Example sentences of "[art] thing she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jay became slashingly dykey , rolling one cigarette after another , was unashamedly heterosexist , never raised her voice above a steely drawl , though her throat was screaming with all the things she could n't say , her body bruised with the feeling of being trivialised . |
| 2 | She also had a rich enjoyment of the comedy of human character , which was one of the things she shared with Lewis . |
| 3 | Was there no end to the things she had n't heard of ? |
| 4 | Dot remembered one of the things she 'd overheard Mrs Hollidaye telling Gloria just before Loopy Lil crashed the tray . |
| 5 | She was a jolly sort of girl but I do n't think our parents would have kept her if they had known the way she talked to us , and the things she told us . |
| 6 | He must always believe the things she told him about other people , especially those in his father 's family , but Frankie sometimes found her instructions very hard to understand . |
| 7 | One , a punk , talked about the village in Wales where she lives and how difficult it is to be different , so that dyeing her hair blue becomes an extremely powerful statement about herself , saying all the things she wants to about her rejection of the values of the people in her village . |
| 8 | Alison 's story is extreme , but many of the things she says will strike a chord with other girls . |
| 9 | Someone doing all the things she is alleged to have done . |
| 10 | She lifts from the floor a leather Gladstone bag , and begins to load it with the things she will need for the day : well-thumbed , much underlined and annotated copies of Shirley , Mary Barton , North and South , Sybil , Alton Locke , Felix Holt , Hard Times ; her lecture notes — a palimpsest of holograph revisions in different-coloured inks , beneath which the original typescript is scarcely legible ; and a thick sheaf of student essays marked over the Christmas vacation . |
| 11 | Nobody but himself knew what it had cost him to start riding with Nutty as a teacher , and to get to his present standard on the crazy little mare when he had been terrified out of his wits at the things she did . |
| 12 | Her ‘ failure ’ to marry and bear children ( coupled with her insistence on confining her household work to the things she liked best — kneading bread , sewing and gardening ) secured time and energy with which to think and write : there were more than seventeen hundred poems by the time she died in 1886 . |
| 13 | All the things she described can in fact be done by chimpanzees . |
| 14 | Susan broke off and leaned back , looking so tired that Breeze could not ask her any of the things she naturally wanted to know , about their father 's last weeks of life . |
| 15 | She had instructed the maids not to disturb her for she valued her privacy and having staff constantly on hand was one of the things she had found most difficult to become accustomed to . |
| 16 | Then she sent Nara to fetch the things she would need : a piece of rope the length of the space between her hands when she held out her arms ; a supple willow twig , the length of the space between Nara 's hands : a sprig of the dā telo bush in flower : and some wheat flour and tobacco for her own payment . |
| 17 | When she had finished she turned to Nara , who had just come back with the things she needed and was peering round the door , as if he was too scared of her magic to come right in . |
| 18 | The things she had heard Jack say after a favourite that he had carefully arranged to get well stuffed , as he put it , promptly went and won . |
| 19 | The things she was going to need for the baby ! |
| 20 | Piphros ' vocabulary was indeed limited and was unable to cope with the complexity of some of the things she had asked . |
| 21 | I never had any money to buy her the things she wanted . ’ |
| 22 | I hope I have remembered the things she said . |
| 23 | I now quote her too kind words because they show some of the things she valued in writing , even if I imperfectly deserve such praise . |
| 24 | After completing the questionnaires , Susan felt that working in a library would not only fit her answers but was one of the things she 'd always been interested in doing . |
| 25 | She was a willing ally in Miss Hatherby 's ambitious project to educate Constance in the things she felt the girl should know . |
| 26 | Her reminiscences were a delight to Constance and the things she learned from her friend 's rambling monologues stayed with her for life . |
| 27 | The songs came back to her now , and she thought of all the things she had n't had : a junior prom , dates , valentines , flowers . |
| 28 | The pungent AOR rockisms of ‘ Alive And Kicking ’ , the clod-footed thump of ‘ Sanctify Yourself ’ and the messiness of ‘ All The Things She Said ’ , coupled with wilfully obtuse witterings by Jim Kerr , will still wind up anyone who marvelled at the loneliness at the centre of ‘ Someone , Somewhere In Summertime ’ or the wistful catchiness of ‘ Promised You A Miracle ’ , the Euro-disco made flesh on ‘ The American ’ or even the neon womb-glow of the recent ‘ See The Lights ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ This is one of the things she wanted me to do . |
| 30 | These things were symptoms of intimacy , like the way she talked of Julian or the things she said about her father . |