Example sentences of "to [art] [adj] [noun pl] she " in BNC.
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1 | She stood up , and grew herself four waldoes , claw-and-grip-tipped mechanical arms that responded to the living nerves she wormed through the metal . |
2 | ‘ How is this going to reconcile with that ? ’ he asks a 17 year old , pointing to the two figures she is working on . |
3 | She added , referring to the two meetings she held with Mr Lawson on the afternoon before he resigned : ‘ I tried to persuade the Chancellor not to go . |
4 | He sorted through Blanche 's things deliberately , one by one , and only stopped when he came to the building-society books she had purloined and Marek 's exercise book . |
5 | Laura liked the idea , partly because it was a way of avoiding import duty , but also because the eastern Kentucky women who worked at the factory were similar to the Welsh women she had first hired in the Sixties ; rural , with strong ties to family and community and skilful seamstresses by upbringing . |
6 | In later life the daughter may find herself self-condemned as , without adequate inner resources , she fails to live up to the ideal standards she has set for herself . |
7 | Her popularity and success — within the limits of an expanding middle class — was in part due to the numerous engravings she herself made , or that were made after her paintings with their moving subject matter drawn from Roman sources and from the history and literature of medieval and Renaissance Europe . |
8 | So he sat still and let her talk , murmuring answers to the few questions she asked him , trying to memorize details that might be important . |
9 | It was inevitable that when Miss Hatherby introduced Constance to the Romantic poets she should fall heavily under the spell of Shelley and Keats . |
10 | They remained a week in the Ottoman capital , by no means long enough for Miss Logan to become accustomed to the coarse stares she received at the table d'hôte . |
11 | Blindly she moved back to her desk again , to the neat pages she had been stacking when Rob had come into the room . |
12 | We usually only have access to such details from oral testimony and written accounts which is why the apparent disappearance of Edis 's long-preserved diary of the trip is such a loss — though of course as a visitor being escorted round military sites by officials , there might be a limit to the unofficial stories she could have glimpsed . |