Example sentences of "she of [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole route was lined by men of the Cent-Gardes , whose immobility was such that according to one guest ‘ they might have been statues ’ , but she felt unable to study them in detail , so terrified was she of slipping on the highly polished parquet that her whole mind was fixed on arriving safely at the dining room . |
| 2 | Would n't she of done better to take erm a six month 's course in secretarial skills ? |
| 3 | All he had done was scream abuse at her , accusing her of bringing shame and disgrace on the family . |
| 4 | Occasionally , Mr Landor would accuse her of stealing from him when he had mislaid a silver spoon or could not find a precious paperknife , but she had always treated these accusations with the contempt they deserved . |
| 5 | ‘ Although I suppose he might suspect her of fancying me ! |
| 6 | The 61-year-old judge was kinder to sex party hostess Cynthia Paine after a jury cleared her of controlling prostitutes five years ago . |
| 7 | At first , he suspected her of trying to curry favour by pandering to his lust , but later came to the conclusion that it was genuine parental pride . |
| 8 | Added to which was the emotional harassment of fellow priest Laverty whose idea of support was to visit and then accuse her of trying to wreck the life of a good priest . |
| 9 | Guntram even accused her of wanting to marry one of them ; a suggestion which Gregory found preposterous . |
| 10 | It proved a disastrous union — ‘ Salo ’ , the inferior player , became brutally jealous of his wife 's game , and accused her of flirting with whomever she happened to be playing . |
| 11 | He accused her of smoking it in Marshall 's cottage . |
| 12 | He then accused her of sending him hate mail , photos of dismembered animals and putting a mutilated doll outside his home . |
| 13 | He accused her of planting the cannabis . |
| 14 | The government on Sept. 18 filed corruption charges against Marcos , accusing her of coercing Central Bank officials into lending US$25,000,000 to a company in which her family had shares . |
| 15 | Yet , the original idea having come from her mother , she had been able to heap all the blame on her , even to accusing her of using up her inheritance , and continually complaining of the ‘ pittance ’ that she must herself have laid down in the terms of the letter she had written , purporting to come from Lady Merchiston . |
| 16 | Well , at least no one could accuse her of dressing provacatively — it was hardly an outfit that would knock anyone 's eyes out . |
| 17 | In fact she almost expected them to accuse her of causing the conscience-prodding dip into their pockets . |
| 18 | Germaine Greer accuses her of developing her artistic personalities as an end in itself . |
| 19 | I think that , without convicting her of telling taradiddles to improve her genealogy , we may well suspect her of having allowed Kay to mislead herself . |
| 20 | In a terse , hand-delivered note to Diana , the Duke of Edinburgh accused her of betraying the Royal Family . |
| 21 | She recalled his expression as he had accused her of knowing where Garry was , and she knew he was n't the kind of man to give up easily . |
| 22 | Next month she will have been locked up for 4 years without being charged or tried , while an examining magistrate struggles to assemble enough evidence to convict her of murdering first her husband and then her boyfriend . |
| 23 | Well , but the child had been good and she would not deprive her of saying to her friends on Monday ‘ I went to the fair ’ . |
| 24 | He accuses her of changing her story ; he challenges her transcript of the interview , asks about an apparent change in her typewriter typeface , about her practice of reusing tapes . |
| 25 | Everyone in the playground was staring at her , and any minute now Miss Hardbroom ( Mildred 's terrifying form-mistress from the previous year ) was bound to appear and accuse her of upsetting a poor new girl . |
| 26 | ‘ Boats and women , ’ he said in a voice that reminded her of melting dark chocolate . |
| 27 | She would behave like someone who was n't being unfaithful , and nobody could accuse her of behaving like that . |
| 28 | Colour flooded her cheeks as she realised he was accusing her of posing and denying he had had anything to do with it . |
| 29 | Rebecca was accusing her of starting the fire , and he was doing nothing to dispute the idea . |
| 30 | They took her to her stall in the market , demanding she handed over the arms and propaganda they accused her of storing there . |