Example sentences of "[noun] by the [noun] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had n't been for the triumphant glitter in his eyes she would have been lost ; as it was , he had pulled her zip down and was easing her dress from her shoulders by the time she 'd steeled herself to thrust hard against his shoulders with both hands and roll off the bed . |
| 2 | Tug could tell that she was desperately in earnest by the way she opened her eyes wide and by the little sudden lift of her eyebrows . |
| 3 | After they saw the pig — a pot-bellied Vietnamese — on Central News South last night — Environmental Health officers warned the pig 's owner that she 's breaking the law by the way she looks after it at home . |
| 4 | She had regained her senses by the time she made her way back with his drink . |
| 5 | She seemed to accept without question that Alexandra was the one who would handle the crisis , if it was still a crisis by the time she got into the office . |
| 6 | Her ‘ failure ’ to marry and bear children ( coupled with her insistence on confining her household work to the things she liked best — kneading bread , sewing and gardening ) secured time and energy with which to think and write : there were more than seventeen hundred poems by the time she died in 1886 . |
| 7 | It was dusk by the time she checked out of the Shelbourne ; night was approaching rapidly . |
| 8 | A girl could be earning 10s a week by the time she was 18 : better pay than most of the other teenage working girls in the CECOS Report , who were usually in low-paid service ( as domestics or laundry-workers ) or low-paid factory workers ( machinists , paper-bag makers ) . |
| 9 | Already she was tired , and by the looks of the flat by the time she was finished she would be exhausted . |
| 10 | Her body was still damp and the garment was too tight , so she was pink with exertion by the time she had managed to zip it up . |
| 11 | It would have been a long walk to here , and no doubt some other person would have been offering a dubious lift by the time she arrived . |
| 12 | Sara 's legs were trembling with exhaustion by the time she reached the stables . |
| 13 | The sound of strange footsteps upset all the animals , who gave tongue in their various ways , and a deafening concert was in full swing by the time she reached the door and rang the bell . |
| 14 | They were all the wrong shades for me ( for her too ) and I looked like a tired clown by the time she 'd finished , but on my previous appearance anything would have been an improvement . |
| 15 | Having to get up very early in the mornings he tended to be in bed by the time she arrived home on the last bus from Bath . |
| 16 | Rather to Folly 's surprise , Lisa seemed to have things well in hand by the time she had calmed down enough to return to the Rose Bowl . |
| 17 | Well , at least one good thing would come out of this trip , she decided philosophically — she would know a great deal more about Denmark 's capital city by the time she returned to England . |
| 18 | That one was just a pleasant memory by the time she re-appeared . |
| 19 | She manoeuvred herself so she was crouched between him and the rocks , and taking his long hard knob by the root she began waving it under her nose like a conductor 's baton . |
| 20 | Other metalepses include letters written to Mira by the characters she invents , and arguments with terrorists of her own creation . |
| 21 | The others had been gone for an hour by the time she was ready to leave . |
| 22 | It will probably cost the bridesmaid a lot more in back pain by the time she distributes them round the hall . |