Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [subord] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that energy for comparatively few sales , but she will get them for the paperback as she is very much the rising star of Black American fiction . |
| 2 | Where will Mary look for the coin when she comes back in ? |
| 3 | I drew a pattern in the raindrops on the window for the kid while she thought about it . |
| 4 | Rosa in the chapel with her head bent over her hands , her legs stiff from kneeling , thought , We will go away together , somewhere different from here , to Africa , he said , he wanted to go there , and I will take care of him , we are like each other , we are both … and she hunted for the word because she did not want to use the word ‘ misfit ’ , and found ‘ changeling ’ . |
| 5 | This unpalatable circumstance could result in the very real possibility that Cassie would get a lower price for the cottage than she had paid for it , thus resulting in the disastrous situation of owing the Building Society money which she did not possess . |
| 6 | Her personal milliner John Boyd , who has been making hats for the princess since she was 16 , said : ‘ She already has such a collection of hats that she does n't need anything new for this occasion . ’ |
| 7 | Ms Robinson , of Harmire Road , Barnard Castle , took over the campaign reins more than three years ago and regards her appointment as something of a coup for the north where she also hopes one day to stage a regional conference . |
| 8 | She booked herself in for the works as she put it — a facial and full-body massage . |
| 9 | She continued to work as Reporter for the Islands until she was locked out of her office and suspended by the Chief Executive in March 1990 . |
| 10 | Leonora lay hugging a hot-water bottle in the noisy darkness , grateful for the warmth as she listened to the wind howling in counterpoint to the boom of the sea on the rocks below . |
| 11 | ‘ But the biggest joke is that Pauline actually recommended me for the part because she liked me so much ! |
| 12 | Until then he had thought of her as sulky , even wilful , and had in truth been no more anxious for the match than she . |
| 13 | And Douglas had promised that Shiona 's lifelong ambition — to study fashion design in London — was hers for the taking if she could make the grade . |
| 14 | Mr Frederick Garnet , 81 , said : ‘ The last thing she said to us before she left was that she would have some very good news for the family when she came home . |
| 15 | When you 're fighting and hating each other anyway , it must be nice for the chick when she turns out to have the law batting for her . |
| 16 | I knew a family of five devoted daughters — all married — who took it in turns , when their father died , to stay with their widowed mother night and day , on a rota basis , for the years until she died , because they knew that she would not want to leave her own home . |
| 17 | She came from a large family , and it must be supposed that her mother or one of her sisters helped to care for the children while she was at work . |
| 18 | She did n't go so far as to give me her telephone number , but I prudently copied it from the instrument at a point during the interview when she was distracted : when one of Brenda 's children had somehow slipped into the room to find a drum stacked halfway down a pile of similar toys . |
| 19 | And if you look back at the minutes and then Yona I think she 's great as the secretary because she does n't let anything go but on the other hand she 's pretty informal about and the way th that over the weeks you know somebody er Julie or June or Mervia Ann come up with the suggestion that they maybe feel why do n't we do this and then by the next week it 's turned into a a rally or a big picket or or a record . |
| 20 | The early light was damp and fresh as the clay when she slipped the wedding band from her finger , putting it carefillly on the shelf , where it could not be lost . |
| 21 | and as the trustee so she bloody guaranteeing a hundred and forty seven pound |
| 22 | Stiffly , feeling like an old woman , she got to her feet and trudged between the hummocks till she reached the top of one of the new dunes on the shoreline . |
| 23 | As Ben had pointed out last night , his Annie was scurrying between the looms when she was seven , and barefoot . |
| 24 | When you get home , tell her that I do n't propose to tell the police about the call unless she does first . |
| 25 | The outcome has removed strains between members of the committee which last week resulted in Coun. Mrs Scott expressing ‘ disappointment ’ that some other members had written to local politicians about the unit while she was away on holiday . |
| 26 | There , looking older and puffier about the face than she remembered , was Lorimer De Belving . |
| 27 | Carrie was in two minds about the situation as she discussed it with Fred one evening in the little sitting-room above the shop . |
| 28 | She felt as happy about the news as she would have done if the baby had been a future niece or nephew . |
| 29 | Her Finals were approaching , and she had no idea of what she should do next , and indeed did not dare to think about the future for she knew that it offered her little in the way of readily acceptable projects . |
| 30 | The only legal right she had was to complain about the beatings when she could stand them no more . |