Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daalny stood tense and at a loss for one moment , before she flung herself bodily into the open doorway , as though she feared the door might be slammed again before she could prevent , though Cadfael made no move . |
| 2 | After they had told her Wexford and Burden sat helplessly while she flung herself face-downwards on the sofa and sobbed into the cushions . |
| 3 | Feeling less athletic , in fact weak and drained all over , she lowered herself slowly into the cool water . |
| 4 | Returning to the settle , she seated herself again by the child and said kindly , ‘ Come on now , come on . |
| 5 | He was looking across at her as she seated herself gingerly in the armchair opposite him . |
| 6 | She pinned them bravely to the shoulder of her dress , touched the blooms lightly with her fingers and said to the room at large , |
| 7 | She led them slowly through the graveyard to the burial site . |
| 8 | She led him stealthily up the path Rodomonte had taken to the summit . |
| 9 | Taking the menu out of the nearest gentleman 's hand , she laid it flat on the table , and with her pencil pointed to the first item , then mimed drinking . |
| 10 | She lathered herself languidly beneath the refreshing jets of water , letting the spray caress every hot , sticky part of her with a glorious wave of sensual awareness . |
| 11 | She wiped them away with the back of one trembling hand . |
| 12 | She prodded him fiercely in the buttocks with the tip of her brolly , accusing him of disloyalty . |
| 13 | If she caught me now in the front hall she would waste a good ten minutes warning me that I was risking tuberculosis and a gastric ulcer by being too late to eat a proper meal quietly , and probably throw in the chances of my poisoning a patient with the wrong drug before the night was out through carelessness induced by my own lack of blood-sugar . |
| 14 | She caught him again on the way back between oven and table , and sank herself into him once more , but after a moment became conscious that he was having to make a considerable effort to hold the hot saucepan away from her at arm 's length . |
| 15 | She smacked him playfully on the bottom with her tea towel . |
| 16 | ‘ She says she found him just outside the ship . ’ |
| 17 | At Universal , she found herself painfully opposite the eponymous talking mule in Francis Joins The Wacs ( 1954 ) and as the female lead in Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Cops , ( 1955 ) but had delightful moments in Has Anybody Seen My Gal ? ( 1952 ) singing ‘ The Red Red Robin ’ while bobbing around doing the housework . |
| 18 | She levered herself away from the door , crossed to the heavy old sideboard and took out the bottle of whisky and a glass . |
| 19 | She began to take a different route so that she approached her home from the other end of Magdalen Street and avoided a meeting with John . |
| 20 | She let herself quietly into the house , and immediately heard the sound of voices coming from the living-room . |
| 21 | She drew him away to the corner by the iced water machine . |
| 22 | When she told him calmly about the baby , he had genuinely wished that his wife would divorce him . |
| 23 | It really would be very much more practical to have her hair cut , she told herself severely for the umpteenth time , but the simple truth was that she liked having her hair long , loved the feeling of the heavy silken strands on her skin . |
| 24 | You did the wise thing , calling a halt when you did , she told herself sharply for the umpteenth time . |
| 25 | Accepting enthusiastically the school 's principles of unsectarianism , coeducation up to the age of eleven , mixing middle- and artisan-class children , and making lessons short and pleasurable , she threw herself wholeheartedly into the teaching until forced to resign through ill health . |
| 26 | Mr Edgar tried to get hold of the key , but she threw it quickly into the hottest part of the fire . |
| 27 | Staring at him in confusion , she hauled herself upright in the bed and pushed the pillow behind her . |
| 28 | She shakes me gently by the hand and announces quietly , ‘ I 've just got out of the bath . ’ |
| 29 | As soon as the chicks are mobile , she leads them away from the nest and down to the shore . |
| 30 | She perched herself uncomfortably on the only chair in the room as he sat down on the bed . |