Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] she [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On her left hand she still wore a slim gold band — a wedding ring , I assume , from her second husband , Baron Michael de Stempel , currently serving four years for fraud , along with the Baroness 's two children by her first husband Simon Dale , Georgia Sophia ( serving 30 months ) and Xenophon Marcus ( eighteen months ) . |
| 2 | In her later years she never missed a hymn session on television or radio . |
| 3 | On her unlucky nights she really would benefit enormously from a gift of blood . |
| 4 | It would mean returning to Wellington with a broken heart , and despite their short acquaintance she already knew it would be a long time before she would be able to evict him from her thoughts . |
| 5 | During her short career she ambitiously taught herself the principal and solo roles as well as the corps de ballet parts of the various ballets by careful attention during rehearsal and performance , and by assiduously watching even the works in which she did not appear ( such as Le Spectre de la Rose ) . |
| 6 | To her enormous relief she suddenly saw it running down the passage , she leant against the wall , how tiresome of that spider to come to her when it might have gone to anyone else . |
| 7 | In her spare time she also plays the piano and harp and goes horse-riding . |
| 8 | Some six months after her First Communion she still felt very holy and full of Grace and ever aware of her Guardian Angel . |
| 9 | Because the development officer in Ipswich was not able to see these institutionalised clients in their own homes she understandably found it hard in many cases to say whether or not she agreed with the decision that they should not return home . |
| 10 | But in her tragic situation she clearly resented my being young and alive while her daughter was young and dead . |
| 11 | Louise Dunstaple , who had once been so fair , now looked like some consumptive Irish girl you might find walking the London streets ; in spite of the angry red spots on her pale brow she no longer wore the poultice of flour … the temptation had been too much for her and she had eaten it . |
| 12 | However deeply involved she might be in her own conversation she rarely missed anything that was said by those around her . |
| 13 | The news that she had in fact been successful in her interview went a very long way to ease her bruised feelings — so much so that when the day dawned when she was to start her new job she almost forgot to pull her hair back into a screwed-up knot , and to don her glasses . |
| 14 | She could count on the fingers of one hand the people she actually enjoyed having on the premises ; most of her other visitors she merely tolerated and a few of them had the power to make her feel violated . |
| 15 | By virtue of her fluent Hebrew she once led prayers at a Passover feast of wealthy Moroccan Jews — the only one present who could read them in the absence of a rabbi . |
| 16 | … on the one hand , close to being submerged by the detritus of civilization whose broken-up quality she both registers and exemplifies … ; on the other hand , playing with that very sense of loss , that same detritus , and producing ( sometimes ) an exhilarating laughter . |
| 17 | Despite his calm composure she suddenly had the feeling that the fierce slap was far from forgiven … |
| 18 | ‘ No , ’ she mumbled , sagging suddenly , so that if it had n't have been for his firm grip she probably would have sunk to the ground , ‘ I did n't think . |
| 19 | For his own good she frequently reminded him of the horrors and deprivations that would befall him there . |
| 20 | In his mordant presence she always felt vulgar and self-indulgent . |