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She and had
She had reached a point at which
she didn't even
care how
she looked
.
She stared at him
, her eyes wide as
she thought
about what he
had said ; ;
She had helped him change his mind
.
She said
, and
her tone
had softened
until it was almost friendly
.
She had picked up
the quirt and was twirling it around
her wrist and smiling at him
.
She seemed
to have come such a long distance -- too far for
her destination which
had wilfully been swallowed up in
the greedy gloom
of the trees
.
She had the feeling that
, under
the mouldering leaves
, there
would be the bodies
of dead animals
, quietly decaying and giving their soil back
to the mountain
.
She had to get away from here before this demoniac possession swallowed up
the liquid
of her eyes and sank into
the fibers
of her brain
, depriving
her of reason and sight
.
She had been snared here by a vile sensuality that writhed around
her throat in ever-tightening circles
.
She had to escape
.
She had to move in some direction -- any direction that
would take
her away from this evil place
.
She wondered what
had taken place in town
, between him and his wife
.
She had spent too many hours looking ahead
, hoping and longing
to catch even a glimpse
of Dan and finding nothing
but emptiness
.
She had arrived this morning and come straight
to the English Gardens
.
She had retreated
to this world
.
She had touched
her face
, truly a noble and pure face
, only with a lip salve which made
her lips glisten
but no redder than usual
.
She had hated
the whole idea before they started
.
She had jumped away from his shy touch like a cat confronted by a sidewinder
.
She had driven up with
her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates
, although
the two drivers
knew nothing at
the moment
about that
.
She might have been someone he
had once loved
.
She began
to watch a blonde-haired man
, also in shorts
, standing right at
the rear
of the wrecked car in
the one spot that most
of the crowd
had detoured slightly
.
She was sitting on
the edge
of the bed again
, back in
the same position where
the snake
had found
her.
She had the opportunity that few clever women can resist
, of showing
her superiority in argument over a man
.
She and offered
She jumped as
the little man now appeared at
the window and
, reaching through
the opening
, offered her a bottle
of coke
.
She then studied for two years with
the painter Francis Adolf Van der Wielen
, who offered lessons in perspective and drawing from casts during
the time that
the new Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts was under construction
.
She was
offered the role
of Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives
, but declined
.
She claimed
she was
offered two highly sought-after movie roles:
the part
of possessed
child Regan MacNeil in
the 1973 film
, The Exorcist
, and
the starring role in Louis Malle's 1978 film
, Pretty Baby
.

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She was
offered the chance
to compose
the score for James Cameron's 1997 feature film Titanic
, but she declined
.
She proposed an alliance
, something which
she had refused
to do when
offered one by Feodor's father
, but was turned down
.
She offered very limited aid
to foreign Protestants and failed
to provide
her commanders with
the funds
to make a difference abroad
.
She then
offered him
the remaining books
, but at
the same price
.
She awakened
, he identified himself and
offered her two choices:
she could submit
to his sexual advances and become his wife and future queen
, or he
would kill
her and one
of her slaves and place
the bodies together
, then claim he
had caught
her having adulterous sex ( see sexuality in ancient Rome for Roman attitudes toward sex ).
She even goes on
to state that Lady Nancy Astor ' even
offered all
her sapphires if he
would stay on in England '.
She also
offered her home as a shelter for an immigrant family from
the Democratic Republic
of the Congo
.
She was also
offered the first and last libations
of wine at feasts
.
She was also
offered a spot as a featured player on Saturday Night Live
, but turned it down
to do Friends
.
She was a Romanian immigrant threatened with deportation for " low moral character " and
offered the federal agency information on Dillinger in exchange for their help in preventing
her deportation
.

When Moessinger was hired as executive producer for Murder
, She Wrote
, he
offered Straczynski a job as co-producer
.

"
She was
offered a standard contract by MGM
, and left school for Hollywood in 1941 with
her sister Bappie accompanying
her.
She had little intention
of staying there
, and briefly returned
to Canberra in May 1983
, before being
offered a job in Sydney
.
She was
offered the lead role
of Sandy after meeting producer Allan Carr at a dinner party at Helen Reddy's home
.
She sparked
the interest
of Steven Spielberg
, who offered her several parts including a role in Jurassic Park which
she declined
, choosing instead
to join Krzysztof Kieślowski on
the set
of Three Colors: Blue ( 1993 ), a performance for which
she won
the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actress and a César
.
She, alongside
her contemporaries "
offered viable creative
, intellectual
, and business paths for establishing and maintaining agency
, lyrical potency
, marketing and ownership
.
She insisted on hiring
her own cameraman
, and
offered to waive
her salary if
the film went over budget as a result
.
She was
offered films in Hollywood
, but turned them down and continued
to work in France and England
.

"
She offered the headmaster 50 roubles
to let him attend
, which he accepted
.
She offered to help raise funds for VVAW
, and
, for
her efforts
, was rewarded with
the title
of Honorary National Coordinator
.
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