Example sentences of "[adj] she [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After this she returned to the house hoping against hope that in the interval her daughter might have returned , but there was no sign of her . |
| 2 | Her favourite line was Bernhardt 's , and this she copied into the front of each of the eighteen notebooks , at least the five of them that I still have ; Oh well , I 'll just buy the theatre . |
| 3 | And with this she went into the scullery , Mick following her . |
| 4 | This she draped over the line , pinning it with a row of clothes pegs . |
| 5 | This she confined to the pocket in her overall . |
| 6 | Liza laughed so much she rolled off the bed onto the chamber pot , spilling its contents on the floor . |
| 7 | Then she snatched a cigarette from a box , her hand shaking so much she laughed at the difficulty she had in lighting it . |
| 8 | When Sal stopped sobbing , I asked her how much she remembered about the accident . |
| 9 | She and her sister inherited the Treffry estates in Cornwall from their brother in 1779 , and after her husband 's death in 1786 she lived in the family home , Place , at Fowey . |
| 10 | It is certainly one of the ironies for Britain that the more thorough her privatisation programme in the 1980s ( including gas , electricity , air transport and telecommunications ) , the more disadvantaged she became in the argument for pan-European liberalisation of trade . |
| 11 | With that she went towards the kitchen . |
| 12 | With that she shuffled into the house . |
| 13 | Contrary to all expectations , ten minutes later she was seated at the washbasin , and forty minutes after that she emerged from the salon feeling refreshed and certainly different . |
| 14 | During the headmistress 's speech she had realized for the first time how little she knew of the world that lay beyond the school gates . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm glad she waited for the wedding to be over , ’ whispered Mrs Alderley in Theda 's ear , as she joined her by the French windows that had been opened to the terrace outside . |
| 16 | so she 's glad she went in the end ? |
| 17 | and she could n't realize how she come out in these she went to the doctor and he says well you must be allergic to summat |
| 18 | Contacted initially by Metzenbaum 's staff on Sept. 4 , Hill at first wanted to provide evidence anonymously , but on Sept. 21 she agreed to the suggestion of judiciary committee chairman Joseph Biden , Democratic senator for Delaware , that she provide a sworn affidavit to the Federal Bureau of Investigation which would examine her case . |
| 19 | As he intended to behave extraordinarily well , she would grow to like and respect him ( he was n't entirely sure she did at the moment ) . |
| 20 | Her mother suggested that Sophia marry the exiled Charles II , but he was not interested , and , her pride hurt , in 1650 she moved to the court of her eldest brother Karl Ludwig , now restored to Heidelberg . |
| 21 | Then , as if it had become suddenly tangible she sprang from the chair and threw out her arms as if pushing it aside and , her eyes wide now , she said aloud , ‘ I 'll have to do something . |
| 22 | At 18 she moved to the east coast to study music at the prestigious Berkeley College in Boston . |
| 23 | From 1976 to 1981 she worked at the Henley Centre for Forecasting , where she was responsible for UK economics forecasts , and manager of special studies . |
| 24 | Following her husband 's death in 1976 she served on the politburo from 1978 to 1985 , and remained an influential voice within the CCP even after her formal retirement from public life in 1988 . |
| 25 | One day , her greed was so extreme she bit into the hand itself . |
| 26 | During World War I she worked at the Admiralty on various projects of national importance , including the large-scale production of acetone from starch by fermentation . |
| 27 | In 1914 she resigned from the paper because of differences with her colleagues over the issue of war , and became a member of the executive committee of the Union of Democratic Control , founded by E. D. Morel [ q.v. ] to campaign against secret diplomacy . |
| 28 | At first she hovered in the farmyard , then she wandered over to the stables and sat on the outside steps up to Louis 's workroom . |
| 29 | The first she knew of the assault was a motion glimpsed from the corner of her eye : a blurred form approaching her at speed through the thickening sleet . |
| 30 | First she stopped at the coffee house to see if all was ready , then she stopped to speak to one of the servants . |