Example sentences of "the [noun pl] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should do something now , because perhaps it was for want of normal company that Eleanor Thorne lay until her mind turned the corner into madness and final decay , I should go out , I should not allow myself to brood , to carry out my sister 's peculiar whims and defer to the judgments she passes upon me . |
| 2 | She was still in love with the man , and the knowledge threatened to crumble the defences she 'd been steadfastly attempting to rebuild all day . |
| 3 | For the last 30 years of her life Lady Onslow lived at Notting Hill Gate , and in the mid-1970s she led her neighbours in a rates protest against the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea . |
| 4 | During the late 1960s to the mid-1970s she says CND was classified as subversive because it was a ‘ Communist dominated organisation ’ . |
| 5 | The ribbons she laid beside her on the bed and she crushed the crown in her hands until the sharp pieces of broken straw pricked her , hurt her . |
| 6 | That evening she still was n't feeling too great , but nevertheless was able to talk about the television she 'd missed , the programmes she 'd missed on telly . |
| 7 | Robbie would have been happy to listen quietly , for the snippets she did overhear told her more about Fenton Marshall . |
| 8 | Positive , forward thinking is behind Wright 's plans for the polytechnic , especially in the light of the transformations she foresees in training and education . |
| 9 | The essences she chose tended to be of the wood or resinous families — sandalwood , cedarwood , frankincense and myrrh , heightened with rose or ylang-ylang , occasionally clary-sage . |
| 10 | The artists she admires are Searle , Scarfe , Steadman and Clive Francis : ‘ I can not work quickly . |
| 11 | She felt she could no longer trust her own ideas , the disagreements she had had with Clare , Bryony and Sue must be due to her own ignorance . |
| 12 | The knickers she had gone to sleep in felt wet . |
| 13 | So she had downgraded herself , attempting by each step to lose herself in the back-streets of the cities she went to . |
| 14 | He gestured to the window and Claudia saw that a display of rings was next to the ornaments she admired . |
| 15 | Mairi was furious when after a while Luch started to take long to return with the bucket , but it did her no good ; the wee lass often vanished for hours at a time , in spite of the scoldings she got when she returned late . |
| 16 | and er I went there and they give me an estimate and erm when it went in the contacts she does was er no , it 's it 's more than we thought because the chassis 's twisted or |
| 17 | ‘ We are not sure if the scripts she 's been sent are suitable for her , but we are going to beat the undergrowth there to see if anything comes flying out . ’ |
| 18 | In a codicil Sir William asked Charles Greville , his heir , from whom he had ‘ bought ’ Emma , to pay the debts she had accumulated since his last settlement . |
| 19 | Underneath the maps she felt the bare concrete of the warehouse , not the thick carpet of the Mayor 's office . |
| 20 | Adam had viewed with near-incredulity his mother 's preparations in the past for going on holiday , the way everything in the house seemed to get washed , the way she and his father wore their worst clothes for days beforehand because the best ones were packed , the phone calls she made , the notes she left for tradesmen . |
| 21 | When the proceedings were adjourned for lunch , Julia collected the notes she had been conscientiously making and pushed them into her briefcase , before looking for David to see whether he wanted to have lunch with her . |
| 22 | She held up the notes she had copied down from the drums in the German docks . |
| 23 | A note had arrived at the surgery from the lady in Chester saying that after careful study of the X-rays she thought that Mr Spottiswoode 's pain might be connected with a chest problem . |
| 24 | A woman who has helped scores of homeless people is having to sell some of the houses she uses , because the payments are coming in so late they are causing HER financial difficulties . |
| 25 | Inevitably , Pauline has been greatly influenced by the houses she has seen on her travels in America and Sweden . |
| 26 | Although she says that it was not necessarily an easy step to take , her community was behind her , and the reactions she has had from friends and teachers have convinced her that the step she took was an important one , challenging stereotypes in the West about what it means to be a Muslim girl , and bringing her a great sense of identity and of no longer being at odds with herself . |
| 27 | One of the prisoners she wrote to has died by the electric chair . |
| 28 | We successfully unhooked her and on the scales she came in at 13lb 4oz , not a monster cat , rather a kitten , but nevertheless a most satisfying experience ; at last a cat on the bank . |
| 29 | The illustrations she produced for the book were based on copies of old master paintings . |
| 30 | The illustrations she produced for the book were based on copies of old master paintings . |