Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | A young ‘ chic ’ girl placed herself in his empty place , fixing her eye liner in the fake sun light of the train , sighed as she looked around the carriage and then smiled to herself , there was obviously no competition so she failed to add an extra layer of lip-stick . |
| 2 | She was dismayed to see these strangers accosting her when she expected to see an old man in a cowboy hat with a black and white photograph face . |
| 3 | ( 58 ) Mrs Thatcher realizes that there is a great deal to be done before she dares launch an all-out offensive in the House of Commons . |
| 4 | She agreed to have an adoption to keep the peace with her mother . |
| 5 | In 1915 she helped to organize an international women 's peace conference at The Hague , and until 1922 she acted as treasurer to the Women 's International League . |
| 6 | ‘ She wants to become an international model . |
| 7 | Everyone else has gone home , except the poor wretches who are spending the hols at school , and we three are independent citizens whom she invited to spend an extra day . |
| 8 | She deliberately relaxed her limbs , looking steadily out of the open window , inhaling deeply as she tried to pinpoint an elusive scent . |
| 9 | She tried to control an urge to pull at the ropes of jewels , coils of bracelets , the heavy tiara pressing into her scalp . |
| 10 | Later she tried to make an oven out of an iron safe , but it did not work . |
| 11 | Oxford Crown Court 's been hearing how a British Airways stewardess from Thame was threatened with death when she tried to end an affair with her boyfriend . |
| 12 | He was caught when she tried to pay an 80p supermarket bill with a forged £20 note . |
| 13 | For once , you do n't want Eliza to settle down with Higgins — she has achieved an emotional maturity he will never be able to match . |
| 14 | But she is still the same MP ; I do n't think she has moved an inch . ’ |
| 15 | She has played an active part in the sixth form committee , displaying remarkable skills in organising and motivating others . |
| 16 | ( If she has suffered an electric shock , push her away from the electric equipment with a broom handle before touching her , or by turning off the electricity mains . ) |
| 17 | She has to wear an artificial arm and mask to protect the skin on her face . |
| 18 | And , remarkably , she has formed an affectionate bond with Rosa Hannah 's much loved senior cow , which for part of the year returns to her old pastures because Bill Purves , the neighbour who cares for Rosa rents the grazing from the new owners . |
| 19 | She can only equip herself to face the world from a secure position when she has developed an internal strength which will come from the accumulation of power by centres of growth which lie far outside the existing bureaucracies of government , party and presidential palace . |
| 20 | She has faced an unusual problem , however , in trying to get a licence to trade as a recruitment broker . |
| 21 | Using contrary approaches — by examining the work of popularisers such as T. H. Huxley and John Tyndall , and by looking beyond the superficial , anti-scientific statements of imaginative writers — she has revealed an intellectual and emotional agreement far closer than we have been led to believe . |
| 22 | She has made an art form out of dodging classification . |
| 23 | I do not know of that detailed work , but she has made an interesting comment on the position in the United States . |
| 24 | It is as if she has to create an impervious beauty , a mask to conceal the painfully damaged body beneath the clothes , just as her lips are always closed in these photographs to conceal her decayed teeth . |
| 25 | She has made him more of an Expressionist than he really was but she has realised an essential truth : that Heartbreak House is a deeply poetic play about the death of liberal hopes and the cracking-apart of a civilisation . |
| 26 | Though Ruby 's brain weight is only 400 grams , about a third that of a modern human 's , she has proved an apt pupil and now understands and uses a vocabulary of about a thousand words . |
| 27 | She is terrified of flying … so much so that often she has to fight an inner turmoil even to step on the plane . |
| 28 | She has misinterpreted an indirect quote from evidence given on behalf of the health authority as a statement of fact by me . |
| 29 | ( She also does all the lovely flower arrangements for which she has won an award . ) |
| 30 | She has demanded an explanation from Mr Lamont who was ‘ too busy ’ to attend the function . |