Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] there [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 She 'd stood there at the door where he was such a short time before .
2 She sank down on to the bed and glanced at the writing pad that she 'd tossed there after a brief effort to write to Arnie .
3 So she decided to walk there from the farm at Flintcomb-Ash on a Sunday , her only free day .
4 It was a long while since she had visited her old home , and longer still since she had lived there as a girl .
5 She had stood there like a damsel in a high tower , imprisoned by her own fears , and had said imperiously , ‘ Here I am .
6 Of course ; he did n't know that she had stood there in the darkness and listened to the proofs of his betrayal .
7 On the window was a blue-and-red peacock she had stencilled there on a wet afternoon when the garden was blanked out with grey rain .
8 Knowing it impossible to sleep again , she had lain there for a while and listened to the silence of sleep throughout the house .
9 She wanted to lie there in the dark , alone with the thoughts she had had to suppress for so much of the day .
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