Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I meant to ask her about it this afternoon , but she 'd lots of other people there . |
| 2 | Never had she met anyone of such mildness , such ease , such openness of heart , such certainty of pleasing . |
| 3 | She had felt quite revolted when Alec Ardis had , without the smallest encouragement , grabbed her ; she had felt nauseated when Fisher had , uninvited , caught hold of her ; so why had she felt none of these things last Tuesday night , when Naylor Massingham had taken her in his arms ? |
| 4 | She informed him of this conclusion , and with his usual calm he accepted it . |
| 5 | At school lunches she showed none of this nonsense , nor was it displayed at home when she ate informally in front of the television in the evening . |
| 6 | When he had gone through to the bedroom , tired , shaking , cold , she stripped herself of all the finery — fighting with clasps , pushing and twisting rings . |
| 7 | She knew nothing of financial matters and had acted quite reasonably in placing her trust and confidence in a motor trader who had a good reputation in the area . |
| 8 | But she knew nothing of these things . |
| 9 | She was happy when she starved herself of new clothes and expensive hairdressers , her bun gone , her blonde hair cut short , strict and styleless , by a merciless local hairdresser . |
| 10 | After I was born she put on a lot of weight , and although eventually she lost most of it , my birth was seen as to blame for her weight problem , and throughout my childhood she reminded me of this . |
| 11 | She reminded us of olden-day ferries best forgotten . |
| 12 | She had plenty of those too . |
| 13 | She had none of that innocence or boundless enthusiasm that the Princesse always saw as the stamp of the American girl . |
| 14 | Tallis was idly aware that she had none of these organs left . |
| 15 | ‘ But what I do n't understand is why she said none of this before . |