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

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1 She insists the gruelling teaching process is fun but warns : ‘ Patience is most important for the training . ’
2 This measures the average number of children a woman would have if she experienced the prevailing age pattern of childbearing throughout her reproductive lifetime .
3 After protesting that she simply could n't share her bed with anyone else , she admitted the real reason : she was ashamed to let him see that she had to get up to pee once or twice a night .
4 Some weeks later , discussing the arts , she admitted the English sense of humour was difficult to understand initially , and only now could she laugh at my greeting of , ‘ Help , I am being bitten by a sanitary towel ! ’
5 She flung the inside door to one side , was about to slam it but changed her mind and closed it behind her in a quiet and controlled manner .
6 She flung the whole tangle of thought away from her and ran fast up the stairs as though in the room some delight or pleasure awaited her , not the hard task of painting .
7 When she was just about within striking distance , she flung the soaking bundle with all her might in his direction , shouted , ‘ Take that ! ’ and then ran , not waiting to see if she had hit the target or not .
8 She never met any men until she met the young man whom I can not think of as my father .
9 She flushed as she met the quizzical expression in Helen 's eyes .
10 WHAT a moving picture ( right ) of Kerry Needham when she met the blond boy who was not her son .
11 There it was again : that feeling of being mesmerised as obediently she met the ice-blue gaze which devoured her .
12 Drawn to socialism by her sister , Eva , she met the Irish labour leaders , James Connolly and James Larkin [ qq.v. ] , and helped the 1913 lockout strike of Dublin workers by running a soup kitchen in Liberty Hall .
13 On Sunday she heard Nahum preach for the first time , and she met the assistant curate , a young , delicate-looking man by the name of Daniel Marsh .
14 She paused , feeling a shiver work its way down her spine as she met the black eyes that were regarding her so closely now .
15 And as she met the dark gaze of Guido Falcone , her breath caught as though a fist had connected with her solar plexus .
16 She met the burning passion of his eyes , and time ceased .
17 She met the searching gaze , as she swallowed two headache tablets .
18 Her eyes narrowed into hostile slits as she met the cold gaze of her mother-in-law .
19 As she met the clinical look in Penry Vaughan 's eyes she stiffened , the reason for his change of mood suddenly , mortifyingly , obvious .
20 The deep voice behind her made her jump and , turning quickly , she met the smiling face of the man who had attracted her attention a short while back .
21 As Lucy moved back out into the passageway , she met the returning tide from the last ensemble number onstage ; they arrived in a rush , panting like horses and shedding their quasi-military costumes as they moved .
22 In 1892 she went with her mother on a visit to South Africa , where she met the feminist Olive Schreiner [ q.v. ] and fell traumatically in love with an unmarriageable man .
23 In 1900 she met the American collector Samuel Bancroft , who became her foremost patron .
24 ‘ Because when Mamma was in Venice last year I think she met the same man .
25 Fran stared at him in confusion , feeling a pulse starting to beat high in her throat as she met the mesmerising stare .
26 Frogmarched to the open rear doors , she met the fourth man coming the other way , his arms struggling to restrain the squirming , yelling child .
27 Gingerly she lowered the sweet-tempered child into the cot , not taking her eyes from her exquisite face , Ruth stood gripping the sides of the cot with fingers whitened in an attempt at stopping them shaking .
28 She read the classic children 's novels wonderfully well , so well indeed that books like The Scarlet Pimpernel were often a disappointment when re-read by us in private afterwards .
29 On the sheet of paper inside she read the baldest message .
30 When she read the first word , J O E , her heart gave a great leap .
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