Example sentences of "she of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She of the hole . ’ |
| 2 | But , as if mesmerized , she found herself getting out of her orange caftan and darting almost minnow-like into the navy-blue dress , so ashamed was she of the greyness of her pants , which had practically detached themselves from the elastic . |
| 3 | For Charlotte ( she of the pills and bread knife ) , good friends and blind faith were the main factors which helped to cope . |
| 4 | Rosemary Conley she of the hip and thigh diet now wants you to Shape Up For Summer . |
| 5 | Theresa Berkley ( she of the brothel famous for the variety of its flagellation equipment ) called her ‘ The reviver of erotic literature in the present century ’ . |
| 6 | Such a complete reversal of her usual immunity only served to strip her of every vestige of confidence . |
| 7 | He reminded her of a mathematics mistress who had taught her at school . |
| 8 | Now fighting for breath , Nell anxiously noticed that Piphros had turned an unusual colour , flushing first red then white , rhythmically , reminding her of a pumping heart and vascular system of some small translucent creature . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , miss ? ’ he demanded pugnaciously , reminding her of a sentry at a besieged garrison . |
| 10 | It reminded her of a film she had seen years before in which a cigarette had been stubbed out in a fried egg . |
| 11 | He reminded her of a clothes peg-selling or paper-flower-hawking gipsy , who would raid the henhouse or seduce the maids or steal the washing from the line or all three together . |
| 12 | I mean , there is one when she says that Bertha 's face reminded her of a vampire I suppose that 's probably the most Gothic moment . |
| 13 | ‘ There is nothing I would not do for you , ’ he replied , and all at once frustrated beyond enduring , ‘ For pity 's sake , woman , ’ he implored , and , reminding her of a comment she had made to him that delightful mealtime in Bečov , ‘ give me a straight answer to a straight question — are you going to marry me ? ’ |
| 14 | He was also charged with threatening to kill Miss Lamplugh , 22 , robbing her of a car and possessing two knives and a scalpel . |
| 15 | She was conducted up flights of stone stairs with wrought-iron balustrades to her huge room , whose walls were painted a bright dark blue — a colour which reminded her of a postcard of Van Gogh 's " Starry Night " , and even more of the colour behind the fleurs de lys on the banners in Olivier 's film of Henry V. Its powdery darkness amazed her : no English room was ever dark blue : maybe this was more like Reckitt 's blue ? |
| 16 | It was the mother of one of the leaders who told her of a woman of Madeleine 's description being held by the Gestapo . |
| 17 | Perhaps all those years wasted mooning over Jake had somehow robbed her of the ability to give her love to someone more deserving . |
| 18 | The officers spent two hours telling her of the concern expressed by police and welfare authorities in England about the way Gemma had been left . |
| 19 | She had heard tales of the sunshine , the flowers and bright colours of the upper world , but her father warned her of the perils that haunted the surface , in particular the giants that in those days walked the wilds of Dartmoor . |
| 20 | There is a lovely photo of her of the back of her C D's . |
| 21 | Unless she felt it because her dismissal from that job had deprived her of the sight and sound of Luke Scott ? |
| 22 | Some of the paintings almost reminded her of the Hudson Valley , but she had n't seen the Hudson River in nearly a year . |
| 23 | Pink flowers like willow herb clustered along a dried-up river bank , circling birds reminded her of the vultures in westerns . |
| 24 | Finding a competing behaviour means finding an acceptable activity for the child to engage in which robs him or her of the opportunity to perform the defined problem behaviour . |
| 25 | The father says that the removal by her of the child on 3 July was wrongful and , accordingly , that the Convention applies . |
| 26 | One ideological guru was businessman , Sir Alfred Sherman , founder with her of the Centre for Policy Studies in 1974 . |
| 27 | She did not need Jarvis to tell her of the phenomenon of the shivering platform at West Hampstead as a train approaches , that and the singing of the rails , because she was accustomed to the point of no longer noticing it . |
| 28 | Craig came to her side and relieved her of the bowl . |
| 29 | Although the trial judge in Jones was said to have been wrong in saying that the police need not have informed her of the presence of a solicitor called by another person , the admission of a statement made by Jones in the absence of a solicitor was upheld . |
| 30 | To hurt Thérèse back for robbing her of the lady in the woods . |