Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun pl] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Welfare Officer drove back through the camp gates she was greeted by the smell of a well-smouldering barbecue and the news that the Greenfinch rounders team had lost heavily in a tournament at RAF AIdergrove . |
| 2 | It began as a faint glowing cloudiness that hung in the rafters of the attic , which was exactly the sort of phenomenon Cleo 's mother had described in the ghost stories she 'd told her daughter as a child . |
| 3 | She still likes pop music , especially the singers and groups she grew up with , like Neil Diamond , Dire Straits and Duran Duran , and thoroughly enjoys the rock concerts she attends , but she now finds classical music more soothing to read and work to . |
| 4 | The study skills she had learnt were certainly of value — six weeks before she went on her first overseas assignment her company put her through a crash course in Greek ! |
| 5 | Would Gay like the bedroom slippers she had sent her for Christmas ? |
| 6 | It floated down to the threadbare navy-blue carpet , some settling on the bedroom slippers she wore . |
| 7 | She stepped out herself then , hoping to get nearer ; she would like to see what he was doing to her , for she had no clear idea , in spite of the expert descriptions she provided for Cati in their vigils . |
| 8 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 9 | In satirical sketches of the Scholar , the Country Squire , the Beau , the Virtuoso , the Poet , and the Coffee-house Politicians she revealed the weaknesses of men . |
| 10 | In the mornings , for instance , after finishing the household chores she might go shopping , and then have lunch with friends . |
| 11 | Over the winter months she will continue to train in a bid to ensure that her second visit to the British Championships next year will yield a medal of a different colour . |
| 12 | In years she was senior to everyone including the infrequently seen Charlie ; as mother hen to the dancing girls she 'd taken Lucy in and allowed her to feel at home in a matter of hours . |
| 13 | She settled herself beside him at the bench and took up the satin slippers she was decorating for Meg . |
| 14 | As she strolled past the shop windows she ran her fingers through the short layered style that the hairdresser had said was made for her , and felt like someone else . |
| 15 | We feel Betty Willis may well be a record-breaker with the super-size socks she made for her super-size son-in-law whose super-loud voice gave him fifth place ( out of 100 contestants ) in the 1991 world championships for Town Criers . |
| 16 | She may welcome your help with some of the business matters she has to deal with , too . |
| 17 | Her wardrobes of course , were bulging with dresses but , apart from the evening gowns she had had made especially for Christmas , they had all been worn at least once before . |
| 18 | She rebuked herself for her timidity , for her first dismay that he had not shown more of the lover 's courtesies she had imagined from the fairy tales she told herself ; he had been too eager , obviously . |
| 19 | Adam had viewed with near-incredulity his mother 's preparations in the past for going on holiday , the way everything in the house seemed to get washed , the way she and his father wore their worst clothes for days beforehand because the best ones were packed , the phone calls she made , the notes she left for tradesmen . |
| 20 | Again and again in the night hours she thought of him , of his aggression and of the barely veiled hint in his parting shot ‘ so long as it does n't interfere with your work ! ’ that for all she had , so far , gone along with everything he had decreed , she could still find herself out of a job if she did n't toe the line . |
| 21 | She tried not to think of her overdrawn bank account and the credit cards she must n't use . |
| 22 | In the opening pages she interpolates a radio play called ‘ A Round of Silence ’ by Perry Hupsos ( a character she invented as a radio presenter in Amalgamemnon ( 74 ) out of the title Peri Hypsos ( Longinus 's On the Sublime ) ) . |
| 23 | Their colours and patterns seemed as fresh as the day they were made and she was amazed at their richness compared with the wartime materials she was used to . |
| 24 | Here were the Hepplewhite chairs and the Pembroke table , coveted by Mervyn Cantrell , portraits of her grandparents and of her father in cope and biretta , the comer cupboard with the lustre jugs collected by her mother , the old silky Bokhara rugs on the polished parquet floor of the sitting room , the familiar books in the white-painted bookshelves , and the china ornaments she remembered from childhood . |
| 25 | Normally she would have screamed at him for the minute splinters she knew he must be creating , but now she kept her anger for other matters . |
| 26 | What pleased her enormously was that over these garments Tina actually wore one of the patchwork aprons she had made and given her years before , with little hope of their ever being used . |
| 27 | It was threaded in such a way as to twirl and twist hand-spun wool into a twisted string which would then be used for the saddle bags she made . |
| 28 | Jessamyn lay flat on the contoured table as the Doc sliced away the facial bandages , still relaxed from the morph-plus shots she had been taking every day . |
| 29 | She carried them on to the terrace in front of the house , and sat down , intending to read one of the paperback books she 'd brought with her until the light faded . |
| 30 | From the Wilton Weavers she was given a camera as a leaving present and from the Winding Department and the Spool Setters she received a generous gift of cash to which everyone had contributed . |