Example sentences of "she [modal v] [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hank was so used to being deserted by his mother that he did not think it odd that she should go out on the first evening in ten weeks that his father had been able to spend at home . |
| 2 | This made it all the harder for the mother to treat the ailing youngster and she might give up on the treatment for this reason . |
| 3 | Carolyn lay on her side , spine curved , head right on the edge of the bed so that she could stare down on the baby in its cot beside her . |
| 4 | He looked at her searchingly , then stopped and led the way across the rabbit-nibbled turf to a point where she could look down on the inlet he called Seal Haven . |
| 5 | ‘ Very nice , ’ said Joe , eyeing the purchases , she 'd set out on the bed , ‘ but explain why it 's taken you all day . ’ |
| 6 | But ‘ it was evidently all she owned ; it was the home she had brought with her from the Fatherland , and would be the home she would set up on the prairie ’ . |
| 7 | Some days were better ; she would curl up on the sofa and talk dreamily about their taking a trip to Norway together . |
| 8 | Ariel starts across the clearing ; the trees and undergrowth , the tangle of roots and flowers have been razed , she must trudge across open ground to reach the sea , which is her aim ; she will walk out on the west side of the settlement 's boundaries , where the stockade has not yet been driven into the beach , past the rinsing and brewing pools which have already come to look neglected , the waterline slimy with weed , the flies hatching on the surface . |