Example sentences of "[adj] she [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this she burst into loud laughter that sounded rather like the hooting of a siamang and slapped her thighs with her hands . |
| 2 | This she did to good effect because she came to know French , German , Italian , and Latin well and to read Spanish , Norwegian , Danish , Welsh , and Early English . |
| 3 | These radios and other stores were brought in by the small steamer Kuru , which was fitted with a device in her stack to prevent the tell-tale streamer of fumes ; these she released in occasional puffs . |
| 4 | I was very proud of those she made for outdoor wear , perhaps because they were different ; they were generally made from offcuts of the various dress lengths being made up into ladies ' costumes . |
| 5 | Though she was dry-eyed she looked in great pain . |
| 6 | Between 1940 and 1945 she worked as honorary secretary to the famine relief committee ( chaired by G. K. A. Bell , bishop of Chichester , q.v. ) which tried , via the Red Cross , to send food , vitamins , and medical aid to children in German-occupied Europe , against the wishes of the British Ministry of Economic Warfare . |
| 7 | It told Lucy she was depressed , causing her to feel a strange sympathy for the other woman , and at last she spoke with gentle understanding . |
| 8 | For a period in the 1950s she flirted with Roman Catholicism , and whether her Catholic point of view made her see moral issues exclusively within a religious framework , or whether she simply did not share the same experience as English-born-and-raised writers who faced the dissolution of their class system is difficult to judge . |
| 9 | Between 1986–88 she worked as senior research officer at the UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development while , immediately before joining the TEC , she was the Design Council 's economic and business research manager . |