Example sentences of "she [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Her hands dropped to her sides as she gazed into the cracked mirror . |
| 32 | Her deeply lined face was creased into a smile as she gazed at the tiny ear in her hand . |
| 33 | She gazed at the golden-haired figure standing so tall and so proud in the centre of the stage . |
| 34 | She gazed at the new arrangement , absent-mindedly reached for the tea Julia had placed near her elbow and drank . |
| 35 | She gazed at the stubby brick lighthouse , which was over two hundred years old , and had been built to guide the fishing boats home safely to harbour . |
| 36 | Her brows puckered in a frown , she gazed at the deserted coach , and she did n't realise that Roman had left her until he returned , a furious expression on his face . |
| 37 | As she listened to the playback she gazed at the naked corpse . |
| 38 | ‘ Oh dear ’ , said Theodora , as she gazed after the familiar vehicle . |
| 39 | She sits on the only chair in the room , by the night table . |
| 40 | She laughs to the inky sky . |
| 41 | The larger female is more heavily marked , this helps to make her better camouflaged on the ground nest she builds in the Arctic spring , immediately after the snow begins to melt . |
| 42 | Instinctively she sought through the whole cosmos for Fenna , and knew she would not find him . |
| 43 | ‘ Sixteen coffees , ’ she announced in the cool voice that they seemed to be using to each other , ‘ followed by — er — ’ Consulting her list , she continued , ‘ Six rounds of toast , five boiled eggs with soldiers … ’ |
| 44 | Benny moved along with a strong sense of adventure , and had to resist whistling a jaunty tune as she crept through the scrubby vegetation that surrounded the cemetery . |
| 45 | All those years before television , she glowed like the Ready Brek kid , safe with her angels all the way to school . |
| 46 | She got into the warm interior of the taxi , reeking of tobacco and ancient loves , and fell asleep at once . |
| 47 | In an ecstasy of selfishness she got into the magic train . |
| 48 | She got into the flat-bottomed boat and tried to push it away from the bank but the pole stuck in the mud and the boat was too heavy for her to move . |
| 49 | How she got through the next day , she could n't remember . |
| 50 | She got to the other side , making for the piazza , and again hugged the shadows . |
| 51 | I mean I do n't know whether she thought she could put them in the garden when she got to the new place and they 'd grow but |
| 52 | When she got to the first landing , her mother 's bedroom door suddenly flew open and her mother burst out . |
| 53 | The first thing Carlie did when she got to the foster home was pull the plastic footrest up close to the TV : ‘ Do n't talk to me when ‘ Young and Restless ’ is on , ’ she warned the foster mother who was standing behind her . |
| 54 | When she got to the little clearing she halted , seeing Léonie there on her knees , looking up at the outcrop of rock . |
| 55 | She had recently been knitting double jacquard , but when she got to the very top of a sleeve , she had a little disaster and dropped the lot ! |
| 56 | When she got to the large graph that shows the state of the church-roof appeal , she stopped and looked down at the waiting crowds as if she was a victorious politician looking down on her compliant voters . |
| 57 | She was Dr Katharine Ash , twenty-five years old , able to handle the admiration she got from the opposite sex with aplomb , supremely confident of her destiny . |
| 58 | She rode down the steep path , then up through the collapsed gate and into the area of the pinnacle of land on which the fortress had been constructed . |
| 59 | So too was Maud , the daughter of Holroyd Smith , who later recalled that auspicious day she rode on the top deck of car 5 after the opening ceremony and played with the chain of ‘ a very jolly Mayor ’ who sat next to her . |
| 60 | She rode around the blazing pyre . |