Example sentences of "she [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , she went just for a lark , y'know , but this Mabel , she 's very serious , never got married , y'know — not surprisin' either when you see 'er in a strong light . |
| 2 | ‘ Is she of a good family , like Mercy ? ’ asked his surprised mother , who had come in during the conversation . |
| 3 | Is n't she like a little sister to him ? " |
| 4 | ‘ Only one old woman killed , and she with a frightful goitre and her husband long ago disappeared in the hills . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a French waltz , and it 's a bit made , ’ says she with a disarming grin , ’ so I decided to do it ! ’ |
| 6 | This would have been a stage towards the best-remembered dance sequence in the film , prominently featured in That 's Entertainment ! ( 1974 ) , when they go ‘ Dancing In The Dark ’ in a fantasy Central Park , she in a pleated white skirt and flat shoes , he in a light sport jacket and slacks , just as they 've come from rehearsal . |
| 7 | In the spring of this year , a pharmacist told her about a new drug called Imigran . |
| 8 | And I griped to her about a certain person at work , I lamented the fact that we were a second-rate company when we could be a first-rate company , the usual junk . |
| 9 | When she is successful , this success is attributed , not to her as a female character , but to the fact that she is a ‘ tomboy ’ ; as the author makes clear . |
| 10 | They threatened that , if he did not co-operate , the Northern Ireland emergency powers of detention would be used to intern her as a dangerous subversive . |
| 11 | Instead of fearing her as a sensual temptation , a bringer of chaos into the monastic order and productivity of his life , he was able to work harder and better . |
| 12 | ‘ I just do n't see her as a full-time mother … ’ |
| 13 | The result is a set of pictures that expose her as a fabulous vamp with more definition than Wolf and more powerful pectorals than Panther . |
| 14 | Her instructor , Sally Sheffield , described her as a competent first-aider who did not panic . |
| 15 | While commentators have dismissed her as a serious contender , those who worked intimately with the Prince and watched Mountbatten 's machinations at first-hand were convinced that marriage between Prince Charles and Amanda Knatchbull was a virtual certainty . |
| 16 | The formalist critic dismisses her as a serious contender for the mantle of ‘ modern artist ’ due to a perceived lack of innovation and refusal of the essentialist mandate of formalism . |
| 17 | Thus , a story which for one reason had been meaningful to her as a young child provided guidance for her at adolescence for quite a different reason . |
| 18 | This was best summed up by Everett , the market gardener : ‘ She were never a gel , but I knew her as a young woman and she were old then . ’ |
| 19 | I could n't remember her ever having been any different , and even Lili could n't have known her as a young woman , for Syl 's mother was old enough to have been his grandmother . |
| 20 | When I bought her as a young heifer , a friend went on and on about how small she was until I wondered if I was going to have a beast left at all by the time she had finished . |
| 21 | Clare thought of telling her what it would have meant to her as a young girl to have a nicely furnished room to herself — what it would mean to her now for that matter — but sensed that such remarks would serve no useful purpose . |
| 22 | Pebbles , whose owner had been required to stump up $240,000 to supplement her as a late entry , started 11–5 favourite , with Greinton ( whose gallant run against Teleprompter in the Arlington Million two months earlier is described on pages 96–7 ) at 135 . |
| 23 | It struck her as a terrible waste , for she felt nothing as Kattina erotically licked her sensitive flesh in dainty , small circles commencing at her throat , and finishing inside her dinky navel . |
| 24 | There is an important point here : ancient accounts of Greek relations with Carthage often treat her as a barbarian power whose dealings with the Greeks were uniformly hostile . |
| 25 | Childhood security , her longing to return to that simpler time when her mother cherished her as a bright-haired toddler . |
| 26 | Now that she was too old to dance regularly she would understudy the Girls and they all recognized her as a marvellous dancer : |
| 27 | They became lovers , but Valerie did n't know that Sanquest regarded her as a mere plaything — someone he could have a little fun with ; someone he could display before his friends as his latest conquest . |
| 28 | Alice Perrers 's intimacy with the king began in the 1360s , and she received lavish gifts of jewellery and clothes , together with enough property to establish her as a substantial landowner in her own right . |
| 29 | As well , Hi 's reflections on Carlotta establish her as a real woman as well as an ideal of love and beauty . |
| 30 | Surrounded by Christmas decorations John said : ‘ She was in an awful state but I will always remember her as a lovable child . ’ |