Example sentences of "[art] [noun] that [verb] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she stepped over the threshold of Rose Cottage , the smell that met her was not that of her own living space . |
| 2 | It was the smell that alerted her and gave her that first sudden awareness of danger . |
| 3 | The invisibility that threatened her drove her to perform to attract attention , so she had done well at school , been picked for the hockey and the swimming teams . |
| 4 | She saw that look come into his eyes again — the look that told her so clearly how little she meant to him . |
| 5 | And the eyes that challenged her across he table were just brown eyes , filled with lazy amusement . |
| 6 | The secret of her approach was care in preparation , and woe betide the department that sent her into battle badly briefed or not briefed at all . |
| 7 | Then Kerry began to realise that she had found a strange kind of relief amid the disappointment that knocked her sideways when she first saw Panos . |
| 8 | His fingers bit deep into her shoulders , but the pain scarcely registered in comparison with the sensations that possessed her , the fire streaking through her whole nervous system . |
| 9 | The future was like the blackness that surrounded her , in which there were n't even shadows . |
| 10 | Ruth was used to feeling afraid in his presence ; but now the fear that touched her seemed more on his account than on her own . |
| 11 | The natural values of such materials were used , in the work of some of the artists , to stir memories of particular female tasks or events : the death of Emily Wilding , the suffragette , is evoked by Josephine Thom by a rose wreath made of lace and underwear , on a turf sod scored by the hoof marks of the horse that killed her . |
| 12 | She ran , fleeing the demons that pursued her , dragging in great gasps of cold air as if they were her last . |
| 13 | She withdrew , and Claudia opened the door , steeling herself to greet Roman without a trace of the emotion that made her want to run out of the flat , away from the two people she loved most and who were causing her so much pain that she wanted to die . |
| 14 | If we get caught up in the ice that means she 'll pop up like a cork when the pressure 's on . |
| 15 | Marion was sitting in the sun , her back to the hut that sheltered her from the cold wind . |
| 16 | And I 'll tell you something more : it would have been hidden up , as many another 's been , an' she would have been dumped somewhere , or found in the canal , but one of the lasses that found her had a screaming fit and ran out into the street , went barmy , they said , yelling , ‘ She 's hung herself ! |
| 17 | I pulled off the wires that joined her to my machine . |
| 18 | In a book written in jail , Bambi , 32 , is bitter about the law that landed her there . |
| 19 | The scene that greeted her at the top was already less frightening than it had been when Phoebe arrived . |
| 20 | The scene that confronted her was like a tableau from a waxworks , she thought with faint hysteria as she walked in . |
| 21 | She retched and failed , squeezed , tried again , tried desperately to choke out the stodge that blocked her . |
| 22 | I did n't want her to give herself over to the view of life that underlay all this , the philosophy that pinned her to the shadow-corners of the world . |
| 23 | This , the waste of it , fuelled in her the indignation that kept her going , filled her mind with the thoughts that justified everything she did : one day , it would be impossible that fine people like Philip would be misused , kept down , insulted by circumstances ; one day — and because of her , Alice , and her comrades things would be different . |
| 24 | Over the days that followed she and Ronni dutifully worked together for at least six hours a day . |
| 25 | In the weeks that followed she was besieged , chased , persuaded , listened to and written about , and when the Daily Mail had finished its serial she went back to being whatever she was before . |
| 26 | She felt as though she might burst with the joy that filled her . |
| 27 | The hill that faced her was bearded like a prophet with a wild white waterfall . |
| 28 | And there was something about him , an aura of confidence and power , as he stood there facing her across the bonnet of the Mini that told her that even if she 'd been driving a tank there was no way in the world he would have let her go past . |
| 29 | The compulsion that held her there , head resting against his broad shoulder , she knew was emotional rather than physical . |
| 30 | The role enables the researcher to gain the confidence of the group that accepts her in her false role . |