Example sentences of "she [vb -s] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michelle is obviously a sunlust person in that respect and depending on whether she goes to a main package resort in Spain or perhaps a beach in India , she can either be a psychocentric sunlust person or an alocentric sunlust person . |
| 2 | This is her second book , slimmer but by no means slighter ; complex computer stuff that she turns into a fun thriller . |
| 3 | She plays as a middle hitter . |
| 4 | When she requires a new cooker , she begs for a small loan from the Department of Social Security . |
| 5 | She sits in a soft curve at her easel , gently swabbing away three centuries from a grumpy London sky . |
| 6 | No one could have been more attentive than Mrs Gaskell to that interior ; one feels that she writes with a precise remembered image in her mind . |
| 7 | Unmarried , she lives in a former doctor 's surgery in Crook which doubles as the constituency office . |
| 8 | Mary Leapor also knows that she lives in a dirty world . |
| 9 | She lives in a new four-storey house on a recently completed private estate , and typifies the perfect housewife of television advertising : her house has fitted carpets throughout , gleaming unmarked white paint , and every modern gadget , and it is impeccably maintained by Elizabeth , who describes herself as a housewife with very high standards . |
| 10 | She felt nothing for me ; she has already forgotten me ; she lives in a drowsy round of smoking , going to the baths , painting her eyelids and drinking coffee . |
| 11 | Now she lives in a small flat in Ladbroke Grove , with a young woman she says is her niece . |
| 12 | ‘ She lives in a small alleyway just past The Magpie and Crown off Watling Street . ’ |
| 13 | She lives in a cosy detached home , with plush wall to wall axminster . |
| 14 | She lives in a Victorian cottage in south London with her husband Roger and their baby daughter Hannah . |
| 15 | She lives in a remote village , ten kilometres from a paved road . |
| 16 | She lives in a terraced house in Lancashire with her mum and dad and her cat , Arthur . |
| 17 | She lives in a large , sunny and specially adapted local authority bungalow in Northampton : the walls of the living room are decorated with her paintings ( done when she still had some use of her right hand ) and her kitchen cupboard is covered with postcards , love letters from old boyfriends and local newspaper articles . |
| 18 | She lives in a mock tudor mansion in Cheadle , Greater Manchester . |
| 19 | She lives in a top floor flat in Oxford and has had several accidents on the stairs leaving her very unsure about going out on her own . |
| 20 | She lives in a comfortable shabby house covered in crumbling stucco , with an overgrown garden full of great elms and sycamores , which fill the house with a soft green light . |
| 21 | She seems to have a moth-like fragility until , spellbound by the weightless command she exercises in a long , intimate soliloquy , you realise that you are the moth and she the candle . |
| 22 | She stands for a long moment . |
| 23 | If you are to be awkward then my mother will not know where she stands for a good deal of time . ’ |
| 24 | The figure is Sien , painfully stripped naked , her bony shanks drawn up as she squats on a sawn-off dead tree stump . |
| 25 | She looks like a stupid bitch too ! |
| 26 | She looks like a bloody dog . |
| 27 | Under the harsh highlights , she looks like a road-crash victim , stretched out on the tarmac , blonde hair fanning around her . |
| 28 | When she looked Masklin up and down he caught her eye and thought : she looks like a little old lady , but she 's in charge . |
| 29 | Look at Annabel she looks like a little snow baby , darling ! |
| 30 | Without benefit of make-up and designer clothes , she looks like a twelve-year-old boy , the way most models do : fresh-faced , scrubbed , clean-limbed . |