Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much that she fell on the first excuse to put some distance between them . |
| 2 | That was her style in the Falklands and it remained her style in a number of the confrontations that she faced over the next years . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's now a tradition that she comes for the last week of the campaign , ’ he says . |
| 4 | She suddenly wanted to throw something at him , anything , needing to hurt him as she was hurting , but could n't actually reach his ambitious heart , so she aimed for the next best thing : his self-respect . |
| 5 | Twice she was in the very act , loaded fork in her hand , when her breathing quickened , her mouth drew into a forbidding shiver of disgust , and she waited for the next signal to come round . |
| 6 | Marianne is 33 and she married for the third time two years ago . |
| 7 | Half an hour later , the book slipped out of her hand and she fell into the first of the night 's uneasy periods of slumber . |
| 8 | Even if she jumped on the next space shuttle to Mars it would n't make any difference . |
| 9 | Unless she died in the next few weeks — and why should she die ? — it could be the end of his life on the headland , the end of his organization , the end of all he had planned and hoped to do . |
| 10 | Her action against the school ( the first defendants ) failed but she recovered from the second defendants . |
| 11 | but , erm , she was hoping to come to the meeting this evening , but she phoned at the last minute and said she could n't make it , but erm , I do n't know if it would be more appropriate perhaps for the schools groups to get in touch with her and I |
| 12 | Miss Kingsley was a practical woman ; she had spent years housekeeping for her family and was thirty before she left on the first of her journeys to West Africa in 1893 , taking with her boots , blankets and a hot-water bottle . |
| 13 | When she got to the first landing , her mother 's bedroom door suddenly flew open and her mother burst out . |
| 14 | The young woman feels curiously as though she is only playing at house once more when she goes into the first flat or home that she can truly call her own . |
| 15 | When she attends for the first time , she assesses the patient : if he is out of bed and eating his breakfast , for instance , she observes whether he can feed himself , or whether he needs help ; whether he has perceptual problems ; how good his balance is while he is sitting ; whether he is limited by spasticity ; what his posture is like ; and then whether he is capable of standing and walking . |
| 16 | And when she came to the last name only the fact that she was already frozen saved her from betraying herself . |
| 17 | The thought had no sooner entered her mind when she tripped over the first slat of the drawbridge and fell to her knees before she could save herself . |
| 18 | When she cried in the first therapeutic session , he could not move over to comfort her and was surprised when the therapist drew attention to this strong communication which he had ignored . |
| 19 | ‘ Are you alone ? ’ asked Helen , when she phoned through the next afternoon to the College of Further Education staff common room during Greg 's free period . |
| 20 | Only when Bert Rafferty was called to give evidence did Harriet Tremayne show any sign of breaking down , as she listened for the first time to his description of exactly what had happened on that harrowing morning . |
| 21 | She was living with her boyfriend as she had for the last eight years and the hospital team were quite happy to talk to him about the proposed care plan for her . |
| 22 | Her hands were shaking as she reached for the first of the envelopes . |
| 23 | The barely acknowledged hope caused her heart to beat faster as she reached for the first round iron latch . |
| 24 | Speechless , she glared at him , then felt the colour start back to her cheeks as she realised for the first time what he was dressed in , which was very little indeed . |
| 25 | As she left for the first night party , she just had time to tell us what she thought : |
| 26 | She now rubbed her hand over the oilcloth as she waited for the next question . |
| 27 | And we started her off and she went round and as she went past the second time she said I ca n't stop ! |
| 28 | Her eyes widened as she came to the last paragraph , and she stared at it before abruptly crumpling the paper and stuffing it back into her case . |
| 29 | For a brief moment , as she battled with the last remaining shreds of her resistance , Lindsey could feel the thud of his heartbeat , then excitement exploded , heady and intoxicating , as her hands relaxed against the warmth of his chest . |