Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Claire took part in the European Junior Masters in Brussels in May , a tournament held for national champions , where she finished in third place .
2 Her visitors in the Exeter nursing home where she died on 7th December saw all the qualities which made her such a servant of the trade continue unabated to the end — the common sense and humour , the courage , and the huge interest in others .
3 Madame de Lully 's principal residence continued to be the house on the rue St Anne , parish of St Roch , where she had resided with her husband , and where she died on 3 May 1720 .
4 Rosa cast an eye at her mother 's frowning back where she attended to some task and tried to exchange a glance of impatience with Tommaso .
5 If only she could turn her back on the golden Dane whose gaze still ensnared her , lose herself in the masses and find her own way back to the hotel , but she was held where she stood by invisible chains .
6 He waved to her from the gate , where she stood like any housewife seeing off her man .
7 Her parents then moved to London and admitted her as a free scholar to the sculpture studio in the Royal College of Art , where she stayed for four years and graduated an A.R.C.A.
8 After time off to have children , she became a secretary at Kendall Primary School , Colchester , where she stayed for five years before moving at Myland .
9 They settled Iris in the passenger seat of the Golf , where she sat with closed eyes .
10 Renowned for her ‘ tomboyish tastes ’ ( she would , even in evening dress , always carry a knife and some string about her person ) , Emma went on to the School for Ornamental Art and began to support early Victorian feminist causes , making an initial living as a restorer of stained-glass windows notably in the chapel of Merton College , Oxford , where she worked for two years in the early 1860s .
11 Mrs Taylor , a devout Baptist , made her claim against a clothing store , Franlow , where she worked until last July .
12 Each one of them knew what he or she meant by true religion , and all of them were sure that the church and the government in England were wrong .
13 Held : An occupier of premises owed the same duty of care to a fireman attending the premises to extinguish the fire as he or she owed to other visitors under s. 2 of the OLA 1957 .
14 He arrived at Arenenberg on 4 August to find that Hortense , suffering from a cancer , was in fact dying , although she lingered until 9 October .
15 Had never felt the exquisite excitement that she felt at this moment .
16 That might in itself imply that she felt for some reason that she would be suspected , or perhaps she knew who the killer was and preferred to keep quiet .
17 On that instant she put down her comb , and turned her back on her dressing-table mirror — and at the same time rejected any notion that she felt in any way excited .
18 On the reverse of each plate is Cicely Mary Barker 's original poem that she penned for each fairy .
19 There is a local story that Queen Elizabeth spent a night here ; what is certain is that she passed on this road on her way from Burderop to Cirencester .
20 He recalled tales about her , that she had at one time belonged to a respectable family of farmers ; unbelievable now , for she could certainly no longer be placed in that category .
21 She had told him that Brenda was obsessively vegetarian , and that she longed for red meat : would he take her out ?
22 It turned out that she lived in some place called Romford and as she was due to take me back there the day after the funeral I had only been left with a few hours to make a decision .
23 I 'm told , though , that she went with some relief — because she would n't be around to witness what promised to be the ghastly ignominy of election day .
24 When she married a Kent farm labourer her own relatives disowned her : ‘ it was n't a very happy thing , you see , that she married into this family
25 What is medically certain is that she died of coronary thrombosis : there is no question of any foul play , except of course if the heart attack was brought on by the shock of finding someone in her room stealing the jewel she had come all the way from America to hand over to the Ashmolean Museum , or more specifically to Dr Theodore Kemp on behalf of the Museum .
26 The inquest heard that she died from multiple injuries .
27 She was so furious that she drove with exaggerated care back to Kalkara , in case she crashed into someone in her distracted state .
28 When pressed to give her views on Fatima , the daughter of the prophet Mohamad ( whose birthday is Women 's Day in Iran ) she praised Fatima but added that she belonged to 14 centuries ago .
29 I do n't know how he found out that she belonged to that lass , but find out he has .
30 That she belonged to some time , when I was a little kid , that had somehow been barred from my memory .
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