Example sentences of "[pron] she [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ranald fetched his harp , and he sang a story of a great selkie , one of the seal people , who loved a land maiden but warned her that if she took their son away from him , the baby would kill him when he grew up ; but in fear that her child would become a wild selkie himself she stole the baby and reared him inland as a normal man . |
| 2 | First , blood and urine samples were taken ; then Elinor was X-rayed , after which she spent the rest of the day being wired up to various machines for tests . |
| 3 | Private Eye is appealing against the record £600,000 damages paid to Mrs Sutcliffe after a seven-day trial last May , in which she alleged the magazine had libelled her by claiming in its ‘ Street of Shame ’ column that she had made a £250,000 deal with the Daily Mail for her story after a night of ‘ carousing ’ with the paper 's journalists in a hotel . |
| 4 | In December 1991 the consultant paediatrician in charge of J. ( Dr. I. ) wrote a report in which she expressed the view : |
| 5 | After reading the note , Blanche thought she would dispose of Taczek somehow with the same ease with which she refolded the slip of paper and slid it into her handbag . |
| 6 | Introduced to the children by headteacher Margaret Sutton , Mrs. Bulmer said she was pleased to be able to make the visit and presented the school with a tree , which she hoped the children would be planting in the garden . |
| 7 | I 'll find time this morning , ’ Lucy promised , sensing that Jean was seeking approval of the manner in which she kept the chalets . |
| 8 | She had not gone back to whoring , but eked out a miserable living as a washerwoman , for which she lacked the stamina . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's terribly difficult , I keep having to read it again to try and work it out , ’ Gordon says by telephone from New York , where she is enjoying the acclaim for After the War , last summer 's Frederic Raphael TV series for Granada in which she played the Raphael alter ego 's wife . |
| 10 | The studio almost immediately cast her in a cycle of prestigious ( if often meretricious ) ‘ women 's pictures ’ , including Edmund Goulding 's Dark Victory ( 1939 ) , which had her , in its famous climactic scene , walk upstairs to die in solitude with all the dignified serenity of an elephant trundling off to its ancestral graveyard ; Michael Curtiz 's The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ( also 1939 ) , in which she flaunted the Virgin Queen 's ( and her own ) baldness as the ultimate emblem of great , self-abasing character acting ; and , of course , Irving Rapper 's sudsy , multi-Kleenex tearjerker Now , Voyager ( 1942 ) , in which her repressed , plain-Jane spinster blossoms overnight into chic , radiant , cigarette-tapping womanhood . |
| 11 | Murray 's Just Jeremy , on which she led the dressage section from Thomson by less than half a point , has only recently returned to competition following a lengthy lay-off after an operation to cure a breathing problem . |
| 12 | This finding was not supported by Walter 's study , in which she estimated the effects of increases in national primary and secondary education during 1950–60 on economic growth during 1960–70 . |
| 13 | The most stupefying performance , however , came from Cecilia Gasdia , a voice of evidently limited power ( the second part , made up of arias , showed her physical limitations , notably in ‘ D'amor al dolce impero ’ from Tancredi ) , but her dash , her sinewy vocalization , her miraculous phrasing , the skill with which she marshalled the resources of her voice , all conspired to make the first half ( La Separazione , Mi lagnerò tacendo , Bolero above all ) a miraculous experience . |
| 14 | ‘ Affect ? ’ he threw back at her — most infuriatingly as far as she was concerned because she was positive that he knew full well this time the context in which she used the word . |
| 15 | At 5pm that day I went along to Anouska Hempel 's very individual and attractive showroom at 2 Pond Place , Chelsea , where I saw her really lovely couture collection , for which she derived the inspiration from Eastern Europe . |
| 16 | ‘ I will look after Celia , ’ Liza replied , picking up the telephone , and the calm decisive way in which she handled the situation sent Edna running off up the lane with Bobby , without further demurrence . |
| 17 | The best example of this was the way in which she stung the Government into action to do something about AIDS . |
| 18 | Though there are no shots of such obvious tourist traps as the Taj Mahal , I liked the way in which she equated the Jain temple at Ranakpur with the Hindu temple and its sculpture at Khajuraho . |
| 19 | Gertrude Stein later wrote a book on Picasso , in which she put the point like this : |
| 20 | After taking the measure from the child , Aggie refilled it and then she herself drained it , after which she put the lid on the brown jar and hung the can on a nail . |
| 21 | She had an odd , idiosyncratic way of looking at things — he felt she had some standards which he was n't familiar with , against which she matched the things they said . |
| 22 | The vicious force which was now her essence and to which she gave the name of hatred ( only this was too narrow and too petty a name to describe it ) was directed upon Jack : Jack on whom daily , as he looked at her sometimes so anxiously , so humbly , she smiled the smile of reassurance and of calm . |
| 23 | The other was in the article by Alexandra McAdam Clark , in which she mentioned the number of courts available in France . |
| 24 | Agnes , tanned , huge , all beads and bright caftan , determined to give birth in the lotus position ( in which she claimed the child had been conceived ) while going ‘ Om ’ , refused to answer any of my father 's questions about where she had been for the three years and who she had been with . |
| 25 | Liberal Democrat Councillor Rosemary Cooper said she had received complaints about the policy , which she claimed the council used to ‘ cream off ’ commission from the insurance companies . |
| 26 | Picture the public stupor were the queen to indulge in a 40-minute televised monologue , as Mr Cossiga did last week , in which she claimed the right to dissolve parliament , ‘ even against parliament 's will ’ . |
| 27 | Interfax news agency later released remarks made by Starovoitova shortly before her dismissal , and possibly connected with it , in which she accused the authorities of a pro-Ossetian bias in their response to the emerging conflict in the North Caucasus [ see below ] . |
| 28 | What would she write in it for the week in which she visited the fire station ? |
| 29 | Quickly realizing that the relationship would never work , there was a terrible row in which she threw the wedding ring at him and stormed out . |
| 30 | Best known for her incredible chocolate-coated performance as Nicola , the depressive bulimic , in Mike Leigh 's Life Is Sweet ( for which she won the LA Critics award and gained the admiration of pervy chocoholics everywhere ) , the 28-year-old from Rawtenstall is now enjoying massive critical acclaim and popular success on stage and screen . |