Example sentences of "in [art] [noun] [noun sg] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | She decided this on Monday afternoon , having seen Anna digging manfully in the vegetable garden she had made behind the Rectory . |
| 2 | In the Mirabeau Precinct she 'd only get pushed around and ignored . |
| 3 | In the make-up room she collapsed into a chair , dropping her head into her hands and groaning heavily . |
| 4 | Tess began to enjoy her new work with the chickens , and the next day in the cottage garden she decided to practise whistling as instructed . |
| 5 | If news wended to Spittals that she had any more interest in the Mills murder she would be suspended immediately . |
| 6 | And in the afternoon warmth she sank and slept . |
| 7 | When she stayed in the Berry chalet she slept on the living-room sofa . |
| 8 | Solicitor Janna Neale sold her partnership in the law firm she had helped establish when she realised that her anxious and perfectionist nature made her unable to leave work any evening before ten , and even then she 'd carry clients ' cases and cash-flow worries home . |
| 9 | And when presently she appeared in the kitchen doorway she said , ‘ I did n't know you were here , Peggy . ’ |
| 10 | Maggie scrounged what food she could , and when Sarah dipped a crust of bread in the cabbage soup she 'd made she could see the cracks in the bottom of the dish through the thin liquid . |
| 11 | Had she insisted on the couple marrying in the village church she would have been obliged to attend the ceremony . |
| 12 | They were lovely clothes , beautifully made from fine materials , and if Ellie took a tuck with her hand at the back of the dresses , and turned the hems up a good six or nine inches , looking in the dressing mirror she could get more than a fair impression of how she might look once she too was a young woman . |
| 13 | She laid the jewels out on the bed in the small atelier she was renting . |
| 14 | ‘ Why do n't you , ’ she said in the ultra-kind voice she reserved for very recalcitrant children , ‘ get out , put some branches or stones or something under the wheels , then start pushing ? |
| 15 | The initmate scenes she interrogates purport to represent the normal and the everyday but in the selection process she has constructed a cogent version of her ‘ family ’ , aimed at a particular art audience . |
| 16 | And they had expressed such interest in the Feargach Grian she was saying ; as people of culture and learning , naturally they would be interested in it , she quite understood this . |
| 17 | As she walked down the tree-lined road in the pitch black she managed to suppress her fear of the dark . |
| 18 | In the attic room she lay on the narrow straw mattress listening to Sally 's snores , watching stars brighten in the charcoal sky and struggling to push away the growing sense of responsibility . |
| 19 | In the upstairs passage she opened the long case clock , knowing very well it was broken , that the weights had not descended for years and the hands remained at twenty to one . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought you 'd never ask , ’ she whispered , and in the gathering darkness she heard a ragged sigh just before his head came down and blocked out the stars . |
| 21 | In the county court she won £4,300 damages , and the Law Lords upheld the decision , despite a clause in the valuation to the effect that it was not a structural survey . |
| 22 | In , in the science museum she saw these really nice lighters and she comes back and my mum 's in the same room and she says , I nearly bought you a lighter . |
| 23 | Before we left , she wrote her phone number on a beer mat and in the car park she slipped it to Werewolf before she put her crash hat on and fired up the engine . |
| 24 | The security guard touched his cap , smiled and waved her on , and when she pulled up in the car park she found that in spite of the earliness of the hour some families had already arrived . |
| 25 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 26 | The truth is that Barbara loves being a grandmother but while she was in the White House she could n't be a proper one . |
| 27 | Well if you 'd have seen that I mean I and she sleeps in the airing cupboard she 's now started to get in there , but she 's half out on the landing . |
| 28 | There was nothing to go back to the flat for ; the building would be empty , and here in the city centre she was , at least , among people . |
| 29 | In the morning room she wound the French clock , the one with love birds entwined on the top of it . |
| 30 | Some , however , refused to be impressed : in 1858 , when his fame was just beginning , a lady known to history only as Miss Marsh , and someone who occupied herself in converting Irish navvies , was told that the man in the railway carriage she was about to enter was Mr Spurgeon . |