Example sentences of "[vb past] she [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The fatal disease was unromantic ( measles ) , but it almost carried off Louis-Napoleon also , and only the courage and devotion of Hortense prevented her losing both sons . |
| 32 | Left to her own devices , Lucy wondered what she should do next , then realised she had little option but to wait until she ran into Silas . |
| 33 | But when the prince reminded her — oh , so gently — of the deception practised upon his royal parents on Twelfth Night , Anne realized she had little choice . |
| 34 | A PATIENT who claimed she suffered severe brain damage from an allergic reaction to anaesthetic drugs was awarded interim damages of £50,000 yesterday . |
| 35 | He claimed she had salted money away in Brazil , where she fled briefly before returning to be arrested , using Liberian companies and bank accounts in Monaco and Luxemburg . |
| 36 | Mr Goldring claimed she gave 15-year-old Jonathan Jobson his diabetic grandmother 's hypoglycaemic tablets . |
| 37 | When this happened she had one option ; there was only one other perch available : my fist . |
| 38 | A post mortem showed she had 55 injuries , including broken ribs and bruises to head , neck and body . |
| 39 | In 1990 , Debbie 's proposal to curate a collection of artwork about childbirth was accepted by A Space , one of Canada 's oldest parallel alternative artist-run centres and arts publications throughout Canada and the U.S.A. A grant from the Canada Council Explorations programme allowed her to choose 40 artists , including some whose work was shipped from the far coasts of Canada Council Explorations programme allowed her to choose 40 artists , including some whose work was shipped from the far coasts of Canada and from scattered points in the U.S.A. Faced with a tremendous volume of committed , powerful work from every discipline , her curatorial decision was to be inclusive rather than exclusive ; to show-case the incredible diversity of personalities , experiences and methods that have been employed to address this long repressed subject matter . |
| 40 | In 1990 , Debbie 's proposal to curate a collection of artwork about childbirth was accepted by A Space , one of Canada 's oldest parallel alternative artist-run centres and arts publications throughout Canada and the U.S.A. A grant from the Canada Council Explorations programme allowed her to choose 40 artists , including some whose work was shipped from the far coasts of Canada Council Explorations programme allowed her to choose 40 artists , including some whose work was shipped from the far coasts of Canada and from scattered points in the U.S.A. Faced with a tremendous volume of committed , powerful work from every discipline , her curatorial decision was to be inclusive rather than exclusive ; to show-case the incredible diversity of personalities , experiences and methods that have been employed to address this long repressed subject matter . |
| 41 | Once she had identified her goals she , together with her BTEC Course Tutor at her College , chose options on the National Diploma which allowed her to pursue these aims . |
| 42 | Clothes were irrelevant … only flesh mattered to her where Damian was concerned , because she did not just want the hard , ambitious chairman of the board , but the man of flesh and blood whom she loved more powerfully than she could put into words , and only the silent communication of their bodies allowed her to express that love … |
| 43 | He encouraged her to take public baths , he saw that she ate properly — though indifferent to food himself — and behaved with her like a caring mother , the kind of affectionate mother who had always inspired him . |
| 44 | He would never ask her why she was pulling faces , in case it encouraged her to pull worse ones . |
| 45 | When she walked she moved each hip separately , like a gunslinger moving towards an opponent down Main Street . |
| 46 | Where their flesh touched she became one thing with him . |
| 47 | The inquest into her death today heard she suffered acute brain damage and a fractured skull . |
| 48 | He taught her to make easy corn dollies . |
| 49 | Angela Cartwright jammed her befeathered tweedy hat on her head . |
| 50 | Though it was when I heard her using bad language to my housekeeper and being unwarrantedly rude to Ivo that I decided I 'd had enough of the woman . ’ |
| 51 | But now she decided she detested this man . |
| 52 | Mary decided she liked old Ben , although he was sometimes bad-tempered . |
| 53 | It began when she decided she needed new curtains for her front room . |
| 54 | Rachel was in trouble deeper than her own ; Rachel needed her help this time . |
| 55 | Frank Grimwood sat down , watched her making big business of cleaning her spectacles . |
| 56 | Duke Michael made her write this letter ! ’ |
| 57 | The man 's trembling want of her made her feel that speck grow into a force ; she began to enjoy denying him , then permitting him again , she used her strength to grip and pin him and squeeze him in parts that made him cry out , to gouge and scratch his pale , thin flesh , she fortified him with tisanes that make men what was called in her language ‘ cross ’ , and gave him leaves to chew to stay his excitement so she could explore the crustacean pinkness of his flesh and turn her curiosity and its tinge of disgust to a form of power over him which gave her pleasure . |
| 58 | They gave her some astonishing Ophir crystal that made her feel three metres tall and very sharp . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | Once I met her carrying several parcels and she called to me . |