Example sentences of "she [verb] on the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 She went steadily on , from foothold to foothold , only stopping to peel off her glove now and then and push a finger into the wet fringed mouth of a sea-anemone , but mostly she concentrated on the next step , the next handhold , with the sea on one side of her , the swell of grassy land the other .
3 She stopped on the third step , and looked back at Pete .
4 So much that she fell on the first excuse to put some distance between them .
5 ‘ You have done well , Wilson , ’ she said on the last day in Siena .
6 Even if she jumped on the next space shuttle to Mars it would n't make any difference .
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