Example sentences of "she [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Gwendolen , thoroughly upset by the morning 's events but mindful of her appointment for dinner that evening , decided to slip into Mr Horrell 's , in order to purchase some of his advertised Special Skin Soap , In the doorway she met the subject of her dinner appointment himself . |
| 32 | Until she met the Crowley family she was a lost , lonely and abused teenager who was doing so much damage to herself that social workers said she 'd never see her eighteenth birthday . |
| 33 | At the private view of that year 's Royal Academy Summer Exhibition she met the architect and put the proposition to him . |
| 34 | She comfortably made her semi-final , where she met the Canadian , Nathalie Gosselin . |
| 35 | And it was at the office … that she met the man who said … |
| 36 | Her next job was at Grampian Television in Aberdeen where she met the man who shaped her TV career . |
| 37 | But I honestly do n't think she would unless she met the man of her dreams . |
| 38 | Before she met the Minister at a party , through her Private Eye journalist friend Paul Halloran , the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art graduate was leading an uncertain lifestyle bouncing from one boyfriend to the next and one downmarket job to another . |
| 39 | A storm forced her boat into Dublin , where she met the deputy , Henry Cromwell [ q.v. ] , and cautioned him about his treatment of Quakers . |
| 40 | She met the baritone Norman Bailey in the course of a Cincinnati production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , married him , and settled in England late in 1988 . |
| 41 | Bernice had never been down so many corridors before she met the Doctor . |
| 42 | Araminta swung round on him , and Theda looked past her , distress and reproach in her face as she met the lawyer 's eyes . |
| 43 | During World War I she met the novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett [ q.v . ] . |
| 44 | She spent much of her time in Swahili-land , where she met the poet and scholar Muhammad Kijumwa al-Bakry , who provided her with manuscripts and information about the language and literature of the Swahili-speaking people . |
| 45 | In 1920 she met the poet Arthur Symons [ q.v. ] , |
| 46 | Jeanne Hébuterne studied art at the Academi Colarossi and the École des Arts Décoratifs where she met the sculptor , Chana Orloff , who claimed to have introduced Modigliani to Jeanne . |
| 47 | She was also active in the London Ethical Society , where she met the philosopher Bernard Bosanquet [ q.v. ] ( died 1923 ) , whom she married in 1895 . |
| 48 | She met the youth 's eyes . |
| 49 | She tipped back her head , exulting as she met the blaze in his eyes . |
| 50 | This might seem more than enough for one life , but in the Ravensbruck concentration camp to which she was now sent she met the woman with whom she formed the other crucial relationship of her life , with Milena Jesenska , whose own life experience drew Margarete intensely , if vicariously , into another of the crucial Central European milieux of that period — the Prager Kreis of Willy Haas , Max Brod and Kafka , whose lover , and early translator , Milena was . |
| 51 | The days she met the wind full on , something awful happened as soon as she got home . |
| 52 | The poem was not published until 1739 , when she met the expense herself . |
| 53 | Having never seen brown coal before , she presumed the house owner would shovel the load down to his cellar when convenient . |
| 54 | In satirical sketches of the Scholar , the Country Squire , the Beau , the Virtuoso , the Poet , and the Coffee-house Politicians she revealed the weaknesses of men . |
| 55 | But if she revealed the truth , what then ? |
| 56 | She lowered the window by the leather tab and clicked the lip into the groove of the embrasure to hold it down so she could take some photographs ; several boys climbing over the fence on the railway banks hooted at the sight of her camera and posed , arms akimbo , pretence starlets . |
| 57 | She lowered the glasses and glanced at her wrist . |
| 58 | She lowered the glasses for an instant so that he could see her eyes , then raised them again . |
| 59 | She lowered the mask . |
| 60 | She said carrying the water up from the well had taken a great deal of time which , when I saw her filling the bucket , I was not surprised since she lowered the rope slow enough to make me fall asleep watching . |