Example sentences of "she [verb] [art] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | With clenched teeth , keeping her head low and her eyes half-closed , she hugged the cliff-face and inched her way along . |
| 2 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 3 | At the private view of that year 's Royal Academy Summer Exhibition she met the architect and put the proposition to him . |
| 4 | She spent much of her time in Swahili-land , where she met the poet and scholar Muhammad Kijumwa al-Bakry , who provided her with manuscripts and information about the language and literature of the Swahili-speaking people . |
| 5 | As her swing got better and better , so she revealed an attitude and inner calm which are not given to very many . |
| 6 | She lowered the glasses and glanced at her wrist . |
| 7 | She read the title and inscription . |
| 8 | But the clerk did not do anything to see that she read the letter and she did not read it . |
| 9 | She roasted a chicken and made a fresh fruit trifle for supper as it was my last night . |
| 10 | ’ She emptied the pot and gave Annie a hug . |
| 11 | He watched her face as she scanned the street and the square ahead for a few seconds and then moved on . |
| 12 | Far too often she lacked the precision and patience of Javer , who was quite content to enter into baseline rallies and await the errors . |
| 13 | According to Henry , she shared the kitchen and the bathroom with her three lodgers , all single women much the same age as herself . |
| 14 | She managed throughout the following years to maintain a front of firmness and dignity , earning the respect of the Germans and at the same time extracting the best terms she could for Sark and its people , with whom she shared the hunger and other privations of occupation , the anxieties engendered by two unsuccessful British commando raids , and the pain of separation when many islanders , including her husband , were deported to German prison camps . |
| 15 | The Irish President , Mary Robinson , had earlier said she shared the sorrow and anguish of the people of her country . |
| 16 | She nurses a vodka and orange and sits still with long stockinged legs turned inwardly but not awkwardly . |
| 17 | Her prophetic framework was based largely on the writings of Thomas Brightman [ q.v. ] and John Archer ; she expected the conversion and restoration of the Jews in 1656 , and the full establishment of Christ 's kingdom by 1701 . |
| 18 | Through nostrils she smelled the fear and the death in this wretched band more powerfully . |
| 19 | She plays the piano and sings and he 's her son . ’ |
| 20 | She plays the flute and her guitar very nicely , singing in several choir . |
| 21 | Although she had become a native of the boats , and pitied the tideless and ratless life of the Chelsea inhabitants , she respected the water and knew that one could die within sight of the Embankment . |
| 22 | She cries a lot and is not putting on weight . |
| 23 | She cries a lot and is not putting on weight . |
| 24 | She made a will and I understand she left her property to the two children of the marriage . |
| 25 | And she made a frill and she died them pink . |
| 26 | She made a face and turned away . |
| 27 | And they were tiny and we tied them in wee bunches and it was Miss who was the teacher then and she made a cross and put |
| 28 | She made a sound and suppressed it . |
| 29 | In the Seventies she made a come-back and played to full houses at the Institute of Contemporary Arts , re-coloured and with some discreet censorship . |
| 30 | At the second attempt she made the connection and heard the telephone begin to ring at the other end . |