Example sentences of "she [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There were moments when Henry thought she would not turn up for the funeral , so magnificent was she about the whole thing , but as the date approached he noticed she was wearing more and more black jewellery , black scarves , capes , cloaks and jerseys , stockings , blouses and hats . |
| 2 | John runs the transport department with the help of his assistant Angela Pelling [ she of the friendly voice who used to answer all calls on the Felcourt switchboard ] . |
| 3 | And she in the blinking car |
| 4 | Christopher Petrie and Jane lived for a year as neighbours : he in the manor and she in the stables-converted cottage , which she made much cosier and more inviting than the manor — one reason perhaps why Christopher spent so much time there . |
| 5 | And as she stirred her cup of tea , and sipped it , she lost track of the conversation entirely , so engrossed was she in the visual aspect of the scene presented to her : she did not know where first to look , so dazzling and amazing were the objects and vistas and arrangements before her . |
| 6 | She on the other hand , thought that a drink , a strong drink , might be exactly what she needed . |
| 7 | She down the other day did n't she ? |
| 8 | There was not a soul in sight as Theda began resolutely to trudge down the street , looking for a lane that might lead her off the main road , which , being only of packed dirt , was already a hasty-pudding of mud which churned under her mercifully booted feet . |
| 9 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 10 | Brownie Owl was very sympathetic when Penny told her about the lost budgie . |
| 11 | Well she she told me that your M E type symptoms had got a lot worse and I said that 's we had at That 's what I chatted with her about the other day but |
| 12 | A NURSE charged with murdering four children had shown no emotion when colleagues spoke to her about the mysterious string of collapses suffered by child patients on the ward where she worked , a court heard yesterday . |
| 13 | So Brenda told her about the adventurous ride by the short cut . |
| 14 | She refused the cold remains of the fish and chips , so he took the whole package out to the dustbin at the front of the house ( no need to worry her about the Sweet murder if she did n't know — and it appeared she did n't ) . |
| 15 | He was very tempted to tell her about The Yellow Chair . |
| 16 | I told her about the Scottish physicist Charles ( C.T.R. ) Wilson 's interest in meteorology and of his accidental discovery of the tracks . |
| 17 | I tried to tell her about the horrible man on the doorstep but she would n't listen . |
| 18 | Let him see her as the successful career-woman she was . |
| 19 | With the Rummidge A to Z open on the passenger seat beside her , she set off to find J. Pringle & Sons , somewhere on the other side of the city : the dark side of Rummidge , as foreign to her as the dark side of the moon . |
| 20 | Gregory sees her as the prime mover in this , while allowing for the importance of divine intervention in Clovis 's victory against the Alamans . |
| 21 | ‘ Matilda is the late King 's daughter , Hugh , and we all took that oath to recognise her as the future queen after her brother went down with the White Ship , ’ protested the Prior . |
| 22 | Those who assumed that the cottage was owned by him , not her , saw her as the unmarried sister , dependent on him for houseroom , companionship , a purpose in life . |
| 23 | Producer Michael White saw her in Monotones at the Royal Opera House and signed her as the haunting governess in the Julian Sands-Patsy Kensit film , Turn Of The Screw . |
| 24 | We have already seen that depressive or manic responses may be shown to be related to the problem of the son 's relation to the mother and his contradictory desire to be devoted to her as the ideal mother of hunter-gatherer prehistory and yet to be free of her as the phallic , dominant mother of primal agriculture . |
| 25 | Giving her reasons for that the mother said that she wished access to be resumed at some point in the future , that D remembered her as the natural mother , and there was a bond between them which would be cut off or damaged by adoption . |
| 26 | A consultant visiting her sick child at home , blamed her for the terrible housing conditions where she lived . |
| 27 | Leonora felt better once she was in the taxi , particularly since Penry not only held her hand , but kept his arm round her for the entire journey , taking her mind very successfully off the evening ahead by the sheer joy of just being with him after a week apart . |
| 28 | And when the bridal party came out into the church porch and stood blinking and smiling in the winter daylight , Sir Felix Lark , his wild eyes excessively unstable , was instantly at Linnet 's elbow , topping the suave invitations of Mr Adolphus Moon to meet his artistic friends with offers to mount her for the Far Flatley hunt . |
| 29 | It was the duty of the medicine man of the line of Armijas to tutor the spirit warrior through the Seven Levels , to prepare her for the final battle , in which she would stand with the other spirit warriors — the Holy Woman From Across the Great Water , the Man With Music in His Heart , the Red-Handed One , the Yellowlegs Who Has Lost Much , the Great Father in White , the Man Who Rides Alone — against the army of the manitous and the story would end . |
| 30 | It had prepared her for the coming meeting when she would be alone at last with the youth who was King of England ; the youth she loved … |