Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] [adv] on the " in BNC.

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1 So she pressed down on the button more firmly .
2 Still she sat there on the floor , sunk on her heels .
3 Several times in the night she had this bad dream and once she woke up on the floor .
4 Then she came back on the line and faithfully repeated everything I 'd told her , and everything I 'd asked .
5 She followed Martin and Clelia into the house , and drank , eventually , a large gin and tonic , and then she went home on the bus , and when she got home she was suddenly and violently sick .
6 Then she fell back on the turf and stared at the sky until she deemed it time to go home .
7 Then she fell back on the pillows .
8 Then she sat down on the bed , took off her hat and eased her patent leather pumps off her rapidly swelling feet .
9 Then she sat down on the floor , in the dark , green room among the birds .
10 McAllister took it round to her , at the point where she began again on the necessity of Dr Neil to rejoin polite society .
11 ‘ That 's where she fell down on the sidewalk , and cried and cried and cried … ’
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