Example sentences of "[adv] she [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly she seemed to take in the reality of what she was doing and all her confidence fled . |
| 2 | Everything she 'd ever wanted laid temptingly before her — only she had looked behind the scenes and knew the display was a hollow sham . |
| 3 | Idly she began to stab at the wet ground with it , but it struck something hard straight away . |
| 4 | Shannon never knew how long she lay slumped on the floor , racked by the agony of Dane 's betrayal , immobilised by sheer unremitting pain , yet unable even to find relief in tears . |
| 5 | There was no way of being certain how long she 'd spent on the ward ; it might have been six weeks or six years , but she was guessing at six months because this had been the first commission review that she 'd received . |
| 6 | Perhaps she 'd heard on the college grapevine that Barney had been getting an undue amount of visits from the police and was rejoicing that the heat was off her beloved Rodney . |
| 7 | Perhaps she had fled at the news of my coming . |
| 8 | And just as impulsively she turned to check on the movements of that incalculable swarm of half-grown children who were causing him this natural anxiety . |
| 9 | Even so she managed to escape from the depths and walked the world , enchanted by what she saw . |
| 10 | Catherine said the music sounded sweeter from high up , and so she went to sit in the dark on the stairs . |
| 11 | However , she still had not been fed and so she started to paw at the fence again . |
| 12 | At eleven o'clock she had turned on the wireless to hear the old man tell them they were at war with Germany . |
| 13 | It all went to show how far away she had grown from the life she had been used to lead ; and the marriage , of course , explained Papa 's sudden permission for her own . |
| 14 | It 's a week away she got washing at the moment . |
| 15 | She had been angry at first , then disbelieving , but finally she had gone to the aerodrome to see the padre , begging him for news of Rob . |
| 16 | Finally she had collapsed on the floor sobbing and at that point realized that she needed help . |
| 17 | They had been down here in Devon for almost two weeks , and already she had fallen under the lazy , carefree spell of the tranquil countryside . |
| 18 | Anyway she 'd knocked at the door and er , I said to her oh I do n't have to buy anything and she said no , no and erm |
| 19 | Altogether she had served on the committee for 11 years . |
| 20 | Eventually she learned to ride with the help of a neighbour . |
| 21 | ‘ Go to hell ! ’ she burst out hoarsely and started to fight in deadly earnest , slapping and scratching at him , little cries of panic coming from the back of her throat as her mind flashed back into full operation and she realised with sick fear just how close she had come to the edge . |
| 22 | Her anxiety about the visit disappeared once she became acclimatized to the appaling conditions confronting her . |
| 23 | Yesterday she had gone to the dingy little newsagent at the corner of the street to pay the paper bill , and to buy Matey a writing pad and envelopes , when she had seen on the counter a pile of postcards depicting society beauties . |
| 24 | Why only yesterday she 'd waved across the street to Clarice . |
| 25 | He lowered his head , kissing her angrily , and she fought him , struggling beneath him as he kept her trapped , even though she offered such resistance to what he knew so deeply she had wanted from the beginning . |
| 26 | Two years later she applied to nurse in the Boer War and died from typhoid fever at Simonstown , aged 37 . |
| 27 | A second later she had fallen to the ground , her hair covering her eyes so that she had only a vague impression of the man bending over her . |
| 28 | She must toss her head to see the lake clear again , and the action recalled how differently she had felt on the day when she skated there with Edwin Frere and Tom . |
| 29 | She was ignoring it because now she had to steer into the black mouth of the shell and right down its throat . |
| 30 | Until now she had clung to the belief that , despite her phone call , Dana was innocent of taking Garry from his wife . |