Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [noun] she " in BNC.

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1 But in the legal sense she supposed he did nothing worse than truant from school .
2 She admits in the final analysis she finds it difficult to make sense of the ‘ gratuitous savagery ’ .
3 It will have to be made clear that although understanding will be forthcoming as inevitable emergencies arise , in the final analysis she will generally be expected to meet the requirements of the contract of employment .
4 But in the final weeks she began to fall , and I organized a home help and district nurse .
5 The audience was silent , drinking in the obscene spectacle she was making of herself .
6 ‘ Flick 's made a hit , ’ Gay observed that night , strolling into Breeze 's bedroom clad in the patched pyjamas she had worn at school .
7 She picked a mixed posy of flowers and put them in the small basket she was carrying , and then wandered down through the orchard .
8 In the small hours she woke , her heart beating .
9 Her relief was evident in the small cry she made .
10 One night Kit stumbled by , when Ariel was sitting outside the cabin , with the baby sleeping near her in the small hammock she had rigged up for him .
11 her hands are bound up and bloody , but in the foul-smelling prison she heartens her companions with happy visions of the communist future .
12 If she believed in the Prime Mover she would be praying .
13 Enid 's fingers made pleats in the lilac skirt she was wearing .
14 A short distance away were the Santerres : Sir John shouting orders and beside him his wife , riding side-saddle , her desire to leave apparent in the agitated remarks she made to her husband .
15 In the early afternoon she and Florian , with two more of their disc jockeys and a number of other public figures , were variously photographed setting an example , the situation being sufficiently dramatic without being overly traumatic to have induced a general spirit of camaraderie .
16 In the early scenes she sometimes seems less like a human than a terrified wild animal , and she is in extraordinary form in her first public apppearance at Mrs Higgins 's tea party , moving with the stiffness of an automaton and speaking in a voice that sounds like a Martian after a course at the Berlitz .
17 In the early days she had been stung by criticism of the way she dressed .
18 In the early days she had had lots of quiet opinions , he remembered , which she had offered him , shyly slyly , couched as a kind of invitation or bait .
19 If in the early days she was chiefly responsible for shifting a lot of blue eyeliner and baseball caps , she gradually became an inspiration to the frail , the disadvantaged and the miserable .
20 In the early days she would go for an evening ‘ burn up ’ in her car around central London , leaving her armed Scotland Yard bodyguard behind .
21 ‘ To my infinite regret , ’ she wrote , in the flowery style she now affected , ‘ I have been quite unable to visit my childhood home .
22 ‘ Yes , go , you misbegotten hound ! ’ added Lady Merchiston in the caressing tone she reserved only for her pet .
23 The days passed happily enough but at night , in the tiny cabin she shared with Anna , she sometimes lay awake and thought of her cousins , down below in that hell-hole .
24 ‘ I could be looking for something more , ’ she said , and again she wished she had kept her mouth closed , but he seemed to bring out the worse in her , and she could n't resist answering his insults in the only way she knew .
25 But in the Japanese Empire she at last came up against an eastern power developing at a rate comparable to her own , and one capable of offering effective resistance .
26 Suddenly , beyond , in the black solidity she could make out the pattern in the sun-whitened rocks : the lips of craters .
27 She was still an awkward presence because she was never relaxed ; there was an unnatural quality of alertness in her posture , in the intent way she stared at you as you spoke , in her sudden jerky movements .
28 Germany is now the largest exporting nation in the world : in the European context she is totally dominant .
29 ‘ I 'm not qualified to do much else , ’ Anna said , in the gentle voice she had used to Peter .
30 It was just that in the intervening period she had changed her thinking a little .
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