Example sentences of "[adv] she [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 If Eleanor Darcy can manage a private room in a prison , perhaps she manages one in the local pub as well ?
2 So she put them on the plate and she might want to work out what would three lots of two come to .
3 So she did it in the early morning before the Men came , or in the warm evenings when the Zoo gates were shut .
4 So she hit him on the face to make him prick his ears !
5 They rattled as she stalked , sometimes alarming her prey , and so she scattered them into the sand , to be ingested by the things that lived below the dunes .
6 So she helped them into the boat and they embraced one another .
7 Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground .
8 Gently she placed them in the carrier bag .
9 Gently she shook him by the shoulder , and his eyes opened .
10 Finally she shut herself in the attic room on Ella 's day off and sobbed until she ached in body and soul .
11 Outside she found herself at the top of a fire escape .
12 Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus .
13 Jo refused to discuss the Oscars ; the whole idea was too exciting to bear serious thought , and besides she knew something about the events of the next three and a half hours that her mother did not , and would not until her name was called .
14 Deliberately she looked him in the eye as she said it .
15 Numbly she followed him from the dance floor , barely even noticing when some of the dancers called out to her in passing .
16 I 'll bet she thinks that directly she lets me into the A.R.R.U. I 'll do a Charlie Peters !
17 Five minutes later she joined him in the Biography alcove .
18 So it was a short time later she found herself under the hard eyes of Sister Mary , the large nun she remembered from last night , and her very hard hand .
19 Twenty minutes later she found herself inside the Head 's office , white and trembling , so obviously terrified that the Head herself was taken aback .
20 Tenderly she laid it on the bed .
21 She did not see Joe for a few days and then one Friday as she walked past she saw him in the teashop and went in to join him .
22 It decided her ; instantly she followed it to the broad Danube .
23 Now she hears nothing but the sounds of her own house .
24 Now she hears nothing but the sounds of her own house .
25 Now she identified herself with the future , as freedom was breaking out everywhere , and Labour with the failed past .
26 Now she wears nothing but the same thing , and always .
27 Time and again she told herself she was fortunate to see the back of him , so often she reminded herself of the despicable way he had behaved .
28 Why do it now , why did n't she do it in the first place .
29 Why could n't she treat him with the same cool indifference as he showed her ?
30 If Portia Forbes wanted to consult them this morning why did n't she ask him before the funeral .
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