Example sentences of "she [art] " in BNC.

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1 But it was she the older , the larger and clumsier , who listened to him over supper .
2 No longer had she the ache of longing for that stretch of white road leading round to the sycamores .
3 Is she the one in the picture ? ’ she went on , smirking slightly .
4 ‘ Is she the same ? ’
5 It was hard to imagine Eleanor 's contrariness , since she rarely saw it , but even , Dorothea told herself , were she the dearest , most unselfish soul in the world , she is old , nevertheless , Alida has to carry heavily trays up and down stairs and see the food being left uneaten , to get up in the middle of night after night , to listen to the rambling memories , to put up with incoherence and with having to repeat everything because her mother did not remember .
6 Was she the author of the Casket Letters , those letters which totally implicated her in the murder , or were they forgeries ?
7 Mrs Sugden meant no harm to anyone , but neither had she the intelligence to be really kind .
8 Or is she the individual ?
9 She seems to have a moth-like fragility until , spellbound by the weightless command she exercises in a long , intimate soliloquy , you realise that you are the moth and she the candle .
10 The secretary of each level of the party had quasi-absolute power over the members below him , and Elena had a double advantage : not only was she the Party secretary able to veto or grant small privileges for her colleagues , her husband was much of the time the Second Secretary in the Party at large , controlling the day-to-day business of the Romanian Communists under Dej 's supervision .
11 Is she the evil mother , who tries to prevent her daughter Pamina from discovering her true father , Sarastro , and entering the Temple of Wisdom ?
12 Or is she the dark , instinctive force which Pamina must acknowledge and cease to accept unquestioningly , separating herself from it so that she can grow and begin her life 's journey ?
13 She the heroine entrapped by family expectations ; he a faithful and stoic , if unimaginative hero .
14 If anyone could have written it , why was she the only one to have done so ?
15 And has n't she the very face of a heart ? ’
16 Is she the right person to do it from a Catholic school ?
17 If she had failed to love her mother , she the missionary , what must it be like for people who , without God , had not even got a Christian obligation to try ?
18 Was she the bait to lure him into a trap ?
19 Narrow was the gate and the hillsides were crowded with the serried dwellings of the cramped and groaning multitudes , the ranks of the Unelect , and she the one white soul flew dangerously forth into some glorious and exclusive shining heaven .
20 He was a tawny lion poised for the kill — and was she the prey ?
21 Was she the woman we met on the road last night ? ’
22 Is she the first woman to have a baby ?
23 And it was going , but she doing something and she the Lady seen her going through a corridor and she said to her , Run Annie run .
24 as if I was the infant and she the elder !
25 Why is she the Crown Princess , while I am only her Captain ? ’
26 Is she the right colour ?
27 Was n't she the nightclub singer , Rosalli ? ’
28 ‘ Is she the one you … ? ’
29 What a goose she was , she the loved and wanted one , to be afflicted even for a moment by any threat or doubt .
30 Now this agreement witnesseth that in consideration of the said John Weston Foakes paying to the said Julia Beer on the signing of this agreement the sum of £500 , the receipt whereof she doth hereby acknowledge in part satisfaction of the said judgment debt of £2,090 19s. , and on condition of his paying her or her executors , administrators , assigns or nominee the sum of £150 on the 1st day of July and the 1st day of January or within one calendar month after each of the said days respectively in every year until the whole of the said sum of £2,090 19s. shall have been fully paid and satisfied , the first of such payments to be made on the 1st day of July next , then she the said Julia Beer hereby undertakes and agrees that she , her executors , administrators or assigns , will not take any proceedings whatever on the said judgment .
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