Example sentences of "she [adv] [vb past] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But she only came on the scene recently ; there were others . |
| 3 | At first , she only worked on the household duties , especially the cooking . |
| 4 | On Monday she finally knelt on the ground where he was killed and placed a wreath to his memory . |
| 5 | Anyway , then she just sprawled on the floor and cried her heart out . |
| 6 | She quickly pulled on the silk briefs , following with matching silk bra , short green- and peach-flowered culotte-skirt and a sleeveless cropped T-shirt in a toning shade of leaf-green . |
| 7 | But she still remained on the outside . |
| 8 | One of Wigan 's local councillors , whose mother was active in the Labour Party women 's section , remembers that she also worked on the pit top . |
| 9 | When she had watered them she often sat on the ledge , simply staring at their thin greenness and absorbing the peace of the place . |
| 10 | Too many people , pulling in various directions , mostly clinging to a percentage of her value , made her into the rag doll she often appeared on the track . |
| 11 | ‘ You must listen to this , ’ said Hugo , and Valerie , out of simple love , stopped writing and listened , though Lover at the Gate was in mid-flow and she did not want her concentration spoiled : what she now put on the page was beginning to have the quality of automatic writing : she feared the cutting-in of her own rationality : doubt would come with it , and hesitation . |
| 12 | She wanted to bike along the road for a swim but after she finished dressing she simply sat on the edge of the bath and looked out of the window . |
| 13 | She almost choked on the stench of damp grain blowing up the hill . |
| 14 | She almost commented on the irony of the last charge he laid against Deanes . |
| 15 | She never walked on the beach , and without ever thinking about it he had assumed she did n't because she did n't want to spoil her shoes . |
| 16 | She publicly commented on the rift when she spoke to newspaper columnist Jean Rook : ‘ I 'm absolutely sick of the ‘ Wicked Stepmother ’ lark . |
| 17 | Like Rosa Lewis of the Cavendish Hotel , she too worked on the principle that the wealthiest person present should foot the bill ; payment was extracted by the command , ‘ Open your bead bag , Lottie . ’ |
| 18 | Norman Lamont , she thought , would look good in a gangster movie of the kind she occasionally watched on the telly , playing opposite George Raft or James Cagney . |