Example sentences of "[conj] she [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She then rebuilt the old hospital in Santa Cruz and opened a pharmacy there , where she looked after the sick of that area . |
| 2 | She managed to escape and ran to a lorry parked nearby where she banged on the door to attract the driver 's attention . |
| 3 | Her ‘ Spencer Special , ’ where she dived into the pool leaving barely a ripple , always attracted an audience . |
| 4 | Instead , she wandered into town , where she bought a bag of chips , well soused in vinegar and wrapped in newspaper ; she took the bag to her room , where she sat on the edge of the single bed , slowly eating chips in the dark and thinking . |
| 5 | I grinned then , I recall , and brought the stunter down fast and acute across the weeds and the water , the sand and the surf , scudding it in across the wind to jerk and zoom just before it hit the girl herself where she sat on the dune top holding and spasmodically jerking the string she held in her hand , connected to the sky . |
| 6 | With a brief wave Lindsey hurried along the corridor towards the consulting-room , where she sat at the desk , taking several deep breaths to compose herself before calling for her first patient . |
| 7 | The insolvency department has moved to Southampton based Lyon Pilcher , the Salisbury office is closing down with the loss of four jobs , and Gaynor Harris is back where she started with the Southampton practice ( to be known as Hook Harris ) which she has bought from the old partnership with Charles Bullworthy , with money borrowed from family and friends . |
| 8 | Paul , her husband , generally left before seven and had lunch out with one of his friends , while she used her free day to take care of a thousand chores more annoying than the duties of her job : she had to go to the post office and fret for half an hour in a queue , go shopping in the supermarket , where she quarrelled with the saleswoman and wasted time waiting at the check-out , telephone the plumber and plead with him to be precisely on time so that she would n't have to wait the whole day for him . |
| 9 | The galloping granny , from Bristol , used to run the 800 yards and 4 x 400 relay for the Imperial Tobacco company where she worked on the shop floor . |
| 10 | ‘ You only need one person to say that he or she benefited from the product to lose the case , ’ she said . |
| 11 | Again it would not matter if the person were a US citizen or not , so long as he or she lived in the US the classification would stand . |
| 12 | and or she went to the door |
| 13 | It seems clear , however , that it would be possible in other similar circumstances for a police officer to detain such a person for what he or she did after the offence rather than for the crime itself . |
| 14 | Thus she used a stout stick which was nearly twice her height to walk across the court , or she leaned on the arm of the nearest grandchild or servant . |
| 15 | And although she listened for the sound of his steps , she did not hear them . |
| 16 | If only Silas had been there she could have consulted him , but although she looked along the corridor and outside there was no sign of him . |
| 17 | One more guilty secret that Maggie felt obliged to keep from everyone was the deep fear and disgust that she felt at the thought of sexuality . |
| 18 | On this particular occasion , having picked up her baby daughter , the mother was in such a haste to reach the safety of the shelter that she tripped on the stone steps leading down into its dark interior . |
| 19 | For the first time I had an opportunity of seeing Barbara at work in detailed negotiations , and whatever small credit attached to me for the major idea , the scale and ingenuity that she expended on the detail and in making it possible to arrive at a suitable settlement was beyond praise . |
| 20 | The heron profile that she saw through the grille . |
| 21 | ‘ They were n't like you when I was at school , ’ had been his amused reaction when she had told him that she taught in the village . |
| 22 | She recalled that she had at the time been a little put out by the prince 's interest in Joan — but now the important thing was to persuade Joan to join in the festivities and bring her a first-hand report . |
| 23 | The one that she had at the pool she threw on the swimming pool floor in disgust cos I put her back in the carrycot thing Yeah Ev Evelyn was saying oh will I , she said will you see me back er she said will I see you back in in the twos group ? |
| 24 | No doubt the jury would have been interested to hear that the victim had convictions for offences of dishonesty , and conceivably even more impressed ( though in law they would be wrong to be ) to learn that she had in the past tried to stab a policeman . |
| 25 | Well , perhaps one could believe that , but not- ’ Her voice dropped further now and her head came towards Peggy , saying , ‘ Not that you never bathed her , never had bathed her , and that she got in the bath with her father every night . |
| 26 | She complained of too little to do now that she lived in the village as companion to an elderly lady . |
| 27 | Then I thought that she lived in the cottage — Maria looked after her , perhaps ; or perhaps this room that was to be mine for the week-end was normally hers . |
| 28 | But she made certain that my sister who was six years younger , she made certain that she went to the county school . |
| 29 | I would like to think that she died still being floated by the giant kite , that she went round the world and rose higher as she died of starvation and dehydration and so grew less weighty still , to become , eventually , a tiny skeleton riding the jetstreams of the planet ; a sort of Flying Dutchwoman . |
| 30 | They all agreed that she fell off the bridge . |