Example sentences of "she [verb] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout her life she operated on the fruitful margin that arbitrarily separates the statutory from the voluntary body . |
| 2 | She lived on the other side of Chelmsford and Alice took Catherine there in the carrying cot on the bus . |
| 3 | She lived on the fifth floor of a pre-war block , and when they went up in the lift she casually passed him her handbag and said , Hold this , and started to take her clothes off . |
| 4 | She sits on the only chair in the room , by the night table . |
| 5 | So too was Maud , the daughter of Holroyd Smith , who later recalled that auspicious day she rode on the top deck of car 5 after the opening ceremony and played with the chain of ‘ a very jolly Mayor ’ who sat next to her . |
| 6 | President Marjorie Clarke expressed pleasure at seeing Kay Hampton back after her recent illness and she reported on the good progress being made by Sue Rankin and Miss Elliott who had also been ill . |
| 7 | She went steadily on , from foothold to foothold , only stopping to peel off her glove now and then and push a finger into the wet fringed mouth of a sea-anemone , but mostly she concentrated on the next step , the next handhold , with the sea on one side of her , the swell of grassy land the other . |
| 8 | She knelt on the greasy bed , feeling like something out of the Arabian Nights , and laughed when he pushed her backwards into the pool of oil . |
| 9 | She did n't know how long she knelt on the cold floor with her mother still and silent in her arms . |
| 10 | She knelt on the cold stone floor and carefully placed some coals on the dying embers in the grate . |
| 11 | ‘ Really and truly , ’ Laura told them both firmly , heedless of her smart dress and shoes as she knelt on the damp sand , her arms placed warmly about their two anxious figures . |
| 12 | she stopped on the bottom stair and pressed taut fingers to her throbbing temples . |
| 13 | She stopped on the third step , and looked back at Pete . |
| 14 | Her car started to overheat and she stopped on the hard shoulder . |
| 15 | She did not beg her , as Cati did — Rosa had heard her — to help her be good , help her to be pure , and never have dirty thoughts or put her fingers in dirty places ; instead she fixed on the amber doe 's eyes that had gushed , above the hilt of a sword , which was studded with bright glass stones and stuck out from the statue 's brocade costume . |
| 16 | Irene Markham indicated for her to sit down and she perched on the very edge of an upright chair suddenly feeling quite miserable and wishing she had n't come . |
| 17 | how she get on the bleeding bus with that ? |
| 18 | ‘ And Feargal said he would be down there that day , and I said — you know how you do — if you happen to see a dark green Morris Minor driven by this astonishingly beautiful girl with cropped dark hair , would you make sure she gets on the right road ? |
| 19 | She could see Keith , crouched over his papers , and she rapped on the living-room window to tell him to let her in . |
| 20 | I realized she relied on the extra money . |
| 21 | Fearing a tragedy of epic proportions — her mind leapt at once to Penini and then to Miss Arabel — she knocked on the open door and Mr Browning came through from the other room , so haggard and drawn in contrast to his morning self that once more she was convinced something dreadful had happened . |
| 22 | She swallowed on the sudden constriction in her throat . |
| 23 | Fascinated , Dr Neil , who had opened the bag and was beginning to pull out strange-looking forceps and a bottle of chloroform , watched her lift up her black skirt to reveal a spotless white petticoat , from which she cut a large square which she placed on the grimy table , having first cleared to one side the used cups and plates covered in half-eaten food . |
| 24 | Before Cowley could add anything further , Roz Hatch appeared on the back lawn , carrying a tray of coffee , which she placed on the wide garden table . |
| 25 | and saying , what do you think cos of all the qualified ones at least she cos she worked on the elderly side . |
| 26 | Between January 1939 and June 1940 she worked on the French–Spanish border to alleviate the wretchedness of the defeated Spanish Republicans , only leaving on the last boat to sail for Britain from Bordeaux . |
| 27 | She pulled on the red wool dressing-gown hastily , glad of its warmth as she tiptoed to the bathroom , doing her best not to wake Penry . |
| 28 | She stumbled on the rough surface and Roman slid his arm round her waist , holding her against him . |
| 29 | She stumbled on the steady stone of the platform , and put a hand out to stop herself slamming into the curved wall . |
| 30 | He walked by her side without touching her , even when she tripped on the uneven turf , and she knew she had destroyed anything there might have been . |