Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] she [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of this interview will be to assess the elderly person 's financial needs , the income she has from all sources , and her capital ( if any ) , and to establish whether she is entitled to receive a supplementary pension or allowance . |
| 2 | ‘ I pity the lady if that 's all the sympathy she gets from you ! ’ she snapped . |
| 3 | But , pushing him aside , she gathered her cloak around her , made so bravely from those two old plush tablecloths , and began to walk downhill — the direction she happened to be facing — until she came to St Jude 's churchyard where she sat on a gravestone , her head in her hands , and shivered . |
| 4 | The blight she cast on his work was something he did n't care to inspect , for she certainly wished him well . |
| 5 | The structure of the work takes the form of a dialogue between an ‘ autobiographizing ’ narrator persona and an interrogative voice which raises reservations about the validity of the whole enterprise : at various points throughout the text statements and versions of events are contradicted and contested , thus inscribing the anticipated response of the reader in a manner reminiscent of the technique she used to great effect in her previous book , L'Usage de la parole ( 1980 ) . |
| 6 | Then in the afternoon she played with Diana , or talked happily to Matthew while he worked on the farm . |
| 7 | In the afternoon she returns with another woman , who waits for her . |
| 8 | Diana not only ostentatiously wore outfits that she had been seen in before — to knock a few criticisms on the head about the money she spent on her wardrobe — but she also seized the opportunity to kill off a few more misconceptions . |
| 9 | It 's come round to collect the money she asked for it . |
| 10 | With the money she received after his death she had an outbuilding converted into a studio and into one wall inserted a memorial plaque , giving Minton 's name and dates . |
| 11 | If she had cashed in her units at that day 's prices , just two of 102 ‘ UK general ’ trusts recorded by Finstat ( a Financial Times subsidiary ) would have given her back 100% or more of the money she put in a year earlier . |
| 12 | A better balance than elsewhere between industry and agriculture was the advantage she derived from slower industrial growth ; she also owed to it some of her resilience and powers of recovery after two world wars . |
| 13 | She and the photographer she works with are caught up in an investigation that shakes her out of her complacency — and into the shadowy world of covert operations against the dictatorship . |
| 14 | Finally , I would observe that the justice in this case is not to be criticised for the decision she reached on the Friday , which was based on advice given her by a legally qualified court clerk , reinforced by the submission of the representative of the Crown Prosecution Service and acquiesced in by the defendant 's solicitor . |
| 15 | A few hours in Richard 's company was just the antidote she needed to Luke 's volatility . |
| 16 | Yet all this frankness was fundamentally an act : to fill the silence that she feared in others , to ward off the invisibility she feared in herself . |
| 17 | When she walked into the kitchen she came to a shocked halt . |
| 18 | When I 'm in the kitchen she calls to me from the sitting room , where she is sewing . |
| 19 | In the kitchen she shrank before her aunt 's wrath and trembling hands . |
| 20 | As he stormed from the kitchen she cried after him , ‘ Do that ! |
| 21 | Then she snatched a cigarette from a box , her hand shaking so much she laughed at the difficulty she had in lighting it . |
| 22 | Jay lay on her bed , sipping coffee and touching her own face with the tenderness she felt for Lucy , closed her eyes with the dizzy perfection of that moment in the conservatory when they had touched , when she had touched Lucy , and Lucy had walked beside her , seen what she saw ; when her eyes had met Jay 's , dancing with the glory of it all . |
| 23 | The look she flung at him now was one of incredulity . |
| 24 | The look she cast across the table said clearly that she personally intended to make sure that was the case , and Shannon felt a strange little shiver in her spine . |
| 25 | The shape of the parcel she put on Michael 's make-up table showed that , for him at least , she had graduated to full-size bottles of champagne . |
| 26 | The badge she wore on one lapel proclaimed that her name was Molly . |
| 27 | Everything that happened to Millie during that first week in the House of Christ the Saviour she objected to . |
| 28 | Anything that came from the convent she regarded as her right . |
| 29 | Back in the early 60's , David and a group called The Lower Third would travel to gigs in an old ambulance , and Dana Gillespie recalls the story she heard of them ‘ scoring ’ one night when the van was parked in Piccadilly Circus . |
| 30 | So she begged Jack to let her go for a swim , as it was so hot that day , out to the reef , where she could find the weed she needed in fresh , young supply . |