Example sentences of "[adv] she [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | If Eleanor Darcy can manage a private room in a prison , perhaps she manages one in the local pub as well ? |
2 | So she put them on the plate and she might want to work out what would three lots of two come to . |
3 | So she did it in the early morning before the Men came , or in the warm evenings when the Zoo gates were shut . |
4 | So she hit him on the face to make him prick his ears ! |
5 | They rattled as she stalked , sometimes alarming her prey , and so she scattered them into the sand , to be ingested by the things that lived below the dunes . |
6 | So she helped them into the boat and they embraced one another . |
7 | Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground . |
8 | Gently she placed them in the carrier bag . |
9 | Gently she shook him by the shoulder , and his eyes opened . |
10 | Finally she shut herself in the attic room on Ella 's day off and sobbed until she ached in body and soul . |
11 | Outside she found herself at the top of a fire escape . |
12 | Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus . |
13 | Jo refused to discuss the Oscars ; the whole idea was too exciting to bear serious thought , and besides she knew something about the events of the next three and a half hours that her mother did not , and would not until her name was called . |
14 | Deliberately she looked him in the eye as she said it . |
15 | Numbly she followed him from the dance floor , barely even noticing when some of the dancers called out to her in passing . |
16 | I 'll bet she thinks that directly she lets me into the A.R.R.U. I 'll do a Charlie Peters ! |
17 | Five minutes later she joined him in the Biography alcove . |
18 | So it was a short time later she found herself under the hard eyes of Sister Mary , the large nun she remembered from last night , and her very hard hand . |
19 | Twenty minutes later she found herself inside the Head 's office , white and trembling , so obviously terrified that the Head herself was taken aback . |
20 | Tenderly she laid it on the bed . |
21 | She did not see Joe for a few days and then one Friday as she walked past she saw him in the teashop and went in to join him . |
22 | It decided her ; instantly she followed it to the broad Danube . |
23 | Now she hears nothing but the sounds of her own house . |
24 | Now she hears nothing but the sounds of her own house . |
25 | Now she identified herself with the future , as freedom was breaking out everywhere , and Labour with the failed past . |
26 | Now she wears nothing but the same thing , and always . |
27 | Time and again she told herself she was fortunate to see the back of him , so often she reminded herself of the despicable way he had behaved . |
28 | She had such colour , such brightness , that sometimes she reminded me of the whirling mosaics , except that she was n't fragmented but unusually complete . |
29 | Sometimes she exasperated herself with the stupid ideas she had . |
30 | But then she scratched me between the ears and I started purring despite myself . |