Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] [pron] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clare levered the coins off the counter , and carried her cup out into the small enclosure , where she balanced it on an unsteady iron table , her feet cushioned by a carpet of litter . |
| 2 | Clive Kemp 's suggestion that she join him on a cruise across the Mediterranean had seemed the perfect antidote to a long hard winter , a series of temping jobs which had been more demanding than usual , and the unpleasantness of her break-up with Giles . |
| 3 | She went with Breeze to call upon Mrs Rossitter , who was so charmed with her voice that she engaged her on the spot to read to her for two hours every day . |
| 4 | Rune filled her glass , watching her as she half emptied it in one long swallow , waiting until she replaced it on the table before enquiring mildly , ‘ Then what happened ? ’ |
| 5 | One final thrust at the embroidery and she tossed it on the table with a muttered oath any of the King 's soldiers would have admired . |
| 6 | This was her speciality and she made it on every occasion . |
| 7 | If she does so and the husband purchases the replacement house for her , and she occupies it on the same terms , a subsequent transfer to her of that house will not be within the terms of the concession ( see p18 ) because that house will never have been a matrimonial home . |
| 8 | Watching every movement , and she put him on and put his blanket on the ground and he was laying there in his handful of this and so she said come to me then and she put something on the floor she said well you know you go to it , I ai n't gon na give it to you and he 's she said well no , you 've got ta try ! |
| 9 | When Camille entered the open-plan area that was Barbs 's kitchen and dining-room , she realized she was still holding Barbs 's handbag , and she put it on the table with a swift , rejecting movement as though it was hot or unclean . |
| 10 | I asked Dang if she knew anything on the subject of knitting machines . |
| 11 | He wondered if she hung them on a china hand at night when she went to bed . |
| 12 | What happens if she does it on a weekend , will we just have a key ? |
| 13 | Drew her , as surely as if she had her on a string , unresisting , across the grass . |
| 14 | I suppose she meant if she put me on the Pill she was letting me sleep around . |
| 15 | Billy would n't notice if she put it on the back seat . |
| 16 | At two , your child does n't realise that if she bangs someone on the head with a spade , it hurts . |
| 17 | but she saw him on the way to work in town , had a bloody great barney with him on the market place on the way to work , just say , she was in there about ten minutes and burst into tears |
| 18 | When she passed him on the stairs his expression told her he scarcely knew she was there . |
| 19 | Nora called when she saw him on the road just ahead of her . |
| 20 | When she tapped him on the arm he turned swiftly , his eyes suddenly narrowed at the sight of her . |
| 21 | So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air |
| 22 | She could never ignore them as she passed them on the street , and they , as if they sensed it , turned to her , picking her out at once from a throng of a hundred other pedestrians as the one who saw and heard them . |
| 23 | Hubert James Bainbridge , tenth earl of Donnington , called out to his daughter as she passed him on the opposite side of the street , but she did not hear him . |
| 24 | ‘ Does one , ’ asked Gay rhetorically , as she seated herself on the foot of the bed , ‘ quarrel with those to whom one is totally indifferent ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ As soon as she saw me on the doorstep I felt she knew something . |
| 26 | As she placed them on the table , Roy spoke up . |
| 27 | He nodded without looking up as she placed it on the counter . |
| 28 | One evening , when the pain of her laboured breathing had become very bad , she lay watching Comfort as she sketched something on a big white pad . |
| 29 | She had gulped in this exciting sense of heightened perception with the wind and rain , as soon as she found herself on the pavement outside the house . |