Example sentences of "[adj] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 she left the mission to found the Esperance Working Girls ' Club with Mary Neal , and in 1897 she founded the Maison Esperance , a co-operative dressmaking business . |
| 2 | By the time she herself became headmistress of the North London in 1895 she was well-known in wider circles , as a member of the London county council 's technical education board and of the Bryce commission on secondary education , and as the author of Educational Ends ( 1887 ) and of many articles in journals of education and philosophy . |
| 3 | From 1893 to 1895 she visited the Church of Scotland mission in Blantyre , Nyasaland , to do linguistic work and prepare school textbooks , and Maritzburg , Natal , where she acquired Zulu and Afrikaans . |
| 4 | In 1895 she published a novel , At the Relton Arms , and a short story in the Yellow Book , the staff of which she then joined . |
| 5 | By 1895 she had attained the opening up of Lincoln 's Inn Fields to the poor . |
| 6 | Mind you she 's French she 's taught French |
| 7 | Prior to this she played Ophelia in both Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead for Theatr Clwyd and on tour . |
| 8 | When I told Anne this she said , somewhat tartly , ‘ if I redefined the concept of dirt I could stop hoovering the place . ’ |
| 9 | To do this she unwrapped her legs from each other , bent her right knee briefly and peered into the empty glass . |
| 10 | At this she changed her tone , and asked quickly , ‘ Is he all right ? ’ |
| 11 | At this she rose , washed her mouth ten times to make amends and performed twenty prostrations for her scepticism . |
| 12 | For this she blames the record companies , run by yuppies with no feel for showbiz . |
| 13 | For this she required the £1m which was awarded her . |
| 14 | This she sipped slowly , very conscious of the picture she made in her cream linen dress , her pale hair slightly but attractively disordered , Roman sandal thongs binding her long legs to the knee . |
| 15 | After this she began paying even more attention than usual to her appearance . |
| 16 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |
| 17 | If our dieter had done this she would still have achieved what she set out to achieve within her dieting year . |
| 18 | So , though it is too late to learn the violin or the piano , now we have the very complex musical skills of mixing , using synthesizers ; and this she is learning as part of her musical education in Boston . |
| 19 | And more than this she 's sensible enough to know that her success may not last forever . |
| 20 | All this she heard , even understood , but still she was speechless . |
| 21 | Miss Henrietta 's death had seemed so much more terrible and yet when she ventured to say this she was met with blank looks . |
| 22 | One year prior to this she consulted me because of night sweats and oedema . |
| 23 | Because of this she never had any time for her own parents : my mother could n't think it was right that they 'd parted with two of their children . ’ |
| 24 | This she intends to market and exploit to its fullest . |
| 25 | This she expects and indeed wants . |
| 26 | Her favourite line was Bernhardt 's , and this she copied into the front of each of the eighteen notebooks , at least the five of them that I still have ; Oh well , I 'll just buy the theatre . |
| 27 | Occasionally when she was wearing this she had a trick of lifting it like wings , or ruffling it as if it was her real plumage , and she 'd declare : ‘ My dears , I am preparing for The Flight — into Egypt , to the islands , to the New World — who knows ! ’ |
| 28 | This she did , however , rather rapidly and the next moment I found she had overtaken me and was standing before me , effectively barring my way . |
| 29 | And to this she had answered , ‘ I suppose I can do what I like with my own money . ’ |
| 30 | At this she cut herself a narrow wedge from the pie , and when her mother turned round from the oven and looked at her plate , she remarked , ‘ You wo n't get fat on that . |