Example sentences of "she [verb] a [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1697 she made a tour of the north and of Kent and in the following year she made her ‘ Great Journey to Newcastle and to Cornwall ’ . |
| 2 | If she made a success of the job it would mean a permanent saving in police manpower as well as a useful training for her . |
| 3 | The first voice made a request for permission to use the campsite area for a group of boys during the next school break , and after stopping the machine she made a note of the name and address to which she would send confirmation . |
| 4 | Her face wore a slight look of concern , and she made a note of the reading before looking to smile a brief acknowledgement of Lindsey 's arrival . |
| 5 | ‘ Thank you , miss , I 'm sure , ’ he said , as she unearthed a pile of the fearsome periodicals beloved by the lamented Mrs Dibdin . |
| 6 | She became a member of the non-militant wing of the women 's suffrage movement , the Fabian Society , and the Women 's Labour League . |
| 7 | She became a member of the advisory committee of London magistrates , and editor of Labour Woman . |
| 8 | She became a member of the Salvation Army Students ' Fellowship and was soon fully involved in university life . |
| 9 | In many ways she became a symbol of the White Revolution during the sixties . |
| 10 | Taught by her father ( a native of the Donegal Gaeltacht ) and guided by Monaghan singer Oliver Mulligan , she became a doyenne of the London Irish music scene . |
| 11 | Katy Parker , a development officer from Kent , first became interested in PEPs 18 months ago when she visited a branch of the Woolwich Building Society . |
| 12 | She wants a copy of the book when it 's published . ’ |
| 13 | For a moment , she caught a glimpse of the victim 's face . |
| 14 | Now there was longing and bitterness in his voice and she caught a glimpse of the man she had met on the boat . |
| 15 | That afternoon , when she found him giving Huw Pritchard a boxing-lesson , she caught a glimpse of the old Connor — the man she loved , the man she had married . |
| 16 | Every so often she caught a glimpse of the green , tiered wedding-cake-style steeple of St Nikolai church rising two hundred and thirty feet into the air . |
| 17 | She caught a glimpse of the ruffled bed beyond , noted his tousled hair and hastily tied robe , covering very little of his tanned torso , and wished quite desperately that they did n't hate each other . |
| 18 | The car slowed down and a chill swept over as she caught a glimpse of the driver . |
| 19 | She moved a couple of the sheets to make way for the saucers . |
| 20 | She has a vision of the hunchback standing on tiptoe gazing into large saucepans , or moving crabwise round the table . |
| 21 | She found a shard of the broken totem and picked it up , feeling its dry , dead surface . |
| 22 | The plates flickered past , solemn and beautiful faces , sleeping soldiers , angels carrying flutes , and then a page fell open more easily because , slipped into it , she found a sheet of the villa 's notepaper on which was typed what she at first thought to be a shopping-list , but , as she began to read , discovered it was no such thing . |
| 23 | So for the next few months she used a variant of the tactics she had tried to perfect with her parents : do what you 're told and keep your head down . |
| 24 | She lifted a corner of the curtain first to make sure it was safe . |
| 25 | She ate a bit of the cake , and then put her hand on top of her head . |
| 26 | ‘ Each and every time a subject assessor visits a centre , he or she submits a report of the outcome to SCOTVEC . |
| 27 | Jean loved it because , mind you she forgot a lot of the words did n't she ? |
| 28 | She fetched a handful of the aniseed-smelling leaves from the kitchen-garden , stripped them , limp and thin , from their stems . |
| 29 | She opened a drawer of the kitchen-dresser and pulled out a photograph , which she gave to Ruth . |
| 30 | How was it possible that in a single fraction of a second , and for the very first time , she discovered a motion of the arm and body so perfect and polished that it resembled a finished work of art ? |