Example sentences of "[noun pl] she [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On unsteady legs she walked towards the painting , seeing for the first time the mischievous face of a gremlin peeping out beneath the skirt of an old lady bent double , sweeping a woodland path . |
| 2 | But the Prime Minister may be more concerned to ward off the various demons she perceives on the horizon . |
| 3 | On brisk steps she headed through the door to the conservatory . |
| 4 | Mrs Stych snapped back that all the ladies present must be well aware of the multitude of offices she held in the charitable organizations of Tollemarche . |
| 5 | And it is true what your father says … when I think of what it was like after the War , and when I look around now — ’ suiting her actions to her words she looked around the café , at the ladies , old and frail , like herself , respectable in black and grey — ‘ these went through it too , ’ she said , ‘ and look at them , at us , coffee and cake on a Sunday morning . |
| 6 | The pictures she shot for the cinema were negligible compared to the pictures she shot for pure publicity . |
| 7 | Moira knew exactly what designs she needed in the shop and would tell Meirion to have two dozen of a particular style ready for delivery to the shop within two days at most . |
| 8 | For the first few months she trembled at the thought of performing an official engagement on her own . |
| 9 | She was in a perpetual process of readjustment , not only to tides and seasons , but to the rats she encountered on the wharf . |
| 10 | Nora enjoyed the undercurrents and tensions she felt in the light-seeming chatter all around . |
| 11 | The professional and personal uncertainties she suffers on the way up give heart to this novel , which is at its best exposing the machinations of editorial top brass . |
| 12 | With one of her fast movements she went into the passage . |
| 13 | When rights of conquest or hereditary rights had placed two or more territories under a medieval ruler , he was quite accustomed to finding that they were ruled under different constitutions and he would not think of trying to impose a uniform system of government on them ; Queen Elizabeth had rights and duties in England that were rather different from the rights and duties she had in the Channel Islands , which were all that was left of William the Conqueror 's Norman territories , and it was perfectly natural for each new English acquisition overseas to be won on terms that differed from what had happened previously . |
| 14 | All she had were some notes she made in the car , witnessed by Dexter . |
| 15 | They are literally the only possessions she has in the world : those two pictures , and the ring , her father 's ring . |
| 16 | The illustrations she produced for the book were based on copies of old master paintings . |
| 17 | The illustrations she produced for the book were based on copies of old master paintings . |
| 18 | Perhaps that was why she worked the hours she did in the most gruelling part of the hospital , picking up the pieces — literally , sometimes — and putting them back together if possible , consoling distraught relatives if not . |
| 19 | Alright old Goldilocks she stumbled across the house . |
| 20 | But then er in recent times she stay in the farm so |
| 21 | In those hard times she turned to the god in the village where she lived , and that god stood by her . |
| 22 | For a few minutes she knelt by the grave , and was presently joined by Maria . |
| 23 | Bad days she reached for the neck of the nearest bottle , never quite drunk , never quite sober , maundering on to Francis about the impossibility of love . |
| 24 | However , she never once attempted to nibble at her daily offering of oats in all the eight weeks she spent at the stud . |
| 25 | Her conscious understanding of how she was using language is clear from the explanations she gives for the expressions she uses in the poem : ( on line 2 ) " She lived outside in the open , so the air was like her house " ; ( on line 5 " the streets were like a giant shop where she could pick and choose out of bins and gutters " ; ( on line 8 ) " this means she was close to nature and she felt like the yew was her mother " . |
| 26 | For many years she appeared on the list of the world 's best-dressed women , and is a frequent visitor to London . |
| 27 | For the next thirty years she worked among the poor in Wapping , Rotherhithe , and Dublin , retiring in 1925 , at the age of seventy-nine , to her old home in Braintree , now a convent run by Franciscan nuns as an old people 's home . |
| 28 | In this article , I will demonstrate that O'Keeffe herself was instrumental in inspiring this new voice in the criticism ; that in response to the reviews she received on the occasion of her first major exhibition in New York in 1923 , she set about to persuade critics to define her and her art on her won terms . |
| 29 | Two more birdies coming home compensated for the bogeys she had at the fourteenth and sixteenth holes . |
| 30 | The diagonal constructions employed in the paintings she selected at the National Gallery and their use as a formal agent aiding and abetting the organisation of colour is what Riley emphasises and announces in her own work of this period . |