Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean were , were there any sort of political issues she felt very strongly about ? |
| 2 | Set in Alaska , it stars the Canadian folk-singer k. d. lang as Kotz , an orphaned Eskimo of ambiguous sexual identity and brooding potential violence , who latches on to Roswitha ( Rosel Zech ) , a middle-aged German emigree librarian still hanging on to memories of lost happiness like the jars of preserved berries she keeps in her bedroom . |
| 3 | Then he changed into a selection of dry clothes she 'd found in Marlin 's wardrobe , though Gentle was both taller and leaner than the absent lender . |
| 4 | In the antique mirror with its frame of carved shells she saw both their faces distorted by a defect in the glass ; the brown and green of Stella 's huge luminous eyes smeared like wet paint into the deep clefts between nostrils and mouth ; her own wide brow bulging like that of a hydrocephalic child . |
| 5 | Although she was just yards from the safety of nearby houses she was too frightened to call out . |
| 6 | The Princess of Wales has announced that she is to cut dramatically the number of public duties she performs . |
| 7 | By covering her hands and lower arms in the most enormous pair of rubber gloves she could just about force herself to help with the washing up . |
| 8 | Another girl , who looked wretchedly unhappy and as if she might be going to fade away at any moment , practically had a miscarriage on stage one night as a result of some pills she 'd been made to take by her awful lout of a lover . |
| 9 | Despite the resolution of menopausal symptoms she stopped the HRT ( and tamoxifen ) after only 3 months . |
| 10 | Ignoring the existence of six servants she organized this breakfast herself . |
| 11 | Vainly some remaining logical part of her mind sought excuses but was drowned by the sheer surge of basic responses she 'd never known she possessed . |
| 12 | She produced from her shopping bag the box of crystallized fruits she had bought for him , and a mutual exchange took place . |
| 13 | ‘ Can you give us any clue , Miss Winkelmann , as to why this protest came so late , and can you give us some indication of the form of these attempts she mentions to get her daughter back ? |
| 14 | The content of these remarks she could guess all too easily from the pin-ups that were displayed on walls and pillars everywhere , pages torn from soft-porn magazines depicting glossy-lipped naked women with bulging breasts and buttocks , pouting and posturing indecently . |
| 15 | In five other cases a client was at home but admission to an old people 's home was already being organised so the development officer was unable to intervene ( though in three of these cases she said she would have been able to provide home support ) . |
| 16 | Because of these interests she was designated as a dangerous subversive under the terms of the 1927 Public Safety Act . |
| 17 | In both of these jobs she proved to very hard-working and reliable , well able to function on her own but always working as a member of a team . |
| 18 | ’ One of these days she 'll go too far . |
| 19 | To Hazel Willis , manageress of Boy , in the Kings Road , Nicola would be one of the gang of regular shoplifters she refers to as the ’ Chelsea groupies ’ . |
| 20 | Since this is also something of a retrospective exhibition we have the much earlier painting of her Rome Studio in 1976 , where in a sequence of flat planes she explores every facet of light and the spaces between . |
| 21 | Of all things she knew that that was not true . |
| 22 | It was then we realised that , ironically , of all places she could have chosen to make her home , Poppy had decided to live under my office . |
| 23 | If Britain was to survive in the new world of rival empires she must look to the fitness of her population , both for the military and for the economic struggle . |
| 24 | Her visit to the Association 's headquarters in Carlisle in November 1983 was the first of many engagements she has undertaken on behalf of the BDA in later years . |
| 25 | Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear . |
| 26 | Through the haze of half-closed eyes she could make out his face hovering darkly over her . |
| 27 | On one of those weekends she had met Stock , a photographer who did a lot of work for one of the newspaper colour supplements , though always under assumed names , for tax purposes . |
| 28 | It may sound nasty but a man would never look at some of those women she said , a lot of women deserved to be raped . |
| 29 | It may sound nasty but a man would never look at some of those women she said . |
| 30 | The sounds and scents of the morning were keen and exciting yet at the centre of those sensations she was filled with a curious sort of quiet . |