Example sentences of "[adj] she [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Underneath this she wore black cotton trousers — ideally these should have been made of silk , but she felt sure no one would notice . |
| 2 | AFTER THIS SHE HAD ODD FLASHES OF ‘ CLAIRVOYANCE ’ . |
| 3 | Between 1616 and 1629 she bore eight children , and with her husband was active in a Shrewsbury conventicle . |
| 4 | Her eyes appraised him and her thin fingers were spread towards him fan-wise , it was clear she expected some money . |
| 5 | She was able to chat to Ana for most of the meal and what with one thing and another she felt some progress had been made , though what she was doing in this situation she did not know . |
| 6 | After Thebes swallowed up Plataia in 427 she controlled four Boiotarchs and 240 councillors . |
| 7 | It was doubtful she carried much money , but even so , could he possibly ignore a lady needing assistance ? |
| 8 | Indeed not ten years old she knew such words ( and the meaning ) as larynx and spleen and rigor mortis . |
| 9 | During the nineteen-twenties she spent some time in London , and after her second husband , Maurice Platner , died in 1929 she moved to Johannesburg , where she died in 1932 . |
| 10 | In 1892 she became senior lady assistant commissioner to the royal commission on labour , investigating women 's work in Ireland , in the Black Country iron industry , and in London public houses . |
| 11 | In her room Sally eventually managed to get out of her dress though her hands were trembling so much she had great difficulty with the zipper . |
| 12 | do you know how much she had personal money ? |
| 13 | All her energies were too busy focusing on how much she disliked this man , who had not even deigned to tell her his name as yet , even though he knew hers . |
| 14 | D' you know how much she earned last year ? ’ |
| 15 | Though it was only over dinner that Lisa had begun to realise just how much she needed this rest . |
| 16 | After a brief engagement to a man later convicted for bigamy and fraud , in 1929 she married American-born Robert Woodward Hathaway ( second of three sons of Charles Hathaway , a Wall Street banker ) . |
| 17 | But when she was very sad she understood that sorrow casts out fear , and then the murderer could call with a few of his friends and she would tell them wearily to bugger off and they would go , since , after all , there can be no satisfaction in murdering the dead . |
| 18 | At the end of the " thirties she had other things on her mind besides horses and cooking , dogs , bantams , geese and Love Eternal . |
| 19 | A local craft shop took them and after that she had regular orders for them from outlets further afield . |
| 20 | She got this pink wool like angora twenty five pence a ball , so she started that , then she come on er , no Tuesday , with that she bought some needles cos if she 'd of had some more needles I could of done this one for er , now she 's got the back and er sleeve done I think , half a sleeve done I think |
| 21 | There was there was a case of one girl who back in nineteen sixty eight she killed two boys when she was eleven . |
| 22 | After she retired from the headship of her department in 1920 she gave much time to various women 's groups and to societies for the promotion of women 's interests . |
| 23 | During the 1930s and 1940s she helped German refugees from Nazism . |
| 24 | In 1921 she investigated differential operators in quantum mechanics by abstracting their essential properties , taking these properties as axioms and building all consequences thereupon . |
| 25 | Betsy was lucky she had many friends who relished her company by Old Father Thames , where they all congregated when evening came round , cuddling in clusters all over the ground . |
| 26 | At Chester in England in October 1807 she spent two days editing a slim volume of letters addressed to her by ‘ Several Africans and Indians ’ , including a black bishop , proto-feminist Indian women , and a convicted felon . |
| 27 | In 1960 she won golden opinions in Britain in Leonid Spigelgass 's study of autumnal courtship , A Majority of One ( Phoenix ) , in which she starred opposite Robert Morley . |
| 28 | She explained that she had been eating mote cheese and drinking an extra pint of milk a day to make sure she got enough protein during pregnancy and breast-feeding . |
| 29 | I was sure she meant another Famlio ship . |
| 30 | In the latter she wasted little space on such theoretical concerns as the position of monarchy in modern society , concentrating instead on the more trivial aspects of palace life . |