Example sentences of "[noun] she [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A contemporary newspaper account stated that ‘ as the Abergavenny was laden with an immense quantity of porcelain ware and 27,000 ounces of silver she sank with unusual speed ’ . |
| 2 | The pictures she shot for the cinema were negligible compared to the pictures she shot for pure publicity . |
| 3 | When visiting us in the early stages of Christian Aid she listened with obvious incredulity to our talk about the hours we would spend in Church on the books . |
| 4 | As she hung the waterproofs in the locker she remembered with vivid clarity how his gaze had met hers after Giles had been led away by the stewards . |
| 5 | She was last seen alive on Tuesday evening after calling time at the pub she managed for Warrington-based Walker 's Brewery , |
| 6 | That will and skill she showed in large measure . |
| 7 | Curling up beneath the window she sank into gorgeous oblivion . |
| 8 | Pretty , vivacious and also a Roman Catholic , she delighted in Minton 's company , partly because his homosexuality left her untroubled by the passes she received from other men . |
| 9 | With a helpless sigh she stared into deep grey eyes that seemed to see too much . |
| 10 | For example , Katy Simmonds of the Oxford Polytechnic has described a technique she used with 12-year-old children with specific reading difficulties . |
| 11 | The structure of the work takes the form of a dialogue between an ‘ autobiographizing ’ narrator persona and an interrogative voice which raises reservations about the validity of the whole enterprise : at various points throughout the text statements and versions of events are contradicted and contested , thus inscribing the anticipated response of the reader in a manner reminiscent of the technique she used to great effect in her previous book , L'Usage de la parole ( 1980 ) . |
| 12 | Unlike Mr Spence she turned to creative writing later in life , after retiring from her job as a journalist on Chartered Surveyor magazine . |
| 13 | Moss Kanter describes the personal and interpersonal skills she found in effective change makers . |
| 14 | She balanced these activities with what she was good at-dealing with the public and solving problems , skills she put to good use in her part-time work with the local Citizens ' Advice Bureau . |
| 15 | Without too much difficulty she put on fresh undies and a cotton shirt-waister , then sat in an easy chair by the open window to eat her lunch . |
| 16 | So she begged Jack to let her go for a swim , as it was so hot that day , out to the reef , where she could find the weed she needed in fresh , young supply . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , ’ she agreed , with an uneasy tug at the collar of the coral-pink shirt she wore with well-cut though much washed jeans . |
| 18 | For a few minutes she stood in shocked silence ; she had been so sure that the rider from the woods had been herself … but now , realizing that the lover she had seen had been Morthen , she felt angry and upset . |
| 19 | The novelist and playwright Clemence Dane ( Winifred Ashton was her real name ) was celebrated for the matchless bloomers she delivered with apparent innocence and ( for her friends ) alarming ease . |
| 20 | For two days she remained at large despite a posse of pupils carrying out an inch-by-inch search of the building . |
| 21 | With a hoarse cry she went into violent climax , her body possessed by the pulse that roared in her ears , her heart , her stomach , her thighs and made her limbs spasm and twist in ecstasy beneath him — no longer human , no longer conscious , no longer caring about anything except the dark flood of pleasure that rushed through her and shook her till she rattled and writhed to a hot , pulsing oblivion on his body . |
| 22 | With the end of the war she returned to professional duties and reorganized departmental teaching , particularly expanding part ii of the tripos in archaeology and anthropology . |
| 23 | As she paced , unaware of the picture she presented of extreme agitation , she looked only at the ground , and so did not know that she was observed . |
| 24 | When a car engine sounded in the distance she said with evident relief : ‘ That will be uncle , I expect . ’ |
| 25 | The walls are painted a pale , clear Christmas green mixed by Veronica in tones of a colour she copied from Chinese lacquerware . |
| 26 | At lunchtime she was taken across the road to the paper 's local , The Cross Keys , to meet the gang , at which initiation she remembered in particular a short , genial , Punch-like ‘ ex-RAF type ’ ( as he liked to call himself ) named Arthur Eperon , who later became a well-known travel writer . |
| 27 | For a while she camped with other families in fields nearby . |
| 28 | And almost every day she went for long walks on the moors with her dog , Keeper . |
| 29 | By day she remained behind locked doors in the room near the north wing which her two sons had shared . |
| 30 | That day she dressed with extra care , choosing the brown velvet habit which set off her complexion and deepened the amber of her eyes . |