Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] [noun] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've done it again , ’ she said , twisting her lips in that way she had of showing disappointment with herself . |
| 2 | Bearing witness in Great Torrington she was sent to Exeter prison , long detained before trial , and finally ‘ Whipt till the Blood ran down my back ’ . |
| 3 | Like her heroine in Prime Suspect she found success the hard way … |
| 4 | If you send men into the forest you will find her frozen corpse in that cave she called her home . |
| 5 | She threatened them , she menaced them , and one day in this vein she would marry one of them . |
| 6 | Well I had Mrs in this morning she had a tooth out this morning and he broke it and he tried to get the rest out you know using a special instrument and he twisted it and a fragment of the tooth come off and hit me straight in the eye . |
| 7 | The former Soviet international has established herself as the world 's leading female middle distance runner in recent years she won the 1500 metres and 3,000 metres at the inaugural World Championships in Rome in 1987 and finished third and first respectively in the same events at the Seoul Olympics a year later . |
| 8 | You know ’ he added thoughtfully ‘ if she 's keeping any secrets in that place she 's not trying very hard with a back-door lock like that . |
| 9 | The prince always let her spend her money in any way she liked . |
| 10 | She can use the role in any way she likes . |
| 11 | Rather than organizing mass midnight meetings to confront the evil in working-class areas she judged it more effective for women to go into the ‘ dens of infamy ’ in the morning as friends and advisers . |
| 12 | Seeing Curtis at the door in that way she did not need him to repeat his announcement . |
| 13 | Kathmandu : THE PRINCESS of Wales strained her ankle yesterday on a pebbly path in Nepal 's Himalayan foothills — but went on to tease puffing press photographers who still could not match her pace.The Princess walked briskly through the rough , rocky terrain on a walkabout during the second day of her solo visit to Nepal.After straining her ankle on a pebbled road in Dharan in eastern Nepal she began to limp slightly , but her pace still left Overseas Development Minister Baroness Chalker and several photographers gasping for breath.The Princess could not resist the temptation to chide them . |
| 14 | Little wonder that Ellie learned from an early age to defend Patsy in any way she could . |
| 15 | Her first detective novel , The Man in the Queue , a highly accomplished piece of a work for a novice hand , was published in 1929 under the pseudonym of Gordon Daviot — the name by which she preferred to be known , in both public and private — though for her seven other works in this genre she took the name Josephine Tey . |
| 16 | If the therapist had approached the problem in this way she may well have avoided alienating herself from both the patient and her parents and thereby becoming largely ineffective . |
| 17 | Galway Area Ladies ' representative since 1989 , Marian has been a branch representative in most locations she has worked since 1975 . |
| 18 | For the second time in two days she had been bought and sold . |
| 19 | It is the first time in recent memory she has missed the ceremony . |
| 20 | It was the fourth time in five years she had been injured in the line of duty . |
| 21 | For the first time in many months she contemplated the uncontemplatable , and thought that it might not be so with him , even though her heart began to thud uncomfortably at the very idea . |
| 22 | And in her final words to Wilekin in this exchange she manages to give an ambiguous hint that she may be prepared to entertain Wilekin — along with her husband : ( " You could go home , dear brother . |