Example sentences of "she by [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He thought it about the stupidest remark he 'd ever made — and so did she by the look on her face .
2 SONIA SUTCLIFFE , who was awarded £600,000 in libel damages against Private Eye , gave a ‘ misleading ’ answer in court when she was questioned about a £25,000 loan given to her by a friend , it was alleged in the Court of Appeal yesterday .
3 " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday .
4 ( And that was another thing — fancy being told to call her by a name which meant in French not only ‘ stepmother ’ and ‘ mother-in-law ’ , but ‘ beautiful Mama ’ too … .
5 She had changed into some clothes brought for her by a clerk who had been sent out with a handful of roubles to a nearby shop .
6 I wondered if , in view of the physical demands being placed on her by a tour on such a large scale , it was necessary to ‘ work out ’ .
7 The decision to ban Suu Kyi was taken by the Yangon ( Rangoon ) division elections commission after a complaint had been filed against her by a member of the National Unity Party ( NUP ) , the majority of whose members had links with the former ruling Burma Socialist Programme Party .
8 The brevity forced on her by a pay telephone might possibly be quite useful .
9 A Kent social worker wishes to consult solicitors about an assault on her by a client two years ago .
10 Cassie knew that Johnny was now separated from her by a gulf of fifty years .
11 Maybe , if she could squeeze a mink coat out of Maxie , it would help her towards the membership which always seemed to elude her by a vote or two , a vote strongly influenced , she feared , by Olga Stych .
12 Madame Bovary has a dog , given to her by a game-keeper whose chest infection has been cured by her husband .
13 It was snatched from her by a woman without heart or conscience , a woman driven by greed .
14 The celebrations passed off peacefully amid an unprecedented level of security , although the Queen 's speech was disrupted by Maori hecklers , and a wet T-shirt was thrown at her by a woman who was later charged with disorderly conduct .
15 I had one repaired for Susannah , it had been left to her by an aunt and she had managed to smash it against a post or something and broke the shank and knocked out one of the erm , stones , so on and so forth , and eh , together with some repairs on a charm bracelet I had to pay thirty seven pounds for the whole jolly lot .
16 Specifically , the Commissioner has three functions : ( a ) to keep under review the carrying out by the Home Secretary of the functions conferred upon him or her by the Act ; ( b ) to keep under review the adequacy of any arrangements made for the purposes of restricting the use and distribution of the intercepted material ; ( c ) to give the Tribunal all such assistance as the Tribunal may require for the purpose of enabling it to carry out its statutory functions .
17 Now Stacey , I remember , she used to , this is , must be mentioned within the bunk as well , cos I , for some reason I remember sitting her down on the chair to dress her by the bunk
18 JANET Broadbent with the marketing award certificate presented to her by The Catering Guild .
19 With Roy holding her by the arms she walked up his body until , reaching his shoulders , she flipped over and landed on her feet , screeching with laughter .
20 He continued to hold her by the arms for a few seconds longer , studying her face .
21 She tried to embrace him , but he seized her by the arms and shook her till her teeth chattered .
22 As for Jessie herself , she had held her in her arms and reassured her that her Robbie would be all right , even though , from the scanty information given her by the nurse , she could n't know for sure if he would be .
23 Sybil appeared entirely confident in her assessment of Barney 's character and Melissa felt warmer towards her by the minute .
24 But as they seized her by the mantle , she shook it from her shoulders , folded two of her children in her arms and floated away through a window , never more to be seen by her husband and the two children she had left behind .
25 In order to have a claim for payment a creditor must prove the debt owed to him or her by the company .
26 It was through this most improbable passage of Scripture , taken home to her by the Spirit , that she in due course became a Christian .
27 She tells me the ambulance is on its way , then she fetches Ma downstairs and sits her by the Rayburn .
28 A deeper pink suffused his face , colouring the skin between the freckles of pale orange that the tropical sun had cast there , and he took her by the wrists and said , in English , ‘ Maybe , we 'll see , maybe one day . ’
29 They had grasped her by the wrists and feet and dragged her to the neighbouring room .
30 She made to rise , but Harry grabbed her by the wrists and she subsided back onto the bed with a sharp cry of pain .
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