Example sentences of "she [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were moments when Henry thought she would not turn up for the funeral , so magnificent was she about the whole thing , but as the date approached he noticed she was wearing more and more black jewellery , black scarves , capes , cloaks and jerseys , stockings , blouses and hats . |
| 2 | John runs the transport department with the help of his assistant Angela Pelling [ she of the friendly voice who used to answer all calls on the Felcourt switchboard ] . |
| 3 | But the path of true love never did run smooth and who could blame Orsino for overlooking this waif-life creature with the short , dark , cropped hair for the Countess Olivia , she of the long flowing hair and dresses . |
| 4 | And she in the blinking car |
| 5 | Christopher Petrie and Jane lived for a year as neighbours : he in the manor and she in the stables-converted cottage , which she made much cosier and more inviting than the manor — one reason perhaps why Christopher spent so much time there . |
| 6 | And as she stirred her cup of tea , and sipped it , she lost track of the conversation entirely , so engrossed was she in the visual aspect of the scene presented to her : she did not know where first to look , so dazzling and amazing were the objects and vistas and arrangements before her . |
| 7 | She on the other hand , thought that a drink , a strong drink , might be exactly what she needed . |
| 8 | They cry themselves to sleep , he behind his wooden bars and she on the big sagging bed . |
| 9 | She down the other day did n't she ? |
| 10 | Dr Rossdale said he tried to wean her off the sleeping tablets . |
| 11 | She felt as though someone had pushed her off the pleasant , grassy path on which she had been walking , and down a vast , black cliff-face . |
| 12 | There was not a soul in sight as Theda began resolutely to trudge down the street , looking for a lane that might lead her off the main road , which , being only of packed dirt , was already a hasty-pudding of mud which churned under her mercifully booted feet . |
| 13 | Then , after a whispered word with one of the cousins , Angel and he galloped up on either side of her and neatly lifted her off the little black mare . |
| 14 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 15 | Brownie Owl was very sympathetic when Penny told her about the lost budgie . |
| 16 | While they ate their first course , a delicately flavoured clear soup , Nathan told her about the winemaking establishments which lay along the shore to the south of the town . |
| 17 | Well she she told me that your M E type symptoms had got a lot worse and I said that 's we had at That 's what I chatted with her about the other day but |
| 18 | A NURSE charged with murdering four children had shown no emotion when colleagues spoke to her about the mysterious string of collapses suffered by child patients on the ward where she worked , a court heard yesterday . |
| 19 | Anna never said , Not before you are twenty-one ; she did n't tell her about the legal arrangements she had made . |
| 20 | So Brenda told her about the adventurous ride by the short cut . |
| 21 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
| 22 | He was clever at finding bargains , reporting back to her about the special offers , the cheaper lines . |
| 23 | Earlier she admitted : ‘ It was a shame it had to go ’ , when a fund-raiser at the town 's South Cleveland Hospital asked her about the returned Mercedes . |
| 24 | She refused the cold remains of the fish and chips , so he took the whole package out to the dustbin at the front of the house ( no need to worry her about the Sweet murder if she did n't know — and it appeared she did n't ) . |
| 25 | I told her about the tragic young man . |
| 26 | He was very tempted to tell her about The Yellow Chair . |
| 27 | I told her about the Scottish physicist Charles ( C.T.R. ) Wilson 's interest in meteorology and of his accidental discovery of the tracks . |
| 28 | I tried to tell her about the horrible man on the doorstep but she would n't listen . |
| 29 | Better have a word with her about the domestic arrangements . |
| 30 | A wild , violent delight that had intolerable hunger as its other side spasmed through her as the deep , slow throb low down in her slender body became a pounding , yearning ache that must be soothed , or she thought she would die . |