Example sentences of "of [noun pl] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did Wilson have a good ‘ pair of ears ’ , in musicbiz speak , but she was also a formidable negotiator , tenacious in the pursuit of acts she wanted to sign , and in fighting her corner over day-to-day interdepartmental matters . |
| 2 | Asked her what sort of coins she uses do you reckon they go with it , do they say on the front page then about that superstore . |
| 3 | Her latest publication , An Artist 's Journey ( Collins , £20 ) , is in part an autobiographical account of her life as an artist and her memories of artists she has known , from Graham Sutherland and Henry Moore to Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque , and in part a collection of 48 of her own paintings art insight into her unique fantasy world . |
| 4 | After a couple of minutes she tried again . |
| 5 | For a couple of minutes she gave in to another uncharacteristic fit of temper . |
| 6 | Relations between working class husbands and wives never lacked affection and it may well be that the poor , early twentieth century working class wife derived as great a satisfaction from the mix of activities she undertook to sustain her family as her modern counterpart does from , typically , a part-time job and the performance of less arduous domestic tasks ( with varying degrees of help from her husband ) . |
| 7 | In the morning Kāli took the cattle out to graze , but after a couple of hours she came back soaked to the skin . |
| 8 | I must admit , I ca n't claim it was love at first sight , but within a couple of hours she had firmly established herself in my affections , ’ laughed Delia . |
| 9 | After a couple of hours she stopped scowling over his fluid-intake . |
| 10 | ‘ Her life is measured out in easy units ; the number of stairs she sweeps ; the number of shirts she irons ; the number of hours she works to add to the family income . |
| 11 | and she goes I 've had enough questions for one day , I said it plenty of times she said oh shut up you wee wally |
| 12 | She brought her haul of county match appearances up to 99 , while the number of times she played for her club — she was playing for Ganton up until a few months before her death — must have constituted a record . |
| 13 | Jane Pargeter was determined to look relaxed , Dexter thought , even though the number of times she kept bobbing her mouth down to sip her tea showed that she was not . |
| 14 | The first couple of times she 'd arrived at a rendezvous and then lost her nerve , backing out before anyone could approach her ; but then she 'd tried getting herself a little drunk beforehand , and from then on the doors were flung open and she was away . |
| 15 | Indeed , a couple of times she had complained that he was trying to adopt her . |
| 16 | The number of times she had had to go to school with no knickers on was nobody 's business , she often told her husband . |
| 17 | She had lost count of the number of times she had slapped his hands from her body whenever he waylaid her outside . |
| 18 | She was exhausted ; more so because of the alarmed way she had sprung out of reach whenever Guy had become restless , than from the number of times she had sponged him down in an attempt to cool his fever . |
| 19 | Not counting the number of times she put her fat face round the door & said , nodding and smiling as only a Frenchwoman can , with an air of delighted gaiety ( ! ) |
| 20 | A couple of times she 's been standing behind a door , open it , smash her brains in . |
| 21 | And after raising the board and finding six washleather bags of sovereigns she had really believed him , and for only the second time she could remember in her life , she had cried . |
| 22 | Eventually she would train them to produce the kinds of designs she favoured , but for the moment , until she had her first collection down on paper , quite frankly she could n't spare the time . |
| 23 | Dreadful destruction and carnage was everywhere , reminding Maggie of pictures she 'd seen of the Great War . |
| 24 | Pictures were pinned on the walls , copies of pictures she admired , notably Millais and Holman Hunt . |
| 25 | His supporters were also quick to remind others of her opposition to the principle of referenda in 1975 , circulating copies of speeches she had made at that time . |
| 26 | Liz , like a pale convent girl too long mewed up , went wild in her first year , as she discovered the world of parties she had hitherto known only by reading and by hearsay : in those days , such was the imbalance between the sexes , women were much in demand as status symbols , as sleeping partners , as lovers , as party ballast , and Liz went out a great deal , her appearance improving dramatically as she did so . |
| 27 | There was a theory of parties she said she wanted to try out . |
| 28 | When Jessamy reached the house she collected her painting materials , rough sketches and a couple of books she thought she might need , then made her way to the drawing-room where she was going to work . |
| 29 | Penny added to her load a pile of books she had in fact marked yesterday . |
| 30 | Donna remembered with sorrow the number of humiliations she had endured from her in school , and the thought of exposing the contents of the parcel she was carrying to such a merciless judge unnerved her . |