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

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1 Perhaps she drifted off in the bath .
2 Wish all over home she fired back in the rapid , unpunctuated shorthand of spelling and sign , blinking through the thick lenses of her glasses .
3 Later she dug about in the fridge ; and although the result was depressing , she did find and consume two pots of yoghurt , a hunk of cheese and a slice of ham which had begun to curl up at its edges .
4 Maybe she slows down in the cold .
5 Alexandra would find her by the fire in the drawing-room in the afternoons , the Pekinese guarding her against invisible dangers , then she came down in the mornings and needed letters written , wools held .
6 Then she flopped down in the chair opposite .
7 And then she perked up in the evening , I think she wanted to play tennis and then she was alright Friday .
8 Then she sat down in the middle of the court .
9 Swiftly and almost silently she ran along in the darker shadows beneath the gable to the granary and from there to the dovecot .
10 Well she does and the hardest part , I think there is when she comes down in the morning and for five years he was there
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