Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] she [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hooded eyes surveyed her with frank appreciation mingled with amusement . |
| 2 | By then she felt that she had seen enough paintings , churches , marble floors and medieval palaces to last her for a long time . |
| 3 | The brown eyes regarded her in a contemplative manner until he said , ‘ You must meet Matt . |
| 4 | For a long moment all she could do was stare back at him , his dark fathomless eyes holding her in thrall . |
| 5 | Pete is a bony Londoner with a sallow but healthy skin and clean floppy fair hair , Ellie an attractive girl in her early twenties , her light greenish hazel almond-shaped eyes showing her to be of mixed blood . |
| 6 | Bitter jealousy clawed at her , its sharp , painful talons filling her with an urge to scream with frustration and leaving her unable to think clearly . |
| 7 | Her daughter , Gemma , had been left money for her school dinners and an elderly neighbour took her in for several days before social workers took her into care last week . |
| 8 | Old tombstones provided her with that lit match to the powder trail of her imagination . |
| 9 | She began walking towards the depression , as four suited figures followed her from the ship , still arguing about the paperwork . |
| 10 | Constance did n't bother to reply but sat down beside the cat , which in some ways reminded her of her loved one . |
| 11 | For further details contact her at . |
| 12 | Through the waves of dizziness that made consciousness ebb and flow she was vaguely aware of voices , of being transferred to someone else , then of careful hands lowering her into waiting arms . |
| 13 | When it finished , there was lunch and music : all her favourite foods calling her with their rich odours of spiced meats and pasta . |
| 14 | He would take frustrating and puzzling journeys on the serpentine British railways to see her for a snatched fraction of a weekend in a provincial rep . |
| 15 | On the ferry coming home again a fortnight later , some French boys questioned her about what had happened to her hair . |
| 16 | The other old nomes watched her in horrified silence . |
| 17 | The Factory Whistle had been republished a few days before , and beside her Viola kept the pile of six copies sent her by the publishers , with its Lowry-ish cover of tall chimneys and matchstick men . |
| 18 | The dark eyes fixed her for a moment . |
| 19 | From time to time , too , Jenna caught Alain 's dark eyes watching her through the driving mirror , and she was greatly relieved when they began to skirt Paris . |
| 20 | Even before he got to her she was mesmerised , the dark eyes holding her with complete ease , and she had to bring herself quickly back to the present to do what she had planned and set matters on an even footing straight away . |
| 21 | The dark eyes swept her with a triumphant gleam as the other woman said smugly , ‘ Silas said I was to sit beside him . ’ |
| 22 | His glance had never left her as she 'd tapped towards him across the mirror-like floor , dark eyes sweeping her from head to toe to take in her black high-heeled shoes , black stockings and the stark simplicity of the black wool dress skimming her knees , with a sardonic half-smile . |
| 23 | Furthermore , if one of the females becomes too dominant they can pool their male resources to put her in her place . |
| 24 | Robbie could scarcely believe this was the same man who was at such pains to keep her at a safe distance , until she reflected that in Fen 's eyes Miss Taylor would present no threat to his reserve . |
| 25 | A few hours earlier Mrs Valerie Williams was robbed of her firm 's wages on a quite road in South Wales when masked men overtook her in this stolen car and forced her to stop and then rammed her vehicle from behind with another car . |
| 26 | Her attitude toward individual patrons sets her beyond most of her contemporaries in defending the integrity of her work . |
| 27 | A policewoman with long experience in dealing with sexual abuse did express the opinion that policemen can sometimes be more effective than women in encouraging very young male victims to talk about their experiences : and this policewoman was in favour of male colleagues joining her at the RUC 's specialist sexual abuse unit . |
| 28 | It would take at least another seven or eight years to turn her into a recognizable human being . |
| 29 | Two quick steps took her to the vacated table where she seized the bottle of aquavit , neatly topping up both glasses . |
| 30 | I remember when she took us to the pantomime in town , and we saved up all our sweets for three weeks to give her as a present . |