Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Devotedly Meredith , she experienced such a choking sensation of jealousy — she thought it must be like parachuting from an aeroplane , in that she could n't breath and the world dropped away — that she scrumpled up both scraps of paper and flung them into the metal basket beneath the counter . |
| 2 | She flung open the solid pine door , standing aside for Jane and Robert to enter . |
| 3 | She made such a good recovery she was allowed home after just five weeks . |
| 4 | I recall that she made all the other women at the party look drab , washed-out . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ She made this a wonderful day for us and eased the pain tremendously . ’ |
| 6 | It was n't every day she got such a good-looking patient . |
| 7 | When Meg arrived at Uppark as its first chatelaine in many a year she found all the original fabrics in place , but hanging , through neglect , ‘ like grey seaweed ’ . |
| 8 | She supervised all the other vibrancers , both male and female , and choreographed performances . |
| 9 | Sometimes she seemed such a gullible innocent , sometimes she was an infuriating harridan , sometimes a malevolent witch . |
| 10 | She recalled all the other outrageous things she had called him . |
| 11 | She threw open the outer door and looked down the side of the ship . |
| 12 | As such she danced all the great classical roles . |
| 13 | She cut all the brown edges of her slices away and ate those , leaving a growing , mangled heap of red beef on one side of her plate . |
| 14 | She carted all the junior nursing staff off during the afternoon for a training session in one of the treatment-rooms , and by the end of a vigorous drilling they seemed to have it firmly implanted . |
| 15 | Rachel decided she needed all the good luck she could get . |
| 16 | Well I had that with this little locum , but er , a South African , did n't feel a thing , mind you a lot of fillings came out thought just had to go back and have it put in again , but she drilled such a small whole that , that , the dentist I saw , another nice young man , cos my dentist had gone , she 's re-filled it , and going to be alright because her fillings out and it was a bit rough , they did n't sort of goes inwards sort of |
| 17 | The rebuttal had done her no good whatsoever , her face was going blotchy , but she mustered all the sang-froid she could and continued , ‘ Since you refuse to be civil I shall not moderate my criticism . |
| 18 | She took such a keen interest in politics , in literature , and the various lives of her children , grandchildren and great-grandchildren . |
| 19 | She took such an avid interest in all that her daughter was doing that it became stressful . |
| 20 | But looking up at Ilbrec she saw such a heartbroken sorrow that without a word she let him stoop and take Fand from her . |
| 21 | Then she rode home feeling a bit ashamed that she had n't been as brave as she felt sure a proper Brownie ought to have been in face of danger . |
| 22 | And your mother thought to herself , honey , of the short life ahead of her , of all the worth and power within her and the little use it would be , and she felt such a weeping bitterness that she cursed humankind . |
| 23 | When she smiled all the dark comers in the office lit up . |
| 24 | She was the kind of woman who convinced herself that she liked all the rich smells associated with men . |
| 25 | She said really she did all the hard work , and then it became easier . |
| 26 | She gave such an unpleasant laugh with these last words that I did n't know what to say , and as I left the house I felt even more miserable . |
| 27 | She gave Sabine a pleading smile . |
| 28 | She 'd never realised she possessed such a deep core of selfishness . |
| 29 | In fact she had all the wrong ones : flaming red hair , big bits in all the right places and an outrageous idea that life could , indeed should , be fun . |
| 30 | She had such a morbid fear of letting down her husband and the royal family ‘ firm ’ that she performed her official duties when she was quite clearly unwell . |