Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ships had some 10 miles to go ; the MLs had used their extra fuel and filled the spare tanks with seawater as they stole into the estuary in two columns , headed by MGB 314 : These motorboats are difficult to handle at slow speed and Campbeltown was sluggish , but at speed she drew an extra foot aft and every inch counted as she came towards the mud . |
| 2 | Without so much as a backward glance she left the room , indignation clear in the rigidity of her spine as his mocking laugh rang out behind her . |
| 3 | On the southern side she saw the mandarin silks of the beginnings of civilisation and the huge courage of the Long March ; and on the other , to the north , the eternal silence of the greatest desolation . |
| 4 | With guidance she picked a long , beaded dress with a side split and see-through sleeves , which she wore to a special anniversary dinner . |
| 5 | When Leonora returned to the bedroom she found the bed turned down invitingly . |
| 6 | Back in her bedroom she settled the little dog beside the still-warm hot-water bottle in her own bed . |
| 7 | Stay at Goulding 's Lodge , a ranch built for the set of the movie She Wore A Yellow Ribbon ( this , remember , was John Ford country ) and surrounded by high open desert . |
| 8 | With a sigh of satisfation she drained the last of her soup from the Thermos cup and chewed the remaining scrap of bread and cheese . |
| 9 | Even if she left the dubious sanctuary of the car she had no clue to the best direction in which to seek help . |
| 10 | About fifty metres from the car she discovered a passageway which sliced between the terraces . |
| 11 | Outside in her car she kept a tight grip on herself , refusing to let her humiliation reduce her to tears . |
| 12 | He asked about her journey , and sitting beside him in the car she recounted the mix-up over the sleeper numbers , enjoying , still , hearing herself speak French . |
| 13 | After jumping nimbly from the freight car she closed the door , picked up her holdall , and hurried towards the fence . |
| 14 | As an undergraduate she wrote a novel , The World at Eighteen ( 1907 ) , and she became actively involved in the constitutional wing of the women 's suffrage movement , led by ( Dame ) Millicent Fawcett [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | Then in her mind she heard an echo of the words her teacher , a martial arts master , had used time and time again . |
| 16 | Somewhere in her mind she registered the fact it was still pumping . |
| 17 | Over a cup of tea she regaled the old lady with the story of her son and grandchild saving the wounded squirrel , and , leaving her to pass it on to her companions , she drove back to the surgery . |
| 18 | Back at the hacienda she abandoned the horses and fled to her room , leaving the others to see to them and turn them into the enclosures . |
| 19 | As a result she developed a ‘ repulsion ’ to men and to her mother 's creed that ‘ a bad husband is better than none ’ . |
| 20 | Hell , it was n't her fault she had a scoundrel for a grandson . |
| 21 | She did what she could with her tousled mass of auburn curls , but when she twisted it into its usual topknot the starkness of the style served only to emphasise the weariness in her wide-set eyes , and with a little mutter of disgust she let the curls fall again , tumbling about her shoulders in riotous abandon . |
| 22 | At the second attempt she made the connection and heard the telephone begin to ring at the other end . |
| 23 | At first interview she said the strain of looking after her mother-in-law was considerable , that it was putting a strain on her marriage in that she and her husband were always quarrelling these days , and that she had got to the point when ‘ I feel I ca n't go on any longer ’ . |
| 24 | Into each piece she inserted a small two-pronged cylinder the size and shape of a small capacitor , and twisted each of them . |
| 25 | As she leaned in the doorway she surveyed the gloomy décor . |
| 26 | Gwendolen , thoroughly upset by the morning 's events but mindful of her appointment for dinner that evening , decided to slip into Mr Horrell 's , in order to purchase some of his advertised Special Skin Soap , In the doorway she met the subject of her dinner appointment himself . |
| 27 | As she looked in the doorway she noticed a man standing there . |
| 28 | Around her neck she wore the famous ‘ Regent ’ , the diamond beyond compare in its beauty which is part of the Crown jewels , while on her head sparkled a magnificent tiara . |
| 29 | Around her neck she put a thin early Victorian gold chain , on her right hand a fire opal she had recently had reset in a simple gold ring , on her left wrist the gold Baume & Mercier watch . |
| 30 | In the spring she planted a garden of remembrance round the grave using all the flowers her mother had loved . |