Example sentences of "she opened the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She opened the curtains more widely to get light to see it . |
| 2 | She opened the door– slipped the hood of her see-through up over her hat and stepped into the ram . |
| 3 | She opened the back of the book , and found a heading on the fold-in part of the jacket which announced that this section was ‘ About the Author ’ . |
| 4 | She opened the back of his watch case and took out the curl of golden hair . |
| 5 | Ashley called , as she opened the bottle in the kitchen . |
| 6 | When she opened the boot of her car to dump her shopping inside , one of the thieves suddenly grabbed her round the neck from behind . |
| 7 | The juniper in No 26 next door was looking as tired as she felt as she opened the gate . |
| 8 | As she opened the gate , some people came out of the front door — an elderly couple with Susan behind them . |
| 9 | ‘ This way , ’ Miss Honey said , and she opened the gate and led Matilda through and closed it again . |
| 10 | She opened the gate of Number 10 , the terraced house of Miss Vine , whose budgerigar was unwell . |
| 11 | But several days after she opened the wallet , her brother arrived from Norfolk . |
| 12 | In the kitchen , she opened the freezer and found a Chicken Kiev for two , which she put in the microwave to defrost . |
| 13 | I suggest she opened the window for someone else , and did n't expect her own fingerprints to be taken . |
| 14 | ‘ She had n't closed the bedroom door and when she opened the window to pass Christopher out it created a backdraught that sucked the fire right through the bedroom . ’ |
| 15 | She opened the window altogether and leaned out , shivering as the night air struck icy through her thin nightgown . |
| 16 | She opened the window again . |
| 17 | She opened the window , climbed out of the room and down the ivy on the wall . |
| 18 | Just faintly she could hear the sound of the river , and she opened the window and leant out until she could glimpse it through the trees , the water still shrouded in clouds of early-morning mist . |
| 19 | Unless she kept a watch over the flour , rats ate it , unless she opened the sluice , the water would not drive the wheel . |
| 20 | No I mean she just started , she opened the conversation like that . |
| 21 | She opened the dresser drawer to put away the knives and spoons . |
| 22 | Then she opened the dart and saw the smudgy letters inside : |
| 23 | The clerk was confronted by a man holding a handgun when she opened the branch of the Trustee Savings Bank in the Arndale Centre , Stretford , shortly before 9am . |
| 24 | Most of the food seemed already to have been disseminated , and a safety cut-out had switched off the stasis field when she opened the hatch . |
| 25 | After she had pulled on her baggy T-shirt , shyness made her step into her skirt before she opened the cabin door . |
| 26 | Peggy heard the laughter coming from next door before she left the woodland , and it further burst on her as she opened the kitchen door . |
| 27 | She opened the letters but the bag was a test of nerve . |
| 28 | Many of you will remember Her Majesty the Queen 's visit in 1984 when she opened the Queen 's Library at Sighthill , and perhaps a few of you will recall the Duke of Edinburgh 's visit in 1965 . |
| 29 | Then she opened the bread drawer of the dresser , took out the bread knife and the oval basket of plaited straw with its red check cotton lining . |
| 30 | Carefully she opened the drawer where the two copies of her paper lay and took them out . |