Example sentences of "[subord] she [verb] [pron] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 Clare levered the coins off the counter , and carried her cup out into the small enclosure , where she balanced it on an unsteady iron table , her feet cushioned by a carpet of litter .
2 Rune filled her glass , watching her as she half emptied it in one long swallow , waiting until she replaced it on the table before enquiring mildly , ‘ Then what happened ? ’
3 I asked Dang if she knew anything on the subject of knitting machines .
4 He wondered if she hung them on a china hand at night when she went to bed .
5 What happens if she does it on a weekend , will we just have a key ?
6 Drew her , as surely as if she had her on a string , unresisting , across the grass .
7 I suppose she meant if she put me on the Pill she was letting me sleep around .
8 Billy would n't notice if she put it on the back seat .
9 At two , your child does n't realise that if she bangs someone on the head with a spade , it hurts .
10 When she passed him on the stairs his expression told her he scarcely knew she was there .
11 Nora called when she saw him on the road just ahead of her .
12 When she tapped him on the arm he turned swiftly , his eyes suddenly narrowed at the sight of her .
13 So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air
14 She could never ignore them as she passed them on the street , and they , as if they sensed it , turned to her , picking her out at once from a throng of a hundred other pedestrians as the one who saw and heard them .
15 Hubert James Bainbridge , tenth earl of Donnington , called out to his daughter as she passed him on the opposite side of the street , but she did not hear him .
16 ‘ Does one , ’ asked Gay rhetorically , as she seated herself on the foot of the bed , ‘ quarrel with those to whom one is totally indifferent ? ’
17 ‘ As soon as she saw me on the doorstep I felt she knew something .
18 As she placed them on the table , Roy spoke up .
19 He nodded without looking up as she placed it on the counter .
20 One evening , when the pain of her laboured breathing had become very bad , she lay watching Comfort as she sketched something on a big white pad .
21 She had gulped in this exciting sense of heightened perception with the wind and rain , as soon as she found herself on the pavement outside the house .
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