Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] she " in BNC.
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1 | Some six months after her First Communion she still felt very holy and full of Grace and ever aware of her Guardian Angel . |
2 | After her recent experience she was taking no chances . |
3 | ‘ After her initial difficulties she has made a very satisfactory recovery . |
4 | After her third attempt she was sacked . |
5 | After her third attempt she felt quite secure and rather smug . |
6 | Shortly after her ninetieth birthday she died at West Cross , Swansea , 13 December 1935 , leaving a personal fortune of £112,000 , almost exactly equalling the debt she had inherited from her father over forty years earlier . |
7 | After her fourteenth birthday she herself began to teach and never afterwards spent her days out of a classroom . |
8 | And with a cool , excluding smile for her former daughter-in-law she accompanied her large son and his slender young companion from the room , leaving Melanie staring after them in umbrage . |
9 | Just for her own satisfaction she pulled the very worst one she could think of — worse than any of Oz 's — with her cheeks blown out , her eyes crossed and the tip of her tongue protruding . |
10 | This was only partly true : but for her pock-marked skin she would have been much sought after : as it was she had been pursued more through calculation than desire . |
11 | Once she had stripped off her top clothes she slapped the monitor pads on and connected up the leads . |
12 | During her late teens she was arrested twice for her part in political demonstrations and was later kicked out of university for neglecting her studies . |
13 | During her first episode she was also suicidal , reporting that ‘ she despaired of her life , weening she might not live ’ and that ‘ she would have destroyed herself many a time at their [ the devils , ] stirrings … ’ . |
14 | During her first weeks she was noisy and disruptive in class . |
15 | During her last year she joined the Voluntary Service Unit and visited an old lady in Sevenoaks once a week . |
16 | During her later years she was never visible till mid-day , by which time she would , in an upstairs drawing-room , be found occupying a cushionless chair at a large central table ; with a glass of port at her right hand and a volume of sermons at her left . |
17 | During her short career she ambitiously taught herself the principal and solo roles as well as the corps de ballet parts of the various ballets by careful attention during rehearsal and performance , and by assiduously watching even the works in which she did not appear ( such as Le Spectre de la Rose ) . |
18 | So when [ named defendant ] , 41 , made sexual overtures for the first time during their five-year friendship she went to a neighbour and cried rape . |
19 | During their bizarre courtship she was his willing puppy who came to heel when he whistled . |
20 | When she placed Morndun across her face and peered through its ghostly eyes she saw the air shimmering with elementals , sharp-faced , wraith-like , coiling and twisting above the river , streaming out of the mouths and eyes of the men by the water and from the piles of skulls by the trees . |
21 | Through her half-closed eyelids she could see the tiny droplets of water glistening on his skin . |
22 | Even through her own embarrassment she was cynically aware with one part of her mind that Bert Harris 's interests would certainly not be served by going against a man as powerful as Luke . |
23 | Through their open doors she caught flashes of patterned lino floor , a corner of tablecloth , a chair leg . |
24 | It would mean returning to Wellington with a broken heart , and despite their short acquaintance she already knew it would be a long time before she would be able to evict him from her thoughts . |
25 | In one way their love had got stronger yet absurdly it was n't quite right and the outcome of their renewed affair she could n't foresee . |
26 | Lady Grange 's husband had been a Jacobite and during one of their marital battles she hinted that she would expose his seditious leanings — for which he could be hanged . |
27 | Even above the sound of their own engine she could hear the drumming beat of Oscar 's souped-up motor . |
28 | Out of her black handbag she brings a packet of Silk Cut cigarettes . |
29 | MY DAUGHTER , who lives at home with my wife and I , is in full employment and because of her low wage she pays a reduced poll tax . |
30 | Well should have been really taking two of her strong tablets she says , you know , and she has . |