Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] she had " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , to her relief , the voice that greeted her from the other side of the oak door , though indistinct , was that of the porter she had met so briefly the evening before . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't see why you ca n't come to me until your dream man comes along , ’ he said , and she wanted to hit him , all the sympathy she had felt drowning in his sarcasm . |
| 3 | The Doctor peered in the direction she had indicated . |
| 4 | And furthermnore , as O'Keeffe continued the direction she had set for her art in 1923 , various critics accentuated their assessments of her work with words such as ‘ courageous ’ , ‘ imaginative ’ , ‘ introspective ’ , and ‘ original ’ — all having traditionally ‘ masculine ’ connotations . |
| 5 | She was utterly shocked when he put her firmly from him and she saw him button the shirt she had succeeded in undoing . |
| 6 | Penelope , however , it had to be acknowledged , had made no attempt to rise above the blow she had been dealt by finding a dazzling girl of her own age favoured over herself in her uncle 's will . |
| 7 | Alone , Franca washed her face in cold water in the kitchen , washing off the powder she had just put on . |
| 8 | She sat down in front of it and looked at the half-page she had typed that morning . |
| 9 | Inside , in the warm living room , with a glass of chilled dry wine to drink and Mozart to listen to on the CD , she was far from the tiredness she had claimed earlier . |
| 10 | In the afternoon she had to trust Ruth on the way home . |
| 11 | By the end of the afternoon she had replaced her wardrobe from top to tail , had acquired an evening dress that was out of this world , and had had her hair freshly washed and styled . |
| 12 | She thought guiltily of the money she had been spending on new clothes and of the new slippers she had ordered with the amethyst decoration . |
| 13 | The money she had drawn out , emptying her account , less than a hundred pounds but better than nothing , was already in her bag . |
| 14 | All she had taken out of Ireland when she had fled had been the money she had made there and her trade — and her trade was that of a Madam . |
| 15 | She promised Louis all the money she had earned , and asked him to go to his cousin who would contact the SOE reseau . |
| 16 | ‘ This is not some countries , ’ retorted my mother , perhaps wondering again whether the money she had spent so that I might learn French and a little grace had been utterly wasted , for I had learned only superstition and discontent . |
| 17 | She only had about fifty pence left from the money she had borrowed from her stepfather the day before , but she hoped that the young Italian barman , who fancied her , had not yet been sacked or moved on and would give her a margarita , free . |
| 18 | Ella silenced her arguments in one fell swoop by producing the money she had been saving from her grant all the months Eva had been at university . |
| 19 | Was he referring to the damage she had inflicted on his car ? |
| 20 | Mrs Denham refused his offer , and tucked the baby under one arm , and started to drag the blanket she had been sitting on after her into the house . |
| 21 | It was warm in the kitchen and the fire cast a soft light on Carrie who was kneeling in front of the fire , folding the blanket she had been airing . |
| 22 | He was moved and promising miracles , the recovery of things lost , the wholeness and holiness of things profaned ; but the faith she had professed was perhaps no more than a conviction that the star of the Prince of Aberffraw would not fail him , and that God would humour him and not cheat him of the fulfilment of his vow . |
| 23 | In her letter she told him about her job , her salary and the contract she had won yesterday . |
| 24 | For his part , Branson was within his rights to insist that Wilson abide by the contract she had signed , but he agreed to renegotiate . |
| 25 | ‘ We 're all fine , there 's no damage to the building and we 've been able to continue broadcasting without interruption , ’ she assured him , her voice sharp as resentment rose , and she went on to inform him of the decision she had taken . |
| 26 | She had debated long and hard with herself over the course she should take , and reaching the decision she had had n't been easy . |
| 27 | What was wrong with the excuse she had used to Geoffrey : that she was trying to retrieve a set of her own notes from Puddephat . |
| 28 | The apartment she had been in had been a single room — like his own , spartanly furnished — and she had had to share washing and night-soil facilities . |
| 29 | In the heat of the kitchen she had removed her costume jacket and hung it over the back of a nearby chair . |
| 30 | That meant that as well as the cheque she had just written for her first month 's rent on her new accommodation , she would have to find three months ' mortgage from somewhere . |