Example sentences of "she [adv] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought back over the last few hours , the acknowledged relief of talking to Alice , the knowledge that nothing shocked her , nothing surprised her , that everything he did , if not right in her eyes , was judged by a different standard from the one she rigorously applied to the rest of her life . |
| 2 | There were even rumours that her condition would force her withdrawal , but such scares proved unfounded and she duly arrived in the paddock . |
| 3 | She duly turned to the Psalms but found them equally disturbing . |
| 4 | As she lay in the dark , listening to the moan of the wind above the crash of the waves , she slowly came to the realisation that , although she had lost her father , his spirit would give her strength to go on without him . |
| 5 | When Nan rushed in , pulling her hat and coat off as she came in , she laughingly looked at the clock and said , ‘ Made it all but a minute , miss . |
| 6 | She mostly lived in the country and she was rich . |
| 7 | She eventually crawled to the road and called a passer-by for help . |
| 8 | She eventually transferred to the Tisch School of Arts , New York University , graduating in Fine Arts with a film major . |
| 9 | He longed to take her in his arms , but she swiftly dodged around the table to the window so that the Spanish table was a barrier between them . |
| 10 | For no good reason she suddenly thought of the bruise on his cheek , the slight blue stain he had tried to hide from her , and burst into angry tears as she ran . |
| 11 | When she peered cautiously round the door , remembering his annoyance at her earlier prying into this place , she literally froze to the spot . |
| 12 | Even when lightning lit the skies and the floodgates opened when she was still twenty miles from her destination she merely flicked on the car 's wipers and peered out into the black night , letting the piercing beam of the headlights guide her along the road . |
| 13 | While the kettle was boiling , she idly glanced at the letters . |
| 14 | And then , when she only stared at the car without responding , he added , ‘ I said it was a matter of timing . |
| 15 | But she only came on the scene recently ; there were others . |
| 16 | At first , she only worked on the household duties , especially the cooking . |
| 17 | When she finally went to the family planning clinic , the woman she saw was not very sympathetic , she said " What school do you go to ? " and when I told her she said " You 've really thrown away your chances . " " |
| 18 | The job she finally acquired during the summer holidays meant leaving home before the children and returning after them . |
| 19 | Even that proved not enough to save her ; less than a year after her father 's passing , she finally succumbed to the illness which had beset her for so long , and was laid to rest at St John 's . |
| 20 | First , she contended that her husband put her under undue pressure to sign and that she finally succumbed to the pressure . |
| 21 | Months later , in her first published novel , she finally broke with the dominance of abstraction ; and Under the Net dances lyrically and playfully around the philosophical idea suggested in its title . |
| 22 | She finally emerged from the water to see her friend with her bikini-top around her neck and the bottom dangling from one ankle . |
| 23 | She kept him waiting and when she finally emerged from the stage door he had been waylaid by Freddie Reynalde . |
| 24 | On Monday she finally knelt on the ground where he was killed and placed a wreath to his memory . |
| 25 | From the little Patrick had told her , and from what she already knew of the woman , she knew Madam Lundy was quite capable of having them killed as a lesson . |
| 26 | These she generously donated to the club 's raffle , so adding more pleasure to the afternoon . |
| 27 | Giggling like a child , rueful self-mockery etched on every line of her face , she applauded when a shout went up , joined in the disappointed groans when it proved a false alarm , commiserated with a rather determined little girl who had wandered into her own area of search and who thought she should have found one by now , and , thoroughly amused , by herself as much as by others , she whole-heartedly entered into the spirit of the thing . |
| 28 | They just started getting mad with her and chucking wooden dice that size at her , trying to hit her , and blackboard rubbers , smashing up the lightbulbs and everything , and in the end she just went in the store-cupboard , crying , so we locked her in . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ For my money she just came over the top of the hill from the Broughton side too fast . |
| 30 | That 's part of the trouble , part of why he is so lonely , but she just looked at the carpet in silence , at the dark place where Luke had once spilled black coffee . |