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 | 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 . |