strike she asked to go to Confession . |
| 14 | As outlined at the beginning of the chapter , for the student to make full use of the learning opportunities available during a ward allocation she must be aware of what these are . |
| 15 | Eventually she ended up at Kirtland AFB , New Mexico , and after a less than spectacular career as a war memorial she was in danger of imminent scrapping . |
| 16 | Having retrained as a science teacher she is now at St. Mary 's R. C. High School in Hereford . |
| 17 | I wo n't go into too much detail — I remember Glenda Jackson talking about a theatre review she 'd read where every single member of the cast was listed — and at the very end it said : ‘ And Miss Yvonne Smith made a very good prompt … . ’ |
| 18 | Violet has mostly dug up her patch and planted vegetables in it , but she has left a little strip of grass , about three foot long , which she mows with a lawn mower she bought at a jumble sale for two pounds . |
| 19 | Besides , Mandy came over and started tickling her feet with a peacock plume she kept in a vase by the door . |
| 20 | With a nail brush she scrubbed persistently at the frosted glass of the small window , where something black ( dirt ? or some kind of growth ? ) spread all along the indented patterns on the glass . |
| 21 | With a disconsolate sigh she stood up , slipped off the towelling robe and threw it over a chair . |
| 22 | And using that as an exit line she stalked out . |
| 23 | Adebayo 's boss , BRE editor Ruth Robinson , worked with Arsenio Hal in 1985 , when he was the house comedian for an NBC series she produced . |
| 24 | Ruth had made herself up like a vampire from a horror film she had perhaps contrived to see , or some illustration in a library book . |
| 25 | DRACULA star Sadie Frost , 25 , was lost for words in a love scene she was supposed to punctuate with moans . |
| 26 | In a solo presentation she offers some of her latest observations . |
| 27 | Her National Gallery choices of pictures were examples of problems posed to artists by colour , and in a video talk she demonstrated how these artistic problems had been solved . |
| 28 | When Valiant finally caught up with her in a Medway marina she was found to be clean . |
| 29 | In a ghost story she wrote : ‘ Night after night for weeks she tried to make him come … ’ |
| 30 | This time she announced it was n't Mrs Brown 's four calling birds three French hens two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree she had been five gold rings . |