Example sentences of "[pron] she [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Wexford ignored him and followed the widow to the sideboard from a drawer of which she took a long cream-coloured book .
2 In those countries she visited not only ancient monuments and museums but also factories , prisons , and orphanages , in which she took a keen interest .
3 From the theatrical magazines on which she spent every spare penny , she learned all that she could about her .
4 She led a losing diamond from dummy , on which she discarded the winning heart from the closed hand , and West was forced to ruff and concede the last two tricks .
5 Mrs. Bidwell , the Laboratory cleaner , had insisted on visiting her broom cupboard , under escort , and had provided herself with a feather duster and a couple of rags with which she made a vigorous onslaught on the bookshelves .
6 She wrote long letters home to Antonia in which she translated the other girls ' lives in terms that made sense to her .
7 As ever , Omi was in , sitting patiently at the table , writing one of the many letters with which she kept the tattered network of Brombergs and Ritters precariously bound together .
8 The act was performed with particular virtuosity when Mrs Crumwallis dosed them all with castor oil , an old-fashioned cure-all in which she had a fiendish trust : then the boys ' performance resembled nothing so much as an acted-out illustration for Nicholas Nickleby .
9 Margaret Thatcher and the kind of neutral policy analysis the tank produced simply do not mix : ‘ Of its very existence it sort of encapsulated a view about government for which she had no great sympathy .
10 She was an excellent shrewd local politician and a comfort to her at the end of her life was the defeat of the atrocious plans of the Merrell Dow Chemical Company to build a plant near her beloved River Blackwater , the last campaign in which she played an active part .
11 Fei Yen had dressed quite simply , in a peach ch'i p'ao , over which she wore a long embroidered cloak of white silk , decorated with stylised bamboo leaves of blue and green and edged in a soft pink brocade that matched the tiny pink ribbons in her hair and set the whole thing off quite perfectly .
12 Fascinated , Dr Neil , who had opened the bag and was beginning to pull out strange-looking forceps and a bottle of chloroform , watched her lift up her black skirt to reveal a spotless white petticoat , from which she cut a large square which she placed on the grimy table , having first cleared to one side the used cups and plates covered in half-eaten food .
13 Pauline , the highlight of whose round was the eagle with which she followed a wind-tossed triple-bogey at the 12th , brought news of how she had been attacked by a couple of bitches .
14 Miss Stobbs paid an £85 deposit for which she received a written receipt and agreed to pay the balance before her June wedding .
15 For Elizabeth — who had flown micro-light aircraft , climbed rock faces , dived in treacherous underwater currents and travelled the world alone — the visit to the remote camp near Sondwana was one adventure too far for which she paid the ultimate price .
16 There was no mistaking her sincerity , nor the obvious distaste with which she regarded the very idea of such a union .
17 She leased the theatre ( which she called the Royal Victoria Coffee Music Hall ) for eighteen years at a rental of £1,000 p.a. , raised from her own charitable supporters , but faced an immediate financial crisis as local audiences , deprived of drink or blue jokes , withdrew their patronage .
18 It is ironic that the right hon. Member for Finchley was pitched out of office a year ago today as a direct consequence of that ’ no , no , no ’ with which she infuriated the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East ( Sir G. Howe ) .
19 They were in the kitchen , Irene still in a dressing-gown , an ivory frilled cotton to which she gave a golden glow , and Nona in jeans with a white shirt .
20 She was reduced to the landlord 's daughter who served at table : it was the sort of anonymous commingling in which she found a great relief .
21 One , she felt , was taking advantage of Bernard and her by knowing about the business — he had requested some shares in the company , which she considered an outrageous request ; another had called her by her Christian name which was equally unacceptable .
22 The choreographer was Onna White , who had worked on the first musical version of a Charles Dickens book , Oliver ! , the 1968 British film starring Ron Moody and Oliver Reed — for which she won a special Oscar — and had staged Half a Sixpence in New York , featuring Tommy Steele .
23 For example every day when the came to see me she wore a beautiful new sari .
24 I suppose that to them she represented a fast , efficient approach to life that jarred with their more laid-back , aristocratic one .
25 These were the only weapons she had had against an apparently uncaring world , and through using them she retained a precarious sense of identity and integrity .
26 Just before she reached them she found a felled tree .
27 One fourteenth-century manuscript contains information about four : those of Catherine of Siena , the fourteenth-century Italian girl who became a Dominican tertiary and whose teaching based on mystical certainty of the reality of her union with Christ , with whom she experienced a spiritual visionary marriage , was given official Dominican patronage ; and three thirteenth-century Belgian mystics : Christina called Mirabilis from St Truden ; Elizabeth of Spalbeck , a Belgian recluse patronised by the Cistercians ; and the prototypical Beguine , Mary of Oignies , championed by Jacques de Vitry , the Bishop of Acres and later a Cardinal Legate at the court of Gregory IX who protected her and wrote her biography .
28 This might seem more than enough for one life , but in the Ravensbruck concentration camp to which she was now sent she met the woman with whom she formed the other crucial relationship of her life , with Milena Jesenska , whose own life experience drew Margarete intensely , if vicariously , into another of the crucial Central European milieux of that period — the Prager Kreis of Willy Haas , Max Brod and Kafka , whose lover , and early translator , Milena was .
29 One of her earliest pupils , in whom she had a great deal of confidence , was Brighton 's Julie Pullin who poignantly won her first women 's international title on the African satellite , 48 hours before Winnie died , and who went on to win a second title two weeks later .
30 Ms Raymond 's death came just a month after the break-up of her marriage to her second husband with whom she had a 10-month-old daughter .
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