Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] [subord] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | She still dealt in stolen goods when she got the chance , but the police were less interested in stolen goods than they had been in the more law-abiding times of some years before . |
| 2 | She first appeared as a strange red light , as of a ship all a-glow , in the midst of which light her masts , spars and sails , seemingly those of a normal brig. , some 200 yards distant from us , stood out in strong relief as she came up . |
| 3 | She was holding a suspender in each hand like she had a skipping rope . |
| 4 | Under her various names of Diana , Artemis , Selene , Cynthia , Luna , she is the goddess with the silver crescent on her brow who keeps the shepherd boy Endymion in eternal slumber so she may gaze forever on his lovely face . |
| 5 | Judge Richard May told Mills ’ to drive in that way when she tried to stop you and knock her down and run her over was callous behaviour beyong belief . ’ |
| 6 | Angela Serota , chairman of Rambert Dance Company , brought news of exciting developments in that company when she called this week on the new theatre 's general manager , Paul Iles . |
| 7 | Cos she was put in that job when she was only a young girl and she 's never brought any shame or anything , not like the young ones are doing now ! |
| 8 | She is very frightened of falling ill in that flat as she has no one to look after her ’ . |
| 9 | His grasp of foreign languages was causing Paul to consider asking him to translate some of his work , and knowing Nathan to be more help in that matter than she , Dinah , would ever be , she left the pair of them to their task , and herself enjoyed the jaunts in the carriage sent by the devoted amateurs of the locality . |
| 10 | Standing awkwardly on one leg , she looked round for her other shoe and could only watch in helpless despair as she saw it slowly sink . |
| 11 | This request opened out a new field of activities for Factota Limited , and the amateur gardener was in high fettle as she marched down Catkin Lane , with a large fork over her shoulder and Sausage prancing at her side . |
| 12 | Indeed , surprisingly enough , Mrs Thatcher 's reputation , in the doldrums at home at least to the end of 1981 , began to grow in foreign affairs as she became more self-assured . |
| 13 | She grumbled on in this vein as she prepared the food and I ran about as the scullion . |
| 14 | Most of the other characters in the film were upright to their now expected formulae ; Joan Sims , Charles Hawtrey and Kenneth Connor were members of the staff room — led by the formidable-as-ever Hattie Jacques , as the maths mistress who wore her gown and mortar board as much in this film as she had worn her matron 's uniform in the previous one . |
| 15 | She was teaching in a private school in this country before she came to us . |
| 16 | But to allow herself to be dictated to in this way when she knew she had done nothing wrong was tantamount to admitting guilt . |
| 17 | She continued in this job until she was seventy and infirm . |
| 18 | But unless we have another child we have been told that we will be in this place until she is 13 . |
| 19 | Questions for feminists Hook 's voice is truly liberated in this volume as she posts problems for the feminist community , both Black and white . |
| 20 | Katherine Lundy operated in a world where deceit was accepted — indeed , expected , and she survived in this world because she herself had learned her lessons in one of the toughest schools of all — in the fire and revolution of Dublin before the " 16 Rising . |
| 21 | ‘ Robert told me in quiet tones and averted eyes how he climbed the stairs behind the prostitute in this house where she conducted her trade . |
| 22 | Britain is particularly vulnerable in this matter because she does not have a written constitution . |
| 23 | Then she could dress herself — though Ember was right : the others laughed at her for wearing clothes in the burrow , even the other two or three towers , and their mockery made her retreat in teenage confusion when she walked shyly into the crowded common-room . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh ! ’ she said in some confusion as she fell off the tree and crashed into a garden bed . |
| 25 | He was almost sure that it was all a revelation to her and he watched her in sad silence as she covered her face and shook with sobs . |
| 26 | Her finely shaped brows met in dark disapproval as she watched him pick at the lock with a thin piece of wire that he had produced from somewhere in the depths of his pocket . |
| 27 | As a result of the Government 's policy , the pensioner 's widow is more than £17 per week less well off in real terms than she was when the Government came to power . |
| 28 | Brother Louis should follow sister Ethel , in these pages for she is older than he . |
| 29 | ‘ There is an exotic dancer who you could say , in modern terms , is a strippogram but it is actually set in 1870s Russia so she is an exotic dancer . |
| 30 | She cut out things like cakes and biscuits ( well , no one says dieting is easy ) and used sugar-free jellies and tinned fruit in natural juice when she wanted something sweet . |