Example sentences of "she [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've done it , ’ she whispered into the little cave made by her fingers . |
| 2 | ‘ Sweet heaven , ’ she whispered to the empty car , ‘ please let me reach the main road safely . |
| 3 | There are hints , there are passages here and there where she goes into the present tense . |
| 4 | The young woman feels curiously as though she is only playing at house once more when she goes into the first flat or home that she can truly call her own . |
| 5 | All eyes will be on Vina Buller today as she goes into the final showjumping phase in the lead of the National Championship sponsored by Heineken at Punchestown in Co Kildare . |
| 6 | She goes for the bold approach , transforming whole walls and courtyards with bright murals , herb mazes , whacky garden furniture . |
| 7 | The following example comes from the interview with Sally Jordan , a factory worker and a dustman 's wife ; she belongs in the first group of working-class women whose early positive or non-committal response turns into predominantly negative feeling : |
| 8 | Nothing in her life so far had prepared Laura for the shock she experienced at the sheer animal magnetism projected by the stranger . |
| 9 | She experienced for the first time the frightening inhospitality of city streets . |
| 10 | She longs for the anguished desolation of a late capitalism that has n't quite worked as her generation dreamed . |
| 11 | Having no book or magazine with her , she read from the opposite wall an advertisement for duty-free goods obtainable at Heathrow , one for travelling very cheaply by boat to Holland , another was deciphering an invitation to office temps couched in a kind of code , when the train drew into Finchley Road . |
| 12 | The next year she applied for the nursing course . |
| 13 | There was an evening to pass before the midnight flight to London and , despite Tucker 's adamancy that Miss Kennedy would n't see her , she taxied to the Big Bamboo on Wulff Road . |
| 14 | He was looking at her for help — he was pleading , through his fury , for the assistance of his sister … it was just that , in his youth , he could not control the emotion in his face , and she quivered with the imagined rage , only now recognizing the desperation in his eyes . |
| 15 | It was a lame apology , but as she plunged into the cooler shadow of the house she knew she 'd used the first excuse which sprang to mind . |
| 16 | She tottered through the open door . |
| 17 | Throughout her life she operated on the fruitful margin that arbitrarily separates the statutory from the voluntary body . |
| 18 | She made for the new extension , hoping she had imagined that speculative look in her young assistant 's eye , and feeling that she 'd better let him think the Palmer & Pearson file had dropped on her desk while he was absent on Friday . |
| 19 | She fought for the working class she fought for education she fought for everything to benefit the community she was a wonderful person ! |
| 20 | She realised for the first time how Benjamin must be feeling . |
| 21 | ‘ But only because when we turned up at the solicitor 's to work out the marriage settlement — her idea , not mine — she realised for the first time that I was n't as rich as she thought . |
| 22 | Speechless , she glared at him , then felt the colour start back to her cheeks as she realised for the first time what he was dressed in , which was very little indeed . |
| 23 | But as she sipped the hot , reviving brew , she realised for the first time since buying the house just how very quiet it was — eerily quiet . |
| 24 | She lived on the other side of Chelmsford and Alice took Catherine there in the carrying cot on the bus . |
| 25 | She lived on the fifth floor of a pre-war block , and when they went up in the lift she casually passed him her handbag and said , Hold this , and started to take her clothes off . |
| 26 | She lived in the Palestinian camp at Rashidiyeh , a wretched four square miles of breeze-block huts and cabins relieved only by the occasional tree , a straggling plant hanging from a poorly made brick wall and an open sewer that snaked uneasily down the centre of the mud roads . |
| 27 | She lived in the present tense of the school with its totally absorbing pattern of routine and minor rebellion . |
| 28 | Only she lived in the posh part , called Hove , and whenever people said ‘ You live in Brighton , do n't you ? ’ it was normal to reply ‘ Hove , actually ’ until it almost had become the name , Hove-Actually . |
| 29 | She gazed into the middle distance . |
| 30 | Theda 's deep grey eyes grew dark with distress as she gazed into the vicious blackness of Lady Merchiston 's own . |