Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leonora straightened her shoulders , pale and vulnerable in the plain black sweater and skirt she wore in the shop . |
| 2 | In the privacy of her bedroom she grimaced in the direction of the voice and made her way downstairs , taking her time , not caring if he went grey in the process of waiting for her . |
| 3 | Guy Sterne 's eyes held a glitter of amusement , but a darker emotion she saw in the pale green-grey brought colour sweeping up her neck to her face . |
| 4 | She seems to have a moth-like fragility until , spellbound by the weightless command she exercises in a long , intimate soliloquy , you realise that you are the moth and she the candle . |
| 5 | The Niue People 's Action Party ( NPAP ) , Niue 's only formal political association ( which was strongly opposed to the leadership of Sir Robert Rex who had dominated politics since Niue became self-governing ) , made gains with the victory of sympathizers including Tauveve Jacobsen , who retained the seat she won in a 1989 by-election , and Sani Lakitani , the founder of the NPAP . |
| 6 | She has started to reject the liver and bowel she received in a transplant last year after a huge fund-raising campaign to send her to America . |
| 7 | A pupil of Gustav Holst at St Paul 's Girls School , Ramsey was devoted to music and as a flautist she played in the Cumberland Symphony Orchestra when she went to live in Cumbria . |
| 8 | It was then that she met ‘ the love of my life ’ : he answered an ad she placed in the local paper for someone to read to her . |
| 9 | Melanie never found out to whom the plastic toy she discovered in the bath on her first morning belonged . |
| 10 | After going to Sheffield University she worked in a London store and trained to be a pilot in her spare time . |
| 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 | For a moment she stood in the doorway , allowing her eyes to adjust to the gloomy interior . |
| 13 | Felawnah , supplemented along with Dayflower earlier in the week , finished fourth , the same place she occupied in the Newmarket equivalent . |
| 14 | Besides , Mandy came over and started tickling her feet with a peacock plume she kept in a vase by the door . |
| 15 | In the evening after milking she walked in the garden alone , thinking about it . |
| 16 | Although the moon was riding high in the sky , and shedding a rather weird , eerie glow on the flowering shrubs and various trees edging the green lawn , she was surprised at how much more calm and at ease she felt in the soft , enveloping darkness as she picked her way carefully over the sand . |
| 17 | With the same courage she showed in the playground , Howey has been competing in senior international events since the age of 15 , winning the world and European junior championships as well as senior bronze and silver medals at world and European level . |
| 18 | But what was that patch of dark red she glimpsed in the driveway , through the shading trees ? |
| 19 | THE minute she walked in the joint , she could see he was a man of distinction — probably Britain 's best-known tramp . |
| 20 | For a while she hovered in the doorway of a film company building and watched the steady but sparse traffic of shoppers , office messengers and business types who were using the pathways through the square 's railed park as a shortcut on their way to somewhere else … but then a gold-braided security guard stepped out and asked if he could help her , and it was clear that she was being told to move on . |
| 21 | It was a sardonic jibe , but as she reached out to accept the proffered wine she met his eyes , and felt jolted by the gleam of warmth she detected in the grey-green depths . |
| 22 | With each day she spent in the sun these crucial questions mattered less . |
| 23 | Every day she spent in the dungeon meant that fitzAlan came closer . |
| 24 | Half at least of her day she spent in the closed and sealed place of her lady 's captivity , half of her night imprisoned with the boy . |
| 25 | The next day she goes in the . |
| 26 | What about the day she collapsed in the the hairdressers and only we 're going for a drink . |
| 27 | This was in the mid-thirties when Miss Gladys Batchelor niece of " Spot " Batchelor , owner of the cement works , would visit her uncle and land her light aircraft in the village , on one occasion she landed in an autogyro , the early equivalent of a helicopter . |
| 28 | This , of course , delighted the child and every night she stood in the wings performing everybody 's act with them , and even at the end of two shows , she was as bright in the dressing room as she 'd been at the overture . |
| 29 | After more than thirty years of such varied service she decided in the Autumn of 1987 on partial retirement , retaining for two more years merely the editorship of the newsletter and membership of the committee organising the centenary celebrations . |
| 30 | When his mouth engulfed her sex she held in a long breath . |