Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] she " in BNC.
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| 31 | In Joan 's case , this is one of the few phonological adaptations which she makes . |
| 32 | The excitement that was building up inside her had nothing to do with the fact that Ace Barton was probably just a few feet away from her , she told herself as she tried desperately hard to try and disentangle from the different voices one she hoped to recognise . |
| 33 | But she could not express in words what she saw in her head . |
| 34 | Ruth took a deep breath and summoned all her courage to put into words what she had decided after her sleepless night at Mrs Taylor 's . |
| 35 | She tried to raise her head , wanting to see in his eyes what she was feeling in his embrace , but Guy cupped her cheek , holding her still against his chest . |
| 36 | just think it 's heights of bad manners what she 's done ! |
| 37 | Britain has been particularly fortunate in acquiring the sorts of institutions which she did acquire . |
| 38 | The intensity of Käthè Kollwitz ‘ representations of the poor , the grieving , and the anger has rendered problematic the interpretation of the objects which she produced and of the subjects under her scrutiny . |
| 39 | With noble , fine-boned features that have brought comparisons with Audrey Hepburn , she could have gone to Hollywood but has chosen British projects which she feels mean something — though she has routinely worked for the mere promise of a salary at some future point when the films make money . |
| 40 | It is the finale of two of the recruit courses : the Regular recruits have spent eight weeks at the WRAC Centre completing an intensive course which provides a young woman with all the basic military skills Which she will require to be able to take her place alongside her male counterpart in the modern British Army . |
| 41 | Hi Jinks had an awesome range of martial skills which she practiced on small children . |
| 42 | She went to lessons in drawing , ice-skating , junior aerobics and many other skills which she had absolutely no hope of acquiring . |
| 43 | As a result , she had been able to put away a few shillings every week , and over these past three years the shillings had mounted until now the bag of coins which she kept hidden under the bedroom floorboards had swollen to a tidy sum . |
| 44 | Add rush matting , yellow and white gingham curtains , and watercolours of fruit and vegetables which she had done herself , and the kitchen was rustically cosy . |
| 45 | This partly explains her choice of the middle-aged widower as a husband , since he was the recipient of political secrets which she shared . |
| 46 | As we passed Number 110 , I spotted Mrs Shorrocks staring at me out of the window , sporting her usual black eye and a mass of different coloured bruises which she collected from Bert most Saturday nights . |
| 47 | Jane saw her degree as a process of narrowing down , rather than a broadening out ; it shut out the creative , ‘ qualitative ’ aspect of her nature , and presented her with a set of rules and definitions which she had to conform to , or reject , but which she could not challenge . |
| 48 | ‘ No , ’ she had said , with her usual fiery spirit still dominant , even after the long and tiring hours which she had worked with him . |
| 49 | She took out her wallet and found that she had six pounds and ten shillings which she placed on the chair by his bed ; ‘ Will that be enough to be going on with ? ’ she asked . |
| 50 | The fog had lifted , and she showed us the sticks which she and her husband had put in to mark the way . |
| 51 | She wanted to see the palm houses which she had heard the Sheikh had built . |
| 52 | Attitudes which she believes contributed to its length . |
| 53 | For the educated mother in particular , it took a great deal of courage to reject a system of upbringing which combined quasi-religious appeals to ‘ duty ’ and ‘ rightness ’ and ‘ goodness ’ with a claim to be based on the rational attitudes which she herself , as a ‘ modern ’ woman , was supposed to have embraced . |
| 54 | It is not covered by the rules which she has been taught . |
| 55 | But her own internal stresses — her anxiety over Between the Acts which she had just finished , and the fear that she had lost the power to write — closed in on her as that unmitigable depression , her companion of old , took final hold . |
| 56 | In 1900 she married Stephen Townesend , a young doctor with stage aspirations whom she had tried to help . |
| 57 | In 1865 Octavia Hill gave the realists further impetus when , with Ruskin 's help , she bought slum dwellings at Paradise Place to which she acted as manager , visiting the tenants frequently , in part to collect the rents which she spent on improvements . |
| 58 | Another correspondent asked for cheap tracts which she could distribute to the poor as the middle class were already knowledgeable . |
| 59 | A woman in her eighties was plagued by hallucinations of loud machinery noises coming from her neighbours ' houses , noises which she believed were deliberately made to disrupt her sleep . |
| 60 | Twenty years on , the phrases which she saw as indicating a deformation of values have become commonplace in the Thatcherite academy , where contemplation is regarded as idleness , rather than the other way round , and Leavis 's abominated ‘ technologico-Benthamism ’ is firmly in the saddle . |