Example sentences of "[pron] she [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her duty — a duty in which she took consummate pride — was to ensure the smooth running of The Tamarisks . |
| 2 | Then there had been another science during which she took periodical gulps of her tea and the sleeping baby stirred and gave small pig-like grunts . |
| 3 | It also contained the piece of furniture in which she took most pride — a Victorian brass bed that she polished lovingly every three months . |
| 4 | His decision was prompted by Mrs Thatcher 's vehemently expressed opposition to proposals for monetary union at a recent European Community summit in Rome and a strident populist performance in Parliament in which she displayed considerable hostility to the idea of European integration . |
| 5 | Christina then became a self-employed economist-researcher after which she spent four years as the economics research officer for a major political party . |
| 6 | The series , in which she plays tough-talking Tessa , opposite millionaire boyfriend Adam Faith , has been a smash hit with viewers , attracting an audience of more than 10 million . |
| 7 | For Celia Fiennes , a few years later , it was a favourite town by which she judged all others — and generally found them wanting . |
| 8 | From the opening piteous pleas with shaking hands as the dancers sink to the floor in the depths of their sorrow , the choreographic pattern of the overall rhythm is seen to swell in size and intensity as the music does until there comes the gleam of hope , a quiet moment when a child-like figure dances in wonder at the ways in which she can explore not only the space in which she moves , but also the ways in which she shapes each part of her body into an ever flowing design . |
| 9 | There was always schoolteaching , of course , but that would entail the tiresome business of acquiring a Postgraduate Certificate of Education , or else working in the independent sector , to which she had ideological objections . |
| 10 | Her former Special Adviser , Patrick Cosgrave , recounts how there were only two areas for which she had any respect : |
| 11 | After her husband 's death in 1947 she co-founded the Albert Howard Foundation , which in 1953 merged with the Soil Association , of which she became honorary life vice-president . |
| 12 | Then I said I was here with the family and she announced she was having a party for the local English , ‘ a rather disgusting barbecue ’ which she knew young people liked , and she supposed we 'd better come along . |
| 13 | She also spent some time in her home country , Romania , which she left 20 years ago to live in the United States . |
| 14 | We were showing a Jessie Matthews film called Evergreen , one of her first films , in which she wore long silk stockings . |
| 15 | Kollwitz ‘ diary consisted of ten books in which she wrote detailed accounts of her artistic practice and other experiences . |
| 16 | Just before she left England for the travels during which she acquired this souvenir , Johnson tore up all her letters in his anger at her marriage with the Italian musician Gabriele Piozzi . |
| 17 | Wardle Wood bordered the lane between her home and Fordbridge , to which she cycled each Friday to the meeting of the 2nd Fordbridge Brownie Guide Pack . |
| 18 | At an in-service course which she led three months later it was proposed and agreed that a working party should be set up to produce a draft policy for links with parents and the community . |
| 19 | Cruzan , 33 , had been in an irreversible coma since a 1983 car accident in which she suffered severe brain damage . |
| 20 | She wears a pink suede jacket with a studded fringe which she takes great care to hang . |
| 21 | Ms Fahey departed from her employment in the Decca Records press office in order to become a co-founder of the seminal trio , Bananarama , with which she enjoyed multiple success ‘ singer ’ lieder such as ‘ Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye ’ and ‘ Robert De Niro 's Waiting ’ . |
| 22 | In 1657 in Marlborough she attempted to speak in the church following the service , was attacked , brought before a magistrate , and imprisoned for six weeks , during which she fasted six days . |
| 23 | ‘ The biggest mystery is why she gave up photography , at which she showed such flair , in 1923 , ’ says Sue . |
| 24 | For ten years , from the time she arrived in France — after a journey in which she showed considerable enthusiasm for the new life to which she was going , and very little sign of regret about leaving her country , let alone her ‘ dearest mother ’ ( in contrast to Mary of Guise 's grief ) — until her marriage , she was the fêted darling of the French court . |
| 25 | Miss Asher also runs her own cake shop , which she opened three years ago in Chelsea . |
| 26 | THE VISIT by Mother Teresa to Ireland is going ahead — but is expected to be scaled down because of her recent fall in which she broke three ribs . |
| 27 | The former result supports similar findings by other investigators ( Oscar-Berman , Goodglass and Cherlow , 1973 ; Turvey , 1973 ; McKeever and Suberi , 1974 ; Ward and Ross , 1977 ) while the latter finding is consistent with the results of another experiment by Cohen in which she used different cues and a different task ( Cohen , 1975b ) . |
| 28 | She held various responsible and stressful secretarial posts in education , from the last of which she resigned last September suffering from acute exhaustion . |
| 29 | This done , she whipped up a piece of tape , which she tied some inches from the bottom ; then , while still holding on to the hair with one hand , her other hand shot out and pulled open a drawer from which she grabbed a pair of large scissors . |
| 30 | She exposed the soles of her feet at the mouth of the oven … she drank gall and rubbed her eyes therewith … in her ardent desire for suffering she made herself a silver circlet in which she fixed three rows of sharp points in honour of the thirty-three years that the Son of God lived upon earth … she wore it underneath her veil to make it the more painful as these points being unequally long did not all pierce at the same time … so that with the least agitation these iron thorns tore her flesh in ninety-nine places … |