Example sentences of "[noun sg] she " in BNC.

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1 JC : Of course , in Crabbe 's The Borough she is blind .
2 Then at top speed she raced for the keeper 's cottage .
3 The ships had some 10 miles to go ; the MLs had used their extra fuel and filled the spare tanks with seawater as they stole into the estuary in two columns , headed by MGB 314 : These motorboats are difficult to handle at slow speed and Campbeltown was sluggish , but at speed she drew an extra foot aft and every inch counted as she came towards the mud .
4 He summoned the waiter and , with the speed she was getting used to , paid the bill , and they left the restaurant , his hand on her arm .
5 When the dragon had flighted across the market place of Antioch , and Margaret had found herself swept up between the huge teeth , she had laughed like a child at the brief glance she had had of the panic around her ; she had laughed from the pure unexpectedness of her escape and at the terrified way the mighty Olybrius had nearly swallowed his moustaches .
6 The glance she threw Thiercelin carried the strong implication that she preferred the more mature type of man .
7 Without a backward glance she walked slowly towards his table .
8 Without so much as a backward glance she left the room , indignation clear in the rigidity of her spine as his mocking laugh rang out behind her .
9 After one more anxious glance she took off for the other end of the pool and a quick look showed that he was already on his way , moving with powerful strokes and keeping well clear of her .
10 She withdrew immediately , retreating into her corner of the bench , her face expressionless but for the suspicious sidelong glance she sent him .
11 Without a word or a glance she ran off , shouting , ‘ Oliver , Oliver , ’ in a high , affected voice .
12 The veiled glance she sent Silas also swept Lucy , taking on a glitter of warning as it did so .
13 Then she stood up and without a backward glance she walked from the cafeteria .
14 The glance she sent her cousin was slyly mocking .
15 For all the days before her visit to the mikva she is nidda , or set apart , and she and her husband must not even touch .
16 As his eager hands began to explore her nakedness she suddenly clamped her arms around him like a drowning man .
17 Suddenly from the instrument she heard his voice .
18 She swept her sodden hair back from her face thinking she must look a proper sight .
19 Maggie glanced over at the punch bowl thinking she would n't mind some .
20 ‘ It 's no good thinking she 's going to come because she 's not , ’ called out Kraal from his shelter between bites at his new food .
21 She did n't want Roman thinking she was angling for sympathy .
22 She could n't take any more of Naylor 's aggression , of Naylor looking at her with such dislike , of Naylor thinking she was anybody 's .
23 At 18 , she decides after her affair with the French teacher that outwardly she is a girl , she looks like a girl , and she ca n't go through life thinking she 's a boy .
24 Thinking she got honours .
25 erm , because she 's , she 's quite big for her age , but like Louise she 's quite tall now , she 's nearly too tall for him even though there 's nothing of her she must only be about seven stone , erm , but this little Vicky she 's oh thinking she 's really good now and she 's improved so much and getting confident as well , and the dad takes in , he puts the bridle on him , he takes the dog in one hand and Min in the other he goes for walks for miles with the , with the horse and the dog Dave does
26 That mean she could no longer counter-sign company cheques .
27 Jo 's lesbianism is also important to the way she dresses ; she does n't want to look what she calls ‘ too femme ’ , and says that when she wears a skirt she gets a lot more hassle from men .
28 One of them , a leather skirt she made for Dannii , still occupies pride of place in her little sister 's wardrobe .
29 She was in the middle of wringing the water out of a red rayon skirt she had been washing at the kitchen sink .
30 While fashion magazines announce that longer skirts are in style , the princess has again appeared in the multi-coloured striped skirt she has been wearing for more than a year .
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