Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] she [be] " in BNC.

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1 Already her sailing ability had reached a level where she was able to make the minor corrections to hold the boat on course without even thinking .
2 In 1977 she elected to go to a nursing home in Regent 's Park where she was treated by Dr Maurice Lipsedge , a psychiatrist who , by pure coincidence , cared for Diana a decade later when she resolved to fight her bulimia .
3 Gathering her back into his arms , he unclipped the safety line on her lifejacket and lifted her on to the saloon settee where she was protected from the surging water by his BMW .
4 She works for American Vogue where she is a contributing editor , and is a proud member of The Academy Club .
5 She is Elizabeth Reid , 46 , who comes to Lothian from the London Guildhall University where she was deputy provost responsible for all aspects of planning and development including financial planning and employee relations .
6 She was led away into a crisp-looking cell where she was measured and weighed ; a careful , polite pair of hands found a vein in her strong arm and removed a vial of her blood .
7 It was Paddy who , on a June day in 1985 , dropped Sarah at Windsor Castle 's private entrance where she was met by a footman and taken to her room by one of the Queen 's ladies-in-waiting .
8 Occasionally , he broke off to bound up to Ruth Bassett 's bedroom where she was getting ready .
9 Rosamund Cresswell attends Farnborough Hill Convent College where she is studying for the GCSE examinations and in September she moves to the Sixth Form at Wellington College .
10 Scouting takes up much of Sarah 's spare time but she still squeezes in regular visits to Huddersfield Technical College where she is studying for two ‘ A ’ levels — geography and business studies .
11 Mrs X is at present attending a college where she is studying science , and desperately wishes to take up embalming as a career , but unfortunately this is where the problem begins .
12 I could not present them , at fifty-five and sixty , with the same situation they had had to face twenty years earlier when my mother had come home from the teacher 's training college where she was a lecturer in medieval history , given birth to me , and died of it .
13 She attended Wellesley College where she was the first student to deliver the graduation address .
14 In 1982 she transferred to Company Registration , Registrars Department where she was one of the founder members of the Savers Section .
15 And it were n't hurting him at all but it was making her feel sick thinking that she was hurting him like .
16 One of the Great Danes was simultaneously clambering into my lap , trying to get all four legs fitted into the available footage , under the delusion that she was some other size .
17 It was a continuation of her misguided perception that she was a world power and had to protect her Commonwealth and maintain an independent presence in the world .
18 He looked vaguely at her , and quickly and intently at his watch ; but at least he had returned to the consciousness that she was present .
19 It seems to be saying that the Queen of Hell , separating from the Sacred Bride/Divine Mother , becoming the Boar , fusing with Adonis , transforming him to Tarquin , and then destroying the Sacred Bride/Divine Mother under the illusion that she is the Queen of Hell , is the perpetuum mobile of the Equation . ’
20 The illusion that she was a spectator , and this was the play , was making her lose touch with reality ; and making her forget the enormity of her present predicament .
21 Curbishley then won the 300 metres in equally convincing fashion , being able to ease off down the home straight once she was assured of victory , but still shaving a second off the record in 42.2 secs .
22 Jess felt such a deep sense of disappointment that she was startled by it .
23 Now he felt disappointment that she was behaving so predictably .
24 And then only , gently rolled off the seat that she was sitting on and tried to crawl the way back !
25 With reports in wide circulation that she was amassing a multi-million fortune at the rate of £620,000 a month , Kylie was also able to indulge in her passion for shopping .
26 Although she was astute enough to understand this on a logical basis , it took several sessions of counselling and therapy to convince Myra 's subconscious mind that she was in no way to blame and that she had behaved naturally and in total innocence .
27 What Sylvia had accomplished while doing her homework was to convince her subconscious mind that she was quite capable of entering an enclosed space without fear ; and since it is the subconscious which is responsible for sending out all those panic signals — the racing heart , the sweating palms , the feelings of nausea and so on — those symptoms did not appear .
28 Anyway , he had given her enough money to have the baby comfortably ; and she had already made up her mind that she was n't going to have it adopted .
29 There was little doubt left in her mind that she was pregnant .
30 She prayed steadily , all those seventeen years , for guidance , for confirmation that she was still fulfilling divine purpose , and was only interrupted at last by her mother 's voice , demanding in a querulous letter that Isobel should come home and nurse her while she died — as she had been told she soon would — of cancer .
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