Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got 'er took away in the end . |
| 2 | Tilda appeared with a ball of oozing clay in her arms which she flung down on the table . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She slouched back to the living room . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She made up for the difficulty by striking their fingers with a ruler when they erred , especially when learning the piano . |
| 9 | Turning from him , she made quickly for the door . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Stella kept them waiting a long time , and when she did appear she sprinted off down the street ahead of them . |
| 12 | In no mood now to finish her work , she stalked along to the kitchen . |
| 13 | She stalked off across the road , her hat jammed firmly on her head and her mouth set in a mutinous line . |
| 14 | And she stalked off to the foyer . |
| 15 | She stalked off into the house . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 " . |
| 18 | She flung the fork down , looking daggers at him , and continued : ‘ The house she lived in during the war received a direct hit , and for two days she was buried alive nursing a glass vase belonging to her mother . |
| 19 | She wondered whether she should ring Bridget — she still had n't spoken to her since leaving Oxford on Monday morning — but , with Jamie 's visit imminent , she shied away from the thought . |
| 20 | But she shied away from the idea . |
| 21 | Gently rocked by the smooth , rhythmic action of the calm sea , she gazed up at the sky above . |
| 22 | Nadine 's voice was calmer now , subdued and contemplative as she gazed up at the ceiling . |
| 23 | She gazed up at the ceiling with its painted blue flowers and wondered what Arnie was doing in Bradford . |
| 24 | She gazed unseeingly across the room , ashamed of her own weakness , all too aware of her vulnerability . |
| 25 | But , as she gazed around at the chintz sofas , and the French-provincial-style velvet-upholstered dining-room chairs — which she could see through a far open doorway — it occurred to Laura that maybe it was the only way to preserve such sumptuous furnishings on a shoreline likely to be damp and salty in the latter part of the year , while , outside the large windows , she could see automatic sprinklers drenching the fine green lawns that ran down to the beach . |
| 26 | She gazed dispiritedly into the mirror , and the face looking back was like that of a stranger , pale and hollow-eyed . |
| 27 | She gazed out of the window , rehearsing conversational gambits . |
| 28 | Kicking off her sandals , she curled her legs up beside her , running slim fingers absently along the silky golden skin of her shins , her grey eyes unfocused as she gazed out of the window . |
| 29 | She gazed out of the window aware now of how close they were to the centre of the city and Rune 's apartment . |
| 30 | She gazed out of the passenger window with unseeing eyes , hardly aware of the changing scenery as it flashed by , letting the music wash over her , concentrating on the familiar piece , losing herself in its beauty . |