Example sentences of "she in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she in the blinking car |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She let him drown her in the deep water , too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him . |
| 5 | There , spread out below her in the late afternoon sun , was Florence . |
| 6 | She pestered her mother to enter her in the Imperial Ballet school , but two impatient years passed before she was old enough to audition , in 1891 . |
| 7 | He had waited with her in the elegant departure lounge with its striking shopping centre and attractive bars and cafés , until her flight was called . |
| 8 | For a long while , I could see her in the rear-view mirror , standing in the dusty road in her long white dress , holding her child and looking after the Felder . |
| 9 | She solicitously asked if all was well , sending constant messages to enquire if there was anything lacking , or inviting him to walk with her in the sweet-smelling orchard outside the convent church . |
| 10 | He stared at her in the poor light that filtered through a tiny window above the door . |
| 11 | On the premise that ‘ too many cooks spoil the broth ’ , he asks us to reiterate that day to day management of the Village is in the hands of the Warden , Mrs. Pat Holmes , and any guidance , questions or advice on such matters should be addressed to her in the first instance . |
| 12 | Sitting beside her in the first half were the managing director of Digital Equipment Mr Geoffrey Shingles , and the Chairman of the Sadler 's Wells Trust Professor Gerald Manners ; and in the second Mr Richard Martin director of Corporate Affairs at Digital , and Mr Jeremy Isaacs the Director of the Royal Opera House . |
| 13 | Sir Anthony said on the BBC 's World at One : ‘ I almost certainly will challenge her in the first round if no one else comes forward . |
| 14 | Likewise , Mr Clark has had to explain that his remark to Mr Lamont ( ‘ I can see you were n't at Eton ’ ) is derogatory not of the chancellor but of Mr Clark 's alma mater , where ‘ you were surrounded by shits and knew what shits were , the sort of people who could vote against Her in the first round . |
| 15 | Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place . |
| 16 | It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place . |
| 17 | There is no tort or crime , as there would be if the police were to beat up the suspect or wrongly apprehend him or her in the first place . |
| 18 | The most glaring sin is the failure of husbands adequately to interact with their wives ' ideas , and the ultimate wrong-headedness of not consulting her in the first place . |
| 19 | Listen , if you go off and become a goatherd you never loved her in the first place . |
| 20 | As the shop manager pointed out , it was the third time that month she 'd been late for work , and if they had n't needed her to turn up on time , they would n't have hired her in the first place . |
| 21 | It was this strange subterranean thumping that had wakened and drawn her in the first place . |
| 22 | The lines of experience were marked on her face and although she still had all the exuberant charm which had drawn him to her in the first place , he thought she looked older than he knew her to be . |
| 23 | He kept asking her to get to the point as he was in a meeting , while she was waiting for him to get to the point , since , as far as she was aware , he 'd made the call to her in the first place . |
| 24 | ‘ Why did you agree to meet her in the first place ? ’ |
| 25 | Had he done wrong in inviting her in the first place ? |
| 26 | How did you come across her in the first place ? ’ |
| 27 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 28 | In the spring , almost without knowing how it happened , she accepted Rachel 's invitation to go and live with her in the new house she was buying in London . |
| 29 | Visit her in the new showroom one minute from Harrods . |
| 30 | Suddenly she was deeply afraid of what awaited her in the other world beyond it . |