Example sentences of "she [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her insistence seemed absurd in view of her own failed marriage , but I had always been too nervous to point this out , to ask what she made of the break in connection between the symbolism of the dress and the unassailability of the marriage vow . |
| 2 | And what did she think of the city ? |
| 3 | Had she heard of the clitoris ? |
| 4 | So I can show Donna and see what she thinks of the list ? |
| 5 | In Gwendolen she writes of the way a black woman like Sonia , Gwendolen 's mother , is treated , either with polite indifference or as if she is not there . |
| 6 | She writes of the hero : |
| 7 | Christian attorney Constance Cumbey goes a step further in The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow when she writes of the ‘ coming age of barbarism ’ , and describes the New Agers as a ‘ viable movement that truly meets the scriptural requirements for the Antichrist and the political movement that will bring him on the world scene ’ . |
| 8 | But I could n't agree more with Philippa Davenport when she writes of the formality that seems to have overtaken marriage celebrations , particularly in England ( page 47 ) . |
| 9 | She writes of the ‘ dark cities of the burdock ’ , and the way ‘ the scrubbed withdrawing room of the sea was strewn with swags of weed ’ . |
| 10 | She writes of the ‘ dark cities of the burdock ’ , and the way ‘ the scrubbed withdrawing room of the sea was strewn with swags of weed ’ . |
| 11 | Mary Warnock provides a scathing analysis of the government 's attitude to higher education when she writes of the contempt that the government has for universities and their staff : |
| 12 | Her hand tipped the scoop and the chips slid into the scale and when the dial registered much more than half an ounce she did n't remove any but , taking a paper bag , she blew into it , then , tipping up the scale , she disposed of the coconut chips before saying , ‘ I 'll be with you in a moment . ’ |
| 13 | She disapproved of the haphazard selection of foster parents ( she would have much preferred the children to go to hostels run on the lines of Bunce Court ) and , when the Movement pressed ahead anyway , she concentrated on plucking out from the crowd the children she identified as especially gifted and on salvaging those who had been packed off to unsuitable foster homes . |
| 14 | That , she knew full well , she could do nothing about , although she disapproved of the whole set-up . |
| 15 | It 's grown into a different shape over the years , ’ she says of the abundance of jugs , pebbles , paintings ( almost all done by members of the family ) , china , and even animal skulls , which jostle each other to form displays everywhere you look . |
| 16 | She says of the building societies : ‘ How dare they ignore the real needs of loyal customers by pursuing a marketing ploy which only benefits a few . |
| 17 | ‘ It would be nice to have it published , but even so , I have got a great sense of satisfaction from finding out things for myself , ’ she says of the volume , which includes 230 illustrations . |
| 18 | And then she told of the particularly treacherous winter that they had had to endure . |
| 19 | She told of the family 's ‘ sombre year ’ in the five-minute address which had already appeared in The Sun after the newspaper obtained a copy allegedly from a BBC employee . |
| 20 | She told of the one time when the weeping stopped . |
| 21 | When she complains of the drudgery of studying sound changes , Bernard hints that she does not really have what it takes to be a scholar . |
| 22 | She approved of the ‘ heavy merchant ’ who had replaced him with us . |
| 23 | She approved of the crispness of the linen coifs of nuns , the ironed cleanness of her mother 's Sunday gloves , the drift of long tulle skirts that had stirred about her on her First Communion day , the soft transparency of the veils of village brides . |
| 24 | Indeed , she comments of the story of Jacob at Jabbok , that the ‘ man ’ with whom he wrestles is deity ; and , of Jacob , on his ‘ refusing to let the man go unless he blesses him ’ . |
| 25 | Lady Macbeth provides Macbeth with the determination he requires when she hears of the witches prophesy and her husband 's title of ‘ Thane of Cawdor ’ , she immediately begins planning Duncan 's murder . |
| 26 | It may start with the first glimpse she gets of the man she is destined to love , or the man she believes wrongly that she is destined to love . |
| 27 | She had managed , nevertheless , to seize a few moments with the erstwhile companion when the gentlemen returned , for Araminta had at once gone over to greet Mr Saul Quatt , who had , at her request , presided over the service in the local church — much to the chagrin of its incumbent , whose ruffled feathers Mrs Alderley had been obliged to smooth when she heard of the plan from him . |
| 28 | FORMER nanny Karen Pattinson of Conwy did not hesitate when she heard of the plight of flood victims . |
| 29 | She could not communicate with their static sky-fires but she watched/felt/learned of the realities of Spiderglass on the Earth of a century before , back when industry meant manufacture or service and did n't encompass its environments or political power . |
| 30 | ‘ Now is n't this cosy , ’ she observed of the dank and barely furnished room , shadowed in the candlelight . |