Example sentences of "[noun] she [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then at top speed she raced for the keeper 's cottage . |
| 2 | Then she stood up and without a backward glance she walked from the cafeteria . |
| 3 | Leonora straightened her shoulders , pale and vulnerable in the plain black sweater and skirt she wore in the shop . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But the Prime Minister may be more concerned to ward off the various demons she perceives on the horizon . |
| 6 | In the privacy of her bedroom she grimaced in the direction of the voice and made her way downstairs , taking her time , not caring if he went grey in the process of waiting for her . |
| 7 | On brisk steps she headed through the door to the conservatory . |
| 8 | In the full face of the ridicule she went to the post office evening after evening , ridicule she willed not to see or notice . |
| 9 | As she caught her breath , her temper erupted , and in wild self-defence she pushed against the steel wall of his chest , twisted frantically in his arms , her grey eyes sparking fire as she lifted her hand to hit out at him blindly . |
| 10 | As he turned back to his car she fled across the motorway . |
| 11 | The girls , as in her mind she thought of the Misses Cardings , had trimmed it with a deep tone of lime-green velvet ribbon and in the heart of the bow at the side they had placed two tiny red silk rosebuds . |
| 12 | In her mind she went over the transformation . |
| 13 | And with this in mind she returned to the reception desk to ask Stella if she could use the phone . |
| 14 | A quick glance at her watch showed that she would have time for a short walk outside before dinner , and with this in mind she sprang from the bed and raked a comb through her hair . |
| 15 | As she made the tea she thought about the way her brothers had talked about Mandy Watkins . |
| 16 | After making the tea she sat at the kitchen table to drink it , and was still sitting there when dawn broke . |
| 17 | ( Calle 's show also includes , in the gallery 's smaller room , the piece she did for the Carnegie International about the theft of Old Master paintings from Boston 's Gardner Museum . ) |
| 18 | They crossed M Street and kept going and in a doorway she snatched off the wig and beret and rammed them into the shoulder bag that had been expanded from the purse she had been carrying before . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In the last chapter she meditates on the meaning of suffering . |
| 21 | chapter she appeals to the reader , I know I came from etcetera , etcetera |
| 22 | The pictures she shot for the cinema were negligible compared to the pictures she shot for pure publicity . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Sweating with fear she wriggled through the hole , then ducked under the freight car and crawled slowly forward on her belly between the two sets of rails . |
| 25 | Knowing my shortcomings , Mum had taken charge of making curtains for George 's house and a week before the wedding she went to the market to find some fabric for the last pair . |
| 26 | He would go on sleeping badly , and opening people 's luggage , and given great luck he would even keep on living with Sam , though it was difficult to imagine that she would seriously consent to give up such a trophy , however little genuine pleasure she had from the child . |
| 27 | For the first few months she trembled at the thought of performing an official engagement on her own . |
| 28 | The couple had little in common , and her children died in infancy , one after another , a loss she attributed to the lead works Wright ran on their premises . |
| 29 | Using the trowel she chipped at the ground outside the door , prising cold earth from among the prickly stems and broken bricks , gathering it with her hands and putting it into the bucket . |
| 30 | Having adjusted the heat and thus satisfactorily disposed of the problem of lunch she went to the bathroom for a shower and then returned to the bedroom . |