Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] she [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The longest period for which her mother was left alone was for three hours and Mrs Cahuac worked close by so that should anything happen to her mother during this period she could get home quickly . |
| 2 | During free time she would make sure everyone had sufficient to do . |
| 3 | For public consumption she would allow the marriage to continue but Charles must stay at Highgrove while she lived in Kensington Palace . |
| 4 | The wardrobe had provided her with a vest of padded cotton , but for some reason she would n't wear it . |
| 5 | Moreover , men were selfish , cold-hearted and dull , and yet it seemed that , for some reason she could n't quite fathom , a woman needed to have a man around . |
| 6 | For some reason she could not instantly understand , Beth was riveted with shock . |
| 7 | But most alarming of all was the feel of the hard-muscled thigh pressing against hers , and , for some reason she could n't explain , she found it hard to drag her eyes away from his . |
| 8 | For some reason she could only move with nightmarish sluggishness , while everyone around her tore past with dizzying speed . |
| 9 | Her hands were splayed across his broad shoulders as if she would push him away , and for some reason she could n't seem to relax them . |
| 10 | She had always confided in Tony , but for some reason she could not confide that . |
| 11 | As evidence for this assertion she will point to the fact that the rise of the novel ( the literary genre of ‘ character ’ par excellence ) in the eighteenth century coincided with the rise of capitalism ; that the triumph of the novel over all other literary genres in the nineteenth century coincided with the triumph of capitalism ; and that the modernist and postmodernist deconstruction of the classic novel in the twentieth century has coincided with the terminal crisis of capitalism . |
| 12 | If Thatcher survives through this year she will lead the Conservatives into the next election . |
| 13 | Every stroke was applied with precision by the bitch of an SS officer , and after each stroke she would smile and run the whip lovingly through her fingers . |
| 14 | What happened was that after each death she would go through a process of remembering the scenes of illness and death . |
| 15 | What was happening to her ? she wondered hazily ; after this afternoon she should surely loathe the man more than ever . |
| 16 | In a still moment of total blackness she could feel the sinewed strength , the velvet softness of the dragon 's tripes . |
| 17 | In the closing days of that year she could only hope and pray that whoever was responsible for Liza 's unnatural behaviour would have helped to improve it by the next time she saw her . |
| 18 | By covering her hands and lower arms in the most enormous pair of rubber gloves she could just about force herself to help with the washing up . |
| 19 | ‘ Any questions you like provided that you know only your daughter can answer them ; the nickname of a childhood friend , for example , or the description of some pet she used to have , anything that she will know and her captors ca n't know . |
| 20 | Of this person she could form no idea other than that Hugh believed him to be the owner of whatever was in the sack and that he was in some way connected with the outlaws ' Camp . |
| 21 | Whatever awaited her at the end of this journey she would face . |
| 22 | In some parts of Muslim society she would be in danger of her life . |
| 23 | She told the sort of feeble lie she would have despised in someone else . |
| 24 | She took every bit of sick leave she could . |
| 25 | The content of these remarks she could guess all too easily from the pin-ups that were displayed on walls and pillars everywhere , pages torn from soft-porn magazines depicting glossy-lipped naked women with bulging breasts and buttocks , pouting and posturing indecently . |
| 26 | ’ One of these days she 'll go too far . |
| 27 | It was then we realised that , ironically , of all places she could have chosen to make her home , Poppy had decided to live under my office . |
| 28 | If Britain was to survive in the new world of rival empires she must look to the fitness of her population , both for the military and for the economic struggle . |
| 29 | The class was not giving the kind of demonstration of good behaviour she would have liked . |
| 30 | Through the haze of half-closed eyes she could make out his face hovering darkly over her . |