Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [noun sg] 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 | The audience was silent , drinking in the obscene spectacle she was making of herself . |
5 | She picked a mixed posy of flowers and put them in the small basket she was carrying , and then wandered down through the orchard . |
6 | Her relief was evident in the small cry she made . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | her hands are bound up and bloody , but in the foul-smelling prison she heartens her companions with happy visions of the communist future . |
9 | If she believed in the Prime Mover she would be praying . |
10 | When taxed about her ‘ bossy ’ or ‘ headmistressy ’ role in the 1983 election she replied : ‘ Yes , I do believe certain things very strongly . |
11 | Before she knew it Daisy was upstairs in the tidiest bedroom she had ever seen . |
12 | Enid 's fingers made pleats in the lilac skirt she was wearing . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | ‘ To my infinite regret , ’ she wrote , in the flowery style she now affected , ‘ I have been quite unable to visit my childhood home . |
15 | She knew herself well enough to know that if he challenged her account in the latter mode she 'd almost certainly lose her temper with him , and then the atmosphere between them , which had been ( with the exception of his overtures ) so easy and undemanding , would be spoiled . |
16 | ‘ Yes , go , you misbegotten hound ! ’ added Lady Merchiston in the caressing tone she reserved only for her pet . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | ‘ 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Suddenly , beyond , in the black solidity she could make out the pattern in the sun-whitened rocks : the lips of craters . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Germany is now the largest exporting nation in the world : in the European context she is totally dominant . |
23 | ‘ I 'm not qualified to do much else , ’ Anna said , in the gentle voice she had used to Peter . |
24 | It was just that in the intervening period she had changed her thinking a little . |
25 | No wonder ; in her entire career in the Civil Service she has never typed out anything remotely like it . |
26 | Framed in the narrow window she saw the landscape , lit and brilliant as the background of a painting . |
27 | In the Far East she had protectorates in Cambodia and Indo-China and ruled Cochin directly ; further south and east were her numerous South Pacific stations . |
28 | In the sporting world she has produced very few truly outstanding champions . |
29 | In the other voice she hears a softness and immediately , softly then , she hears herself answering ‘ I 'll miss you . |
30 | She was holding a net curtain to one side with the gold-ringed fingers of one hand , while in the other hand she held to her mouth a long white ebony cigarette holder on which she drew constantly as she watched the visitor enter her neighbour 's house . |