Example sentences of "[subord] she [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She then rebuilt the old hospital in Santa Cruz and opened a pharmacy there , where she looked after the sick of that area . |
| 2 | She managed to escape and ran to a lorry parked nearby where she banged on the door to attract the driver 's attention . |
| 3 | Howell ( this volume ) takes up some of these issues in her paper where she argues against the interpretation of ritual as catharsis among the Chewong . |
| 4 | Her ‘ Spencer Special , ’ where she dived into the pool leaving barely a ripple , always attracted an audience . |
| 5 | It was then that she read Angela Kunze 's manifesto , written in blue on a long ribbon of paper above her head where she rests against the wall : ‘ I am fasting to cleanse myself of fear and hopelessness , hate and violence , impatience and the lust for novelty . |
| 6 | Instead , she wandered into town , where she bought a bag of chips , well soused in vinegar and wrapped in newspaper ; she took the bag to her room , where she sat on the edge of the single bed , slowly eating chips in the dark and thinking . |
| 7 | I grinned then , I recall , and brought the stunter down fast and acute across the weeds and the water , the sand and the surf , scudding it in across the wind to jerk and zoom just before it hit the girl herself where she sat on the dune top holding and spasmodically jerking the string she held in her hand , connected to the sky . |
| 8 | With a brief wave Lindsey hurried along the corridor towards the consulting-room , where she sat at the desk , taking several deep breaths to compose herself before calling for her first patient . |
| 9 | The insolvency department has moved to Southampton based Lyon Pilcher , the Salisbury office is closing down with the loss of four jobs , and Gaynor Harris is back where she started with the Southampton practice ( to be known as Hook Harris ) which she has bought from the old partnership with Charles Bullworthy , with money borrowed from family and friends . |
| 10 | Paul , her husband , generally left before seven and had lunch out with one of his friends , while she used her free day to take care of a thousand chores more annoying than the duties of her job : she had to go to the post office and fret for half an hour in a queue , go shopping in the supermarket , where she quarrelled with the saleswoman and wasted time waiting at the check-out , telephone the plumber and plead with him to be precisely on time so that she would n't have to wait the whole day for him . |
| 11 | The galloping granny , from Bristol , used to run the 800 yards and 4 x 400 relay for the Imperial Tobacco company where she worked on the shop floor . |
| 12 | And although she listened for the sound of his steps , she did not hear them . |
| 13 | If only Silas had been there she could have consulted him , but although she looked along the corridor and outside there was no sign of him . |
| 14 | Who better than she knew of the transience of power ? |
| 15 | She liked her boss a lot more now than she had at the beginning of their relationship . |
| 16 | When they did converse , she said little and mostly listened ; it had only recently struck Angelica that she knew almost nothing more about Alina now than she had at the end of that first day . |
| 17 | She had got herself all hot and bothered and she felt much safer in the water than she had in the barn . |
| 18 | Judi looked better than she had in the morgue . |
| 19 | She had spent more than she intended on the wetsuit , but could n't resist its bright fuchsia colours . |
| 20 | I have seen photographs of her ( looking it must be admitted not much younger than she did at the time in which this story is set ) , across which she has signed herself ‘ Mademoiselle ’ , and sometimes ‘ Miss ’ . |
| 21 | And she knew herself to look better , clad in what passed for finery these days , than she did in the house where with so much work to do she had not a moment to spare for her appearance . |
| 22 | She says she feel better now than she did before the accident . |
| 23 | Each goal is planned for a week but some may possibly require longer ; our dieter will have to take extra time if it is taking her body longer to adjust than she anticipates at the start . |
| 24 | There was nowhere else to go , so she knocked on the door . |
| 25 | Meredith supposed Harriet would be fully committed socially over the Christmas period but she wanted to offer some token of hospitality , so she went across the road after breakfast and asked if Harriet would like to come over to lunch . |
| 26 | Mr Arsmtrong said : ‘ She said she thought he was going to start on her again so she went into the kitchen to get a knife and while her husband had his back turned she pushed the knife into his lower back . |
| 27 | A quick glance showed that towels were needed , so she went to the linen cupboard and collected two large fluffy ones , but as she returned to the room the sound of Doreen 's plaintive voice caused her to pause . |
| 28 | Lucy had no wish to be caught eavesdropping , so she walked into the room and hung the towels over the rail . |
| 29 | The end of town offered nothing but the turn-around , so she struggled over the dunes , through razor-edged grasses . |
| 30 | None of the big trainers wanted to know Magic Night as a youngster , so she passed into the care of little-known Philippe Demarcastel and made his name . |