Example sentences of "[noun] she is [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Sarrance she is said to have written a part of her celebrated Heptameron , which is the French equivalent , even if frankly not the equal , of Boccaccio 's Decameron , a collection of seventy-two intermittently salacious stories . |
| 2 | After 40 days she is encouraged to put aside her black clothes , but she received positive family support . |
| 3 | Someone doing all the things she is alleged to have done . |
| 4 | Hidden by her handmaids she is seen to blush , then turns to Actaeon and throws water in his face to blind him , to stop him seeing her naked , but that is not enough and she knows it is not enough , and soon he feels the horns growing on his forehead , dat sparso capiti vivacis cornus cervis , she caused to grow on his head the horns of the long-lived stag , as if the cost of seeing her naked had to be death , first metamorphosis then death . |
| 5 | It may start with the first glimpse she gets of the man she is destined to love , or the man she believes wrongly that she is destined to love . |
| 6 | Heading a homicide enquiry is a prize which has always eluded her , until against all the odds she is appointed to head a case . |
| 7 | I smile at Rachel in a slow , sad-way she is bound to misinterpret . |