Example sentences of "[subord] she [verb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew nothing of the future other than that it was an inhospitable fog that no-one had any choice but to enter , but she was certain that there was a scene all laid-out and waiting for her where she brought in the name of the man — or woman — who 'd first talked to Chrissie and then run her down . |
| 2 | Having been left by her husband in his urge for voyages abroad , Erendis retreats to the centre of Númenor , away from the sea , where she hears only the bleating of sheep . |
| 3 | And where she blows up the lorry . |
| 4 | She was collecting glasses and plates from all over , slinging the contents in a vile bucket , and Philippa noticed that she was n't particularly careful where she stubbed out the cigarette that dropped a little trail of ash wherever she went . |
| 5 | ‘ But … we ca n't take your bed , ’ objected Isabel faintly , although she wondered why the thought of sleeping in a bed with fitzAlan seemed worse than sleeping with him on a bench . |
| 6 | Jane found it cold , but her visitors found it freezing , so she turned up the thermostat to seventy . |
| 7 | She felt less of a stranger once she knew where the bathroom was . |
| 8 | But once she took over the directorship of the Institute for Chemical Research in Bucharest ( ICECHIM ) , she began to purge those scientists who had been foolish enough to cast doubt on her credentials or to refuse to ‘ co-operate ’ with her research . |
| 9 | He did n't understand but he heard the word ‘ spider ’ and laughed , and she laughed too , until she saw how the light slid over his cheekbones and dropped luminous on his hair like Ember 's , then she was crying into the warmth of his shoulder and he took her through a linden-scented night to a place where her tangled feelings speared through tawdry lust into oblivion where she was n't alone . |
| 10 | Cos she ran up the garden . |
| 11 | Ashley had swung to a middle-aged woman beside her to demand if she knew when the camera shot changed . |
| 12 | She risked standing , poised to duck back under the slab of rock if she saw even the shadow of a movement . |
| 13 | In this case , it was held that a woman lacked capacity to consent if she had neither the knowledge nor understanding to comprehend that ( a ) what was proposed to be done was the physical fact of penetration of her body by the male organ or if that were not proved , ( b ) that the act of penetration proposed was one of sexual connection as distinct from an act of a totally different character . |
| 14 | She was terrified that if she poured out the tale to her husband now , he would be filled with doubts as to the extent of her previous involvement with Davis . |
| 15 | When Mrs.McNaughtan noticed a pencilled note inside the cover saying ‘ fore-edge painting ’ , she knew that if she spread out the gilt edges of the book 's pages , we would see a picture , as indeed we did to our delight . |
| 16 | Those sausages were a credit to Mother because she knew just the seasoning they required , and we would hang them up in the kitchen for people to eat as they pleased . |
| 17 | ‘ What will you have ? ’ he enquired , going over to a drinks table while she tested out the couch and discovered that its appearance of comfort was no lie . |
| 18 | He sat on a kitchen chair while she peeled back the plaster he 'd stuck over the wound . |
| 19 | He held onto my suit while she added up the bill ( more than £20,1 could n't help noticing ) , took his money , gave him change , wrapped the flowers and poked them under his arm . |
| 20 | There was a quiet period while she put down the receiver and wrote her notes . |
| 21 | She gathered her straggly hair into a bun at the back of her head , holding it with her left hand while she pulled down the polo neck of her thin jumper . |
| 22 | Then she asked the ‘ patient ’ to hold the other end while she measured out the length again , mumbling a strange , unintelligible gibberish all the while . |
| 23 | But Sue is quick to justify the power she wields since she took over the editorship in 1989 . |
| 24 | To be as fair to her as is possible , it can at least be said that the work which she had plagiarized on her behalf ( since she had neither the time nor the inclination to copy it herself ) was generally of good standard . |
| 25 | Moira McVitie is fairly putting on the beef since she gave up the teaching when wee Scott was born . |
| 26 | I have n't seen her so enthusiastic since she worked out the cybemetics for the Golem of Prague . |
| 27 | Amid the clatter of cutlery and crockery , my contact revealed how Diana had seriously considered calling off the wedding two days before she walked down the aisle at St Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 28 | As soon as she got into the house , Molly ran up the stone stairs to the kitchen tap before she switched on the light . |
| 29 | Rodi 's second husband Gordon , 64 , died two months before she picked up the cheque from Bergerac star John Nettles . |
| 30 | It was a small back room at the back of the house , little more than a box , but when she pressed down the switch of the low-voltage nursery light she felt again a glow of maternal , proprietorial pride . |