Example sentences of "she [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Because of her coalition-building skills , she led successful change projects that in turn brought her recognition and early promotions .
2 This time she made sure Maggie ate the meat and the pie herself , and forced her to drink a cupful of milk .
3 She made strenuous efforts to tame her behaviour when she was indoors , never rattling her earrings during Mass , nor racing along the stone corridors as if they were open fields .
4 Throughout most of her reign , and particularly in its early years , she made strenuous efforts to show herself an adherent of advanced theories of government and of the ideas of the French Enlightenment in general .
5 She made fresh tapes to play in the car , and grinned at the luxury of traffic jams in the company of Louis Prima and Sidney Bechet .
6 Leith could feel her anger straining at the leash at his sarcastic comment , but she made enormous efforts to stay cool .
7 She shuddered inwardly , the same as she did every time she realised nameless fingers had gone through her belongings .
8 In April she visited Northern Uganda to travel round the wilds of Karamoja with her daughter Alison who is working with village women , helping them to take a practical , active part in their community 's well-being .
9 " And she has good reason to say so when she looks at what has happened to all the rest of them . "
10 She has good reason to believe it .
11 ‘ I should think she has good reason to think like that , ’ she told him .
12 She has striking Italian looks , a model height of five feet ten inches and long slim legs — all attributes which she had n't been taking advantage of .
13 That is extremely confusing for her , cause she has on her computer , she has various versions named in two , unless she destroys previous versions of M2 when she does this one Well she should she should overtype the correct one Which is n't what we did with M1
14 In saying that the power exists we were doing no more than to reaffirm the unlimited nature of the court 's inherent jurisdiction over minors , a jurisdiction which empowers and may require the court to override the wishes of a minor , even if he or she has sufficient understanding to make an informed decision .
15 She has human beings pinned down . ’
16 Each day she found new shoots coming out of the ground .
17 Eventually she found other things to do when , in his view , it was time to do that .
18 And three times since breakfast she found unauthorized people prowling around — one of them in the labor room , no less !
19 She used male homosexuality to denigrate conventional ideas of femininity , characterizing both as faggothood .
20 Even when she was a politician she let potential voters fondle her breasts on the hustings ( her politics are a sexually-liberated shade of Green : she is in favour of love hotels and the environment ) .
21 The marine invertebrate keeper will encounter more uninvited guests than other hobbyists if he or she uses living rock to decorate their tanks .
22 Predominantly a figurative painter , she uses ready-made images culled from photography and film as a device for dealing with subjective , personal narratives of a highly problematic nature .
23 She uses reversible metaphor to perform an integrative operation on this material , bringing it together in a mobile yet highly structured whole that turns around a small number of common patterns .
24 On Friday , Paula , whose writing emphasises the sound of language , demonstrated how she uses electronic technology to project and enhance her voice during the performance of her work .
25 And she blasted Tory plans to force more schools to quit town hall control .
26 She says rural areas have been hard hit by the recession .
27 Lever treats ad budgets and strategies as confidential information and she says below-the-line plans have yet to be formulated .
28 She says modern methods do more harm than good , and has written a book designed to teach youngsters the traditional way .
29 Sitting by a potted palm that looked like a fugitive from the desert , she ate flaky rolls spread with black cherry jam , and drank two cups of coffee before setting forth .
30 Erm , good point , she did er , give them letters and she told other people to contribute , she erm , she at one stage ask everybody what they , what the record was .
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