Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then at top speed she raced for the keeper 's cottage . |
| 2 | Then she stood up and without a backward glance she walked from the cafeteria . |
| 3 | Leonora straightened her shoulders , pale and vulnerable in the plain black sweater and skirt she wore in the shop . |
| 4 | In the privacy of her bedroom she grimaced in the direction of the voice and made her way downstairs , taking her time , not caring if he went grey in the process of waiting for her . |
| 5 | In the full face of the ridicule she went to the post office evening after evening , ridicule she willed not to see or notice . |
| 6 | As she caught her breath , her temper erupted , and in wild self-defence she pushed against the steel wall of his chest , twisted frantically in his arms , her grey eyes sparking fire as she lifted her hand to hit out at him blindly . |
| 7 | As he turned back to his car she fled across the motorway . |
| 8 | In her mind she went over the transformation . |
| 9 | And with this in mind she returned to the reception desk to ask Stella if she could use the phone . |
| 10 | A quick glance at her watch showed that she would have time for a short walk outside before dinner , and with this in mind she sprang from the bed and raked a comb through her hair . |
| 11 | As she made the tea she thought about the way her brothers had talked about Mandy Watkins . |
| 12 | After making the tea she sat at the kitchen table to drink it , and was still sitting there when dawn broke . |
| 13 | Beatrice Webb signed the Appeal , although as she recorded in her diary for 1889 , she was impressed by a reply she received from a woman who complained that her lodger could vote but she could not , and that while she could vote for her parish council and her local Poor Law Guardians , she could not do so for an MP . |
| 14 | She has started to reject the liver and bowel she received in a transplant last year after a huge fund-raising campaign to send her to America . |
| 15 | For the interview she opted for a cream silk shirt , and a tailored black skirt . |
| 16 | They crossed M Street and kept going and in a doorway she snatched off the wig and beret and rammed them into the shoulder bag that had been expanded from the purse she had been carrying before . |
| 17 | She took her notepad from the pocket of her apron as she went , and at the doorway she stopped for a moment as if to gather herself . |
| 18 | In the last chapter she meditates on the meaning of suffering . |
| 19 | chapter she appeals to the reader , I know I came from etcetera , etcetera |
| 20 | Paula asked , stubbing out her cigarette and concealing the end in an empty lozenge tin she used as an ashtray . |
| 21 | Sweating with fear she wriggled through the hole , then ducked under the freight car and crawled slowly forward on her belly between the two sets of rails . |
| 22 | Knowing my shortcomings , Mum had taken charge of making curtains for George 's house and a week before the wedding she went to the market to find some fabric for the last pair . |
| 23 | He would go on sleeping badly , and opening people 's luggage , and given great luck he would even keep on living with Sam , though it was difficult to imagine that she would seriously consent to give up such a trophy , however little genuine pleasure she had from the child . |
| 24 | So when [ named defendant ] , 41 , made sexual overtures for the first time during their five-year friendship she went to a neighbour and cried rape . |
| 25 | The couple had little in common , and her children died in infancy , one after another , a loss she attributed to the lead works Wright ran on their premises . |
| 26 | That whole winter she drank with no pleasure . |
| 27 | Using the trowel she chipped at the ground outside the door , prising cold earth from among the prickly stems and broken bricks , gathering it with her hands and putting it into the bucket . |
| 28 | It was a gabled Victorian house set behind a high red brick wall in the heart of the city and as Rachel drew on to the gravel forecourt she sat for a moment admiring the mass of copper beeches that surrounded the house . |
| 29 | Sarah that where that little desk she used as a dressing table , as I said , the desk in our will fit in there nicely , she says but I 'm leaving that till we |
| 30 | Having adjusted the heat and thus satisfactorily disposed of the problem of lunch she went to the bathroom for a shower and then returned to the bedroom . |