Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [pron] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time Clare learnt what a passionate woman 's kisses were like , on the lips of one she loved with all her heart and soul , as Tess loved him . |
| 2 | She felt the presences of whatever she 'd seen , like a cold breath on her spine . |
| 3 | Patricia Morgan plumps for this timescale in her critique of the ‘ New Establishment ’ of social workers , psychologists , teachers and other exponents of what she calls the ‘ New Socio-Psychological Expertise ’ of child care and education . |
| 4 | In recording life on board troopship , which she noted mainly in very quick sketches of which she has special mastery , Linda Kitson noted the macabre elements of military training and equipment against the cushioned setting of a luxury liner ; for example , the Rudolf Steiner Hair Salon , which housed the signals squadron . |
| 5 | In recording life on board troopship , which she noted mainly in very quick sketches of which she has special mastery , Linda Kitson noted the macabre elements of military training and equipment against the cushioned setting of a luxury liner ; for example , the Rudolf Steiner Hair Salon , which housed the signals squadron . |
| 6 | She said this with a certain violence , and Clara 's attention quickened , for she thought she was about to witness the emergence of one of the buried conflicts of which she had heard so much : but Mrs Denham said quickly , " For goodness sake , Clelia , you know how good it is for me to have James around , it takes me back to those lovely days when you were all so small and docile . " |
| 7 | But just before the deal was finalised , Ms Cann realised there were four more Animals of Farthing Wood titles of which she had been unaware . |
| 8 | This made her late with the lunch , and at the table she found the young men impossible to talk to because she was trying to retain the lines of what she had prepared to say . |
| 9 | A large sculpture , primitive in nature and in texture , African she thought , although she had not cared to ask him , fearing he might expand rather more than she had bargained for on the origins of what she suspected to be a goddess of fertility . |
| 10 | In any case , how could she look into his eyes and convince him she would n't touch him with a ten-foot pole when every time he came within a few feet of her she quivered inside , remembering the fierce and all too brief pressure of his mouth on hers ? |
| 11 | She had , apparently , spent little of the money on herself , had been a dependable benefactress of the few eccentric charities of which she approved , had remembered them in her will , but without egregious generosity , and had left the residue of her estate to him without explanation , admonition or peculiar protestations of affection , although he had no doubt that the words ‘ my dearly beloved nephew ’ meant exactly what they said . |
| 12 | Blanche looked up for a moment to chew the implications of what she had just read when another alien sound impinged . |
| 13 | He believed — or wished to believe — that she had not understood the implications of what she had said about Alice . |
| 14 | Like several other story-tellers active in the novel , she includes in her narrative bits and pieces of what she reads and hears around her . |
| 15 | And one who did not want to be punished , either , was their other comment , as witness the way he was prepared to kill Rose Hilaire once he saw that her tie-up with Joe and John Coffin would enable her memories of what she had seen of Ephraim 's body to go straight to dangerous quarters . |
| 16 | I sat there trying to remember all the details of what she had told me . |
| 17 | In all her time with him she had never told him the details of what she had seen , that day one summer . |
| 18 | Miss Murdock , who appears to have had a sense of humour , expressed her high regard for the autochrome process , the delights of which she said , were mainly due to the high number of failures that made the occasional success all the more thrilling . |
| 19 | Miss Murdock , who appears to have had a sense of humour , expressed her high regard for the autochrome process , the delights of which she said , were mainly due to the high number of failures that made the occasional successes all the more thrilling . |
| 20 | He knew that the embers of whatever she had once felt for her fiancé still glowed . |
| 21 | She was called upon , day after day , to sustain Mrs Browning in her awful anxiety and she did it willingly , dragging out from the furthermost corners of her memory evidence of Miss Henrietta s strength and fortitude together with examples of women of whom she had heard who had survived this disease . |
| 22 | By the looks of it she has all the potential you foresaw . ’ |
| 23 | Ursula stubbed out one cigarette and lit another while Charlotte stared straight ahead , trying to assemble in her mind all the consequences of what she had heard . |
| 24 | She still woke often in the night full of strange forebodings , but with the Reverend Baron to confide in and laugh at her wilder interpretations of what she had dreamed , she survived better . |
| 25 | She saw unshadowed earth in yellow light , more vines , new shoots of what she did not recognise as young maize . |
| 26 | She had doubts about the road but then found herself driving along the grey fortress walls of what she hoped might be the Castello Crocetto . |
| 27 | Not even a shuttered window was to be seen , just the barred doors and high , featureless walls of what she guessed were mainly warehouses . |