Example sentences of "she of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ] . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Everyone likes an occasional splurge , some of us — like Imelda Marcos ( she of the 3,000 pairs of shoes and 500 bras ) — more than others . |
| 4 | It was vaulted and filthy , black with the grime of decades , and its sooty defaced posters spoke to her of the petty romances of others , of Ramsgate and Margate , and she was going to Paris , albeit in a school raincoat , and with a beret on her head . |
| 5 | By now Kelly needed extensive physiotheraphy several times a day to rid her of the excess mucus that clogged her lungs . |
| 6 | He always follows up , if necessary , with a second response to the customer to inform him or her of the corrective action taken . |
| 7 | He felt a sudden desperate need to see Alice — to tell her of the momentous happenings of the day and ask her advice . |
| 8 | Moloch reminded her of the Vartaq Veil . |
| 9 | A picture came to her of the shaggy wanderers huddling together in the bus shelter at the top of the road where she had been born and bred . |
| 10 | If you feel that your child may be mixing with youngsters who sniff glue , you could talk to your child and warn him or her of the possible risks and dangers involved . |
| 11 | They reminded her of the cardboard kaleidoscope she had as a child , packed with coloured fragments , which she looked into for hours , turning and watching , turning and watching . |
| 12 | He reminded her of the ancient tradition of Christianity in that part of Ireland , one that dated back to the first century after the crucifixion , before Rome was supreme . |
| 13 | One thing is certain : if Abraham has not told her of the divine command , then even her worst fears will not allow her to guess what is afoot . |
| 14 | It reminded her of the first time she 'd seen him . |
| 15 | He gave a grin , reminding her of the two short , intensely happy days they 'd spent together . |
| 16 | Yet Charles still has the power to cheat her of the ultimate prize — her throne . |
| 17 | She hopes it 'll rid her of the physical and emotional pain . |
| 18 | She wondered why he did n't step across it ; he reminded her of the white mice they had let out of the cage one day . |
| 19 | An influence strong enough to rob her of the natural exuberant self-confidence that had always been a central , unthinking part of her personality . |
| 20 | The client will usually require the engineer to inform him or her of the likely final cost of construction at regular intervals . |
| 21 | In the second case , that where the wife agrees to become surety at the instance of her husband though she does not understand the effect of the document or the nature of the transaction , her failure to do so may be the result of the husband 's actually misleading her , but in any case it could hardly ever occur without some impropriety on his part even if that impropriety consisted only in his neglect to inform her of the exact nature of that to which she is willing blindly , ignorantly or mistakenly to assent . |
| 22 | In my view that course of conduct by the landlord seriously interfered with the tenant 's proper freedom of action in exercising her right of possession , and tended to deprive her of the full benefit of it , and was an invasion of her rights as tenant to remain in possession undisturbed , and so would in itself constitute a breach of covenant , even if there were no direct physical interference with the tenant 's possession and enjoyment . |
| 23 | He reminded her of the mad professor in her comics . |
| 24 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 25 | I told her of the big green seas , all crinkled and slow , heaving up astern as the icy wind scoured their tops into freezing spume . |
| 26 | It was , as Steve Hammond said , all there , but there was nothing , she realised , in all those pages to tell her of the particular hell this couple must have been through . |
| 27 | In her view the film had been ‘ quite careful ’ to show that it was an allegory and it reminded her of the British classic film Black Narcissus . |
| 28 | I told her of the dead snake that you and she had found once , and which had been your special secret . |
| 29 | He left her and went upstairs to telephone the Queen , who was at Sandringham , and inform her of the happy outcome of his proposal . |
| 30 | She admitted it tempestuously as Luke deprived her of the erotic stimulation of his mouth , opening her eyes just in time to see the blaze of triumph in his as he heard her . |