Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Her feet found wings and suddenly she twinkled with the spirit of Fred Astaire . |
2 | Suddenly she came across the room , the night-shirt flapping round her long , brown legs , and seized his shoulder . |
3 | Suddenly she fell into the water . |
4 | Except suddenly she thought of the receptionist who would normally be at that desk . |
5 | Suddenly she rose from the post , some 250 feet from me , and with a dozen or so leisurely beats of her magnificent wings she was angling in to land on my glove and devour her prize ! |
6 | Suddenly she turned to the inspector , sipping her whisky . |
7 | Suddenly she leaned across the desk and kissed me quickly on the mouth . |
8 | For too long she gazed at the rain across the lake . |
9 | She did n't know how long she sat at the table , letting her coffee go cold . |
10 | When she too heard the clatter of the galloping horse far below she went to the window , but there was no longer anything to see and only the sound of the nursemaids chattering . |
11 | Perhaps she started from the feeling and then found a correspondence for it in the outside world . |
12 | She told the Obersturmfuhrer all she knew of the gang , and of her involvement . |
13 | The woman , who worked as a waitress in the sergeant 's mess , told Ingrid all she knew about the compound , and advised her to steer clear of the cookhouse . |
14 | So she started to cry and all then and said she said she was sorry , and right enough she stuck to the time that we allow her to , she 's come in last night dead on the button . |
15 | She liked Min and Jo and so she walked past the newsagents smiling , without noticing until she was almost at the next newsagents , which ran out of her newspaper by ten in the morning . |
16 | So she tapped on the window . |
17 | As she did so she glanced towards the entrance of A and E , checking automatically for Jim Harris 's car — except it would n't be there , she remembered with a twinge of regret . |
18 | So she wrote to the box number and suggested a date for a preliminary viewing to avoid disappointment or misunderstandings . |
19 | Nothing could take that from her , and so she clung to the memories . |
20 | So she kept to the woods , following the way Pedro had led , until she came at last to the clearing at the head of the ride . |
21 | So she lay on the floor and looked through the open door , into a beautiful garden with green trees and bright flowers . |
22 | So she lay on the floor in the shape of a cross , and prayed . |
23 | And so she got through the week , surviving mainly on humour and philosophy , but occasionally resorting to sarcasm with particularly obtuse patients . |
24 | So she made for the orchard first . |
25 | So she waited for the summons to the prince 's presence , and went with a demure step and a high heart when she was called at last . |
26 | The bedroom was on the same level as the terrace , the small sitting-room and the kitchen , and so she waited for the sound of another door or footsteps on the stone staircase down to the entrance hall . |
27 | So she went with the architect and he was wanting to show us this kind of and we were like , were cold and were back to the hotel , we did n't even go into the house . |
28 | So she went to the funeral service , and listened to the tributes — ‘ everyone thought he was the sun , the moon and the stars ’ . |
29 | So she went into the room , pushing through the foliage , and found the place where the woman 's corpse had rotted down . |
30 | So she dashed into the disrobing room behind the altar — and into another priest , Father Derek Laverty . |