Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun pl] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard of the miracles of Saint Winifred , and the many pilgrims and rich gifts she has brought to Shrewsbury , and I dreamed of finding such a patroness to give new life to Ramsey . |
| 2 | When a local policeman told Sharon Rogers that , ‘ by the time you 're 16 you 're going to be pregnant , homeless and stuffed up with drugs ’ , she believed this summed up the attitudes of many of the police and social workers she encountered during her offending career . |
| 3 | The professional and personal uncertainties she suffers on the way up give heart to this novel , which is at its best exposing the machinations of editorial top brass . |
| 4 | Between her first and second missions she was commissioned an ensign in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry . |
| 5 | when he 's down he ca n't move , I said yes he can , she said he ca n't , and three times she told them and it were n't until the third day , they apologise , they said I 'm awfully sorry we did n't realise just how |
| 6 | Again she prays and for three days and three nights she is swept through cold northern seas until she is cast ashore on the sands of Culleross on the north side of our Solway Firth . |
| 7 | Now and again Dinah would come on a phrase that interested her , but it was not the kind of subject she would have chosen to read , much less write out ; and these evenings she had to write it . |
| 8 | Oh bloody and all sorts she buys . |
| 9 | Because of a succession of injuries and poor results she now stands at 102nd , her lowest-ever position . |
| 10 | Moss Kanter describes the personal and interpersonal skills she found in effective change makers . |
| 11 | Before that , she realised , during the three years she 'd known him , he had never moved her to any great depths of emotion — not the same soaring heights and plummeting depths she 'd known in just a few days with Fen . |
| 12 | Her cheeks were rosy from the exercise ; with her pointed features and sparkling eyes she looked like an amiable , wholesome witch . |
| 13 | They were bare and shabby and if it had not been for the pretty yellow cloths she had made for the tables and the yellow and orange cushions she had covered for the chairs and the blue vase full of roses she had asked Maria to place on the chest of drawers , then they would have been dismal indeed . |
| 14 | The superficiality of these ‘ social contacts ’ acts to remind the housewife how critically important to her are the deep and meaningful relationships she lacks . |
| 15 | In fact now she was away from him she could think of a hundred and one things she should have said — done — and what the hell was the matter with this damned car ? |
| 16 | One of two sisters and five brothers she was always an all-action girl . |
| 17 | Yet while she empathizes with her Haitian contacts and admires the beautiful and mysterious celebrations she sees performed , she never forfeits her sense of humour nor her commitment to the truth . |
| 18 | Many people lived a lifetime and grew old and grey without reaching the emotional and spiritual heights she 'd touched . |
| 19 | It should n't have taken her long to pack and change out of her sundress into a skirt and blouse , but she found she was folding each garment at least twice , and several times she stood looking out of the window at the busy yard below . |
| 20 | But already her mind was full of him , her triumph shrinking , slipping between her fingers like that future of silk and satin and feathered bonnets she had been dreaming about so eagerly an hour ago . |
| 21 | She had surely not learnt them at her boarding-school , whose high-minded staff and prissy pupils she had described to him , and whose old-fashioned upper-classy slang she sometimes employed . |
| 22 | In a dazzling subversion of medical and eugenic theories she insisted that women , as the reproducers of life , were not merely central to perpetuation of the race but were the dominant motivating force behind the human species . |
| 23 | Britain should therefore not hesitate to use whatever powers and diplomatic skills she possesses to ensure that it does not come about . |
| 24 | She always found the supper she cooked for the children irresistible and when she gave them bacon and baked beans she would swoop down on their plates like a vulture on a battlefield . |
| 25 | Her eyes and nose were assaulted every moment , mule dung mingled with fresh baked bread , incense and cumin , and other spices she could n't identify , a curious bitter-sweetness that cloyed her senses . |
| 26 | Unlike many leisured women of the middle and upper classes she combined a " career " with her role of wife and homemaker . |
| 27 | She followed him with her eyes as he walked with Emmie to the gate , very neat and spruce in the white Terylene shirt and blue shorts she had bought for him at Harrods . |
| 28 | She took to drinking more than she should , and most nights she would cry herself to sleep , thinking of what might have been . |
| 29 | She existed with the firelight and the radio , and most nights she went down to ‘ dine ’ with Stephan and Anna , and now and then others appeared . |
| 30 | She was sixteen-years-old but with her slim , petite figure and attractive features she could have passed for twenty . |