Example sentences of "she [vb -s] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When one caller transgresses this line of demarcation , asking the presenter Dolores what she thinks of a terrorists ' kidnapping , she replies ‘ That would be a little outside the scope of this programme Charlie , there 'll be experts commenting again in the morning to tell you what to think of it , why do n't you talk to me about yourself … ’ ( 80 ) . |
| 2 | So I can show Donna and see what she thinks of the list ? |
| 3 | In Gwendolen she writes of the way a black woman like Sonia , Gwendolen 's mother , is treated , either with polite indifference or as if she is not there . |
| 4 | She writes of the hero : |
| 5 | Christian attorney Constance Cumbey goes a step further in The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow when she writes of the ‘ coming age of barbarism ’ , and describes the New Agers as a ‘ viable movement that truly meets the scriptural requirements for the Antichrist and the political movement that will bring him on the world scene ’ . |
| 6 | But I could n't agree more with Philippa Davenport when she writes of the formality that seems to have overtaken marriage celebrations , particularly in England ( page 47 ) . |
| 7 | She writes of the ‘ dark cities of the burdock ’ , and the way ‘ the scrubbed withdrawing room of the sea was strewn with swags of weed ’ . |
| 8 | She writes of the ‘ dark cities of the burdock ’ , and the way ‘ the scrubbed withdrawing room of the sea was strewn with swags of weed ’ . |
| 9 | Mary Warnock provides a scathing analysis of the government 's attitude to higher education when she writes of the contempt that the government has for universities and their staff : |
| 10 | It 's grown into a different shape over the years , ’ she says of the abundance of jugs , pebbles , paintings ( almost all done by members of the family ) , china , and even animal skulls , which jostle each other to form displays everywhere you look . |
| 11 | She says of the building societies : ‘ How dare they ignore the real needs of loyal customers by pursuing a marketing ploy which only benefits a few . |
| 12 | ‘ It would be nice to have it published , but even so , I have got a great sense of satisfaction from finding out things for myself , ’ she says of the volume , which includes 230 illustrations . |
| 13 | When she complains of the drudgery of studying sound changes , Bernard hints that she does not really have what it takes to be a scholar . |
| 14 | Indeed , she comments of the story of Jacob at Jabbok , that the ‘ man ’ with whom he wrestles is deity ; and , of Jacob , on his ‘ refusing to let the man go unless he blesses him ’ . |
| 15 | She disapproves of a great deal of Charles 's life , these days ; she thinks his ambitions misplaced , his goals suspect , his methods dangerous , his new political alignments deplorable : but she is loyal to Charles , to Charles himself , to the man that these manifestations in her view misrepresent . |
| 16 | Lady Macbeth provides Macbeth with the determination he requires when she hears of the witches prophesy and her husband 's title of ‘ Thane of Cawdor ’ , she immediately begins planning Duncan 's murder . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And what mother of young children , whether she owns a family pet or not , has not felt even more frightened of neighbourhood Rottweilers and Dobermans when she reads of the horrific savaging and killing of children by uncontrollable animals ? |
| 19 | In Lady Wilde 's tale November Eve ( from Ancient Legends , Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland ) , she tells of a lad who was lured to a fairy revel where he met Finvarra and Oonagh . |
| 20 | She tells of the struggle between the administrators in Washington and the scientists in the laboratories . |
| 21 | She speaks of the change that took place in Eva 's life at her conversion . |
| 22 | Facing a field which contains Britain 's golden girl Liz McColgan , Ethiopia 's Olympic 10,000m champion Derartu Tulu and her brilliant South African compatriot Elana Meyer , she talks of a top 10 finish , but adds with a smile : ‘ There 's always that possibility of winning . ’ |
| 23 | The next example is an account of a teacher 's observation of children at play whereby she learns of the children 's own discoveries as they experiment for themselves . |
| 24 | It is her whole situation — she is so mournful and silently accusing and sometimes , Robert , I think her as mad as Landor with all this nonsense she makes of the Bible from time to time . |