Example sentences of "in the [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 More than 2,700 children went through the paediatrics department at Middlesbrough General in the five months she was there .
12 She would ‘ have to make a very special effort ’ to build the links with other professionals — GPs , the police , consultants and others on which she had barely had time to start in the five months she was there .
13 Her successes include winning the 1987 Gosforth Junior Open , the 1988 Tyneside G.C. Girls ' title and selection for the Durham County girls ' team for whom she had a 100 per cent record in the four matches she played .
14 her hands are bound up and bloody , but in the foul-smelling prison she heartens her companions with happy visions of the communist future .
15 If she believed in the Prime Mover she would be praying .
16 When taxed about her ‘ bossy ’ or ‘ headmistressy ’ role in the 1983 election she replied : ‘ Yes , I do believe certain things very strongly .
17 Before she knew it Daisy was upstairs in the tidiest bedroom she had ever seen .
18 Enid 's fingers made pleats in the lilac skirt she was wearing .
19 ‘ We are at the bedside of the girl and are now starting to piece together what happened to her in the six hours she was in the hands of this maniac .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 In the early days she had been stung by criticism of the way she dressed .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 ‘ To my infinite regret , ’ she wrote , in the flowery style she now affected , ‘ I have been quite unable to visit my childhood home .
28 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 .
29 ‘ Yes , go , you misbegotten hound ! ’ added Lady Merchiston in the caressing tone she reserved only for her pet .
30 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 .
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