Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she 'd been doing her research for this article she 'd talked to various other people in the City regarding Laura Wyndham 's expertise in her job , and they had all agreed on one thing — she was at the very top of her profession . |
| 2 | Julie Dixon , who was eighteen at the time of the murder , has been awarded an undisclosed sum by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board for the loss of parental support she suffered . |
| 3 | The class was not giving the kind of demonstration of good behaviour she would have liked . |
| 4 | The light above the front door was switched off , and a cleaner emerged from the theatre with a black plastic bag of rubbish and a broom , and began to brush the foyer , ignoring Jude — who was the last visible occupant — until he reached her , when he gave her a glance of such venom she decided to put up her umbrella and stand on the darkened step . |
| 5 | Sister Aloysius was wiping the hand now with a piece of rough linen she had taken from a pocket in her habit . |
| 6 | Caterina judged then , as she watched Rosa pin her hair , that the ease with which she , Caterina , won applause — when she danced and sang the cherry song , or strewed flowers before the host in the procession , making a little reverence to the monstrance on every third step backwards — was undeserved , the effect of some trick she did not want to perform but that came to her naturally from some evil in her , the same evil that had inspired her bad thoughts of Tommaso and prevented her doing as her sister , her beloved sister , wanted . |
| 7 | Few people were about , owing to the lateness of the hour , and the guards around the entrance of each tower she passed , glanced briefly at her and turned away , seeing only a woman of indeterminate age , muffled in a hooded cloak such as was worn by serving-women everywhere . |
| 8 | The surge of undefinable emotion she experienced was almost paralysing . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've done it again , ’ she said , twisting her lips in that way she had of showing disappointment with herself . |
| 10 | so he there and he 's flashing away his lights and kept his indicators on daft bastard she says and while he 's doing that some fucking overtakes see but he was already flashing his lights and puts his indicators on . |
| 11 | Rachel stiffened and waited then when Jennifer made no attempt at further explanation she said , ‘ Was it to do with your MS ? ’ |
| 12 | For five years she had worked at the Ashmolean before moving across the street to The Randolph ; and for the latter part of that time she had actually worked for Dr Kemp , amongst others . |
| 13 | Ruth was n't sure what part of that statement she wanted to tackle first , if any . |
| 14 | In The Emperor 's Clothes ( 1953 ) Kathleen Nott called the Christian revivalism of Eliot , Lewis and others no better than a revived superstition ; and in a scathing attack on contemporary dogmatics and the anti-progressive views of literary Modernism she remarked , in tones of ultimate scorn , that Lewis 's interest in the Devil had plumbed unusual depths . |
| 15 | She took every bit of sick leave she could . |
| 16 | Maybe life was too short to pass up the chance to experience the kind of volcanic passion she 'd felt with Roman last night … |
| 17 | ‘ Any questions you like provided that you know only your daughter can answer them ; the nickname of a childhood friend , for example , or the description of some pet she used to have , anything that she will know and her captors ca n't know . |
| 18 | How long she would have stared into his beautiful cool eyes before he chose to release her she 'd never know , because at that moment the band struck into the opening bars of ‘ If you knew Suzie ’ , demanding her attention as with an exclamation of pleased surprise she half turned to watch them , her mouth curling into a spontaneous smile . |
| 19 | Miss Jeanette told how in the early hours of that day she had gone with Nichol to a nearby beauty spot and they tried unsuccessfully to have sex . |
| 20 | In February of this year she was locked up in chains after giving herself up . |
| 21 | Through the ground-floor window of one house she saw a room lined with dusty books . |
| 22 | The effects of this unease she found entirely rewarding . |
| 23 | With the help of cosmetic surgery she undergoes a dramatic transformation to re-emerge as Silver . |
| 24 | In an ironic vulgarization of Christian symbolism she is ‘ delivered ’ from her marriage , her country , and even her religion through the purgative action of language . |
| 25 | But still the urge to express her feelings tormented her and at last , in defiance of that dislike she had felt on their last meeting , she sat down and wrote to the person to whom she had once been most close , to Mrs Browning . |
| 26 | We can go a bit further with the analysis , and look at what sort of young girl she is depicting . |
| 27 | He was some sort of a manservant , because above his dark trousers and over his white shirt he had the sort of striped waistcoat she had imagined such people would wear — normally only in films , though , especially as this particular waistcoat was striped in black and subdued gold . |
| 28 | Shirley gave Jenna the sort of suspicious look she gave her children when they sniffed with an approaching cold . |
| 29 | The sort of passionate encounter she had read about in novels . |
| 30 | Caroline tossed back her head , curved her lips into the same sort of bright smile she wore on the catwalk , and took Sabatini 's outstretched arm . |