Example sentences of "[prep] she [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | At first the information lack had been due to an instinctive veering away from the man who had caused her so much hurt and distress , but now it was more a matter of her rarely spending money on a paper and not having a television . |
2 | A Minister of the Crown told me once of being present at a Cabinet committee meeting when she disagreed with her then chancellor , Nigel Lawson , and sensed that the rest of those present were also against her . |
3 | Fiona disappeared in August 1989 while on a first wedding anniversary holiday in France with her then husband , Mark Jones , who has since remarried . |
4 | She knew that he had tried to give her the impression that he was going off on a promiscuous adventure and expected this to arouse in her both admiration and jealousy , but as Lydia 's misdemeanours were more of the spirit than of the flesh she found promiscuity not merely sinful but foolish and disgusting . |
5 | But Sams has admitted kidnapping Birmingham estate agent Stephanie Slater , unlawfully imprisoning her in January 1992 and demanding £175,000 with menaces from her then employer . |
6 | There she greatly admired Monsieur Jerricault 's canvas , which though static contained for her much motion and lighting and , in its own way , music — indeed , in some fashion it contained more of these things than did the vulgar Panorama . |
7 | But she likes everybody weight on her though finger . |
8 | No wonder Dr Vaughan had jeered at her maidenly modesty . |
9 | I said I had a damn good go at her yesterday afternoon ! |
10 | By rights Sue should be more adept at shop work because , after school and while waiting to go to RADA , she served in one of the hardware stores owned by her then businessman father , who became a Midlands MP and now sits in the House of Lords . |