Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They got 'er took away in the end .
2 she said , so she goes up on the step now , goes to this
3 She looks at me for a bit , then she goes over to the drawer and takes out another envelope .
4 and she , he , she goes down to the abortion centre right after and he dies !
5 She goes off to the city for a few days , but then she is back .
6 She 's back in the canteen from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. , when she goes home to the children and her working day starts its next shift .
7 One evening soon after , she goes out to the pig yard and hurls defiance against the Almighty : ‘ Go on , call me a hog !
8 And she goes out into the street and she pulls her skirt up .
9 Although she turns up for the interview her customary peaked-capped urchin self , she is worried that her feminist interpreters will consider her video a sell-out .
10 2 She turns quickly on the balls of her feet to meet the advance .
11 Tilda appeared with a ball of oozing clay in her arms which she flung down on the table .
12 She read on to the story of holidays at Blackpool and Filey , a trip to London , and the gradually expanding horizons which writing brought to Walter .
13 As fast as her rheumatic legs would carry her , she toddled round to the Rope Walk , to the house where Eb and Josh and Ruth had been born and brought up .
14 Maybe she slows down in the cold .
15 She slouched back to the living room .
16 The ones which could not be changed , or were too important to be missed , she shared out with the others and put a schedule on their desks .
17 At the end of the ceremony she tottered off to the bus , looking as if she had every intention of popping in to the local when she got home and livening everyone up with a steady dropping of ‘ To think our ‘ Ilda should go before me ’ remarks .
18 Aunt Elena is a concert pianist , and she plays all over the country and in Europe , too .
19 And now she is married to Brian Bowen , towards whom she drives home through the January night .
20 Mrs Chalk was nowhere to be found , so she made straight for the medicine cupboard in the spacious Georgian-style kitchen with its enormous , old-fashioned white-painted cupboards and scrubbed-elm table , and located the painkillers , swallowing the dosage with water before setting about making the tea .
21 She made up for the difficulty by striking their fingers with a ruler when they erred , especially when learning the piano .
22 Turning from him , she made quickly for the door .
23 A sense of self-preservation cautioned her not to stick around , and before he could react she sprinted up to the house , feeling strangely exhilarated for the first time since she had left England .
24 Stella kept them waiting a long time , and when she did appear she sprinted off down the street ahead of them .
25 In no mood now to finish her work , she stalked along to the kitchen .
26 She stalked off across the road , her hat jammed firmly on her head and her mouth set in a mutinous line .
27 And she stalked off to the foyer .
28 She stalked off into the house .
29 She stalked out of the factory , intending to walk through the grounds to cool off , and it was n't until she was passing the administration block that she realised it was raining .
30 Her conscious understanding of how she was using language is clear from the explanations she gives for the expressions she uses in the poem : ( on line 2 ) " She lived outside in the open , so the air was like her house " ; ( on line 5 " the streets were like a giant shop where she could pick and choose out of bins and gutters " ; ( on line 8 ) " this means she was close to nature and she felt like the yew was her mother " .
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