Example sentences of "[coord] she [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Either the mermaid was energetically breasting the waves or she sat on the upturned keel of a drowned vessel and combed out long and improbably yellow hair .
2 She could see Keith , crouched over his papers , and she rapped on the living-room window to tell him to let her in .
3 A cow lashed out at her and she slipped on the wet floor .
4 Irene Markham indicated for her to sit down and she perched on the very edge of an upright chair suddenly feeling quite miserable and wishing she had n't come .
5 Henniker moved a chair for her , and she sat on the extreme edge of it .
6 President Marjorie Clarke expressed pleasure at seeing Kay Hampton back after her recent illness and she reported on the good progress being made by Sue Rankin and Miss Elliott who had also been ill .
7 Her car started to overheat and she stopped on the hard shoulder .
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