Example sentences of "[verb] she [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I helped her keep up the house . |
2 | In a great gesture of trust , Josie let her switch off the lights unsupervised . |
3 | The girl who was dressing her pulled up the zipper while Paula kicked off a pair of black suede shoes and eased her feet into crocodile ones . |
4 | She could n't think what had made her blurt out the goading words . |
5 | ‘ They 're aw' the same , ’ Isa lifted her knitting out the carrier together with a badly printed pattern clipped from a copy of The People 's Friend that she had found on the train to Wemyss Bay . |
6 | They took her to her stall in the market , demanding she handed over the arms and propaganda they accused her of storing there . |
7 | Too often she had seen her mother frowning with anxiety as she divided the contents of her father 's wage packet up between the jars labelled ‘ Rent ’ and ‘ Electric ’ and ‘ Coal Money ’ , too often at the end of the week she had watched her count out the pennies for a pound of sausages only to be able to buy just a half-pound , two for her father , one each for Paula and Sally , and only the scrapings of the pan to go with her own potatoes . |
8 | I always remember 'er walkin' up the turnin' wiv 'er 'ead 'eld up . |
9 | ‘ You know she carried on the business alone when her father died , got guts has that girl . ’ |
10 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
11 | This is done as follows : If the number ‘ one ’ is called she spells out the letters O N E to land on the yellow smartie . |
12 | The apartment 's previous owners had hired an expensive interior designer from New York and ordered her to trick out the rooms in a horse-country olde-English Spy-Cartoons look , which had been done to extravagant perfection , but McIllvanney was none of those things . |
13 | Tweed , who had refused to let her take over the wheel , appeared outwardly to be perfectly relaxed as he stopped and presented the passport in the name of William Sanders . |
14 | They heard her go down the passage , then the disagreement about telephoning the police was renewed . |
15 | When the horn was robed she threaded back the leather of the necklace and gave it to Dreamer , who put it round his neck and tucked this frail memory of the broken boy into his furs . |
16 | I did n't expect to see her coming out the side door like that . ’ |
17 | For some reason , he did n't want her to check out the vault . |
18 | But a perverse urge to take advantage of his rare willingness to be seen out with her made her bite back the words , and she went off to discard her shorts in favour of a slim straight dress , the fine cotton-knit a subtle sage green . |
19 | It was these that made her carry on the conversation . |
20 | Once in , it seemed nothing , absolutely nothing , could make her give up the job she loved . |
21 | When the headmistress , with some guilt , asked her to take over the school 's unpopular Commonwealth Society she rolled up her sleeves and cleaned out the dusty room that had been hung with torn posters depicting ‘ Tea-picking in Ceylon , ‘ Coffee Growing in Kenya , ’ and ‘ Sheep Farming in Australia . ’ |
22 | This almost welcoming message kept her going down the raccordo to Siena . |
23 | When , in well-cut white satin and glycerine tears , she sobbed , Oh but Daddy I do love him , I do love him , he still tried to reason with her ; but then when he saw her hitching up the satin and running across the lawn , throwing off the veil , scattering the astonished wedding guests as she ran , and when he saw her jumping into a truck , not caring that she was getting petrol stains all over her broderie anglaise , jumping into a truck and not with the man they all expected her to love , but with the one she really loves , and then driving off with him in a cheap pickup truck to a motel in Wisconsin , shouting out , Goodbye Father , Goodbye Father ! as she goes ; well when he saw her doing that then Boy could not bring himself to disapprove . |
24 | Afterwards he took her to pick up the ring . |
25 | ‘ I might tell you I persuaded her to cut down the list Buckmaster had drawn up of people to be informed . |
26 | I well remember hearing her stamping up the hall one afternoon shouting , ‘ I hate the bloody lot of you . |
27 | Although the Empress submitted momentarily , divisions within the nobility enabled her to tear up the councillors ' terms . |
28 | With that thought , once Peter had left she switched out the bedside lamp and burrowed down . |
29 | Now that she knew Betty was here because she pitied her and not because she liked her , she felt less threatened and decided that she would just let her take over the cooking and do as she wished in the kitchen . |
30 | Without thinking she snatched up the phone again and quickly tapped out the apartment number . |