Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The therapist also suggested that Pamela should tell her parents more about what she was doing ; for example , what time she planned to come home in the evening .
2 Joseph noticed that she avoided passing close to the iron grilles closing off the between-deck areas of the ship and when she reached the stern she gazed into the jungle for a moment , then closed her eyes and lifted her face to the gentle warmth of the morning sun .
3 She became bogged down by the very size of the country , the lengthy supply lines , her inability to have her army spread thickly on the ground , the increasingly effective guerilla warfare waged by the Chinese communists , as well as by debilitating rivalries within the Japanese army itself .
4 On the following Monday she proposed to go back to the job she had taken to make it financially possible for Peter and her to buy their little home .
5 She tried looking out of the window to the hospital 's green lawns and the tall eucalypts that stood motionless against a gloriously blue August sky , but found that looking away seemed too impolite .
6 When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped .
7 Even though she tried to listen out for the sound of a returning car , the castle and the road leading up to it remained as silent as the grave .
8 She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood .
9 She tried to make out from the hill , as she jogged down the track , whether the ferryboat was plying among the craft in the harbour .
10 When she tried to get out of the passenger door , he struck her again and called her more names . ’
11 I talked to Mum , and she tried to think back to the day she met Elaine , and she remembered I was born in a nursing home in Birkleigh .
12 She tried to peer out of the peephole in her blind .
13 She tried to catch up with the machine , but she did n't want to attract any undue attention from the IMC troopers , and the thing seemed determined to ignore her .
14 She tried lying down on the bare mattress , but the whole place felt cold and close .
15 A teenage girl was seriously injured when a distress flare she found washed up on the beach at Margate , Kent , exploded in her pocket .
16 At the church she 'd ended up in the cliche/1 situation of being frozen out by Marius ' relatives .
17 She 'd moved over into the makeup chair and had been studying her own face in the mirror .
18 She 'd moved over by the window and had been reaching for a chair , but now she stopped .
19 Once she 'd stepped on to the platform , there was nothing to do but turn , step , step , turn and nowhere to look but straight ahead .
20 Nobody knew much about her , she 'd turned up in the town as a sort of companion-housekeeper to an old lady who had a house in Morrab Close , a Mrs Armitage — a widow .
21 Instead of liking the look of the water , wading in carefully and finding it was wonderful , she 'd tumbled in at the deep end .
22 Strange that David should be coming along at that very moment that she 'd emerged on to the main road .
23 Twisting the key in the ignition , she wished , belatedly , that she 'd struggled more in the barn , been more scathing …
24 She 'd stayed down in the lane with a sullen look on her face .
25 And who had told him that she 'd stayed late at the office ?
26 ‘ The doctor will be here soon , and I 'm sure — ’ She turned as the door behind her opened , and the curly-haired doctor she 'd seen briefly in the dining-room came softly towards the bed .
27 She 'd seen enough from the taxi to tell that every house , cottage , shop and inn was simply full of character , each different but still in the traditional Cotswold style she was beginning to recognise .
28 Close-to and without their performance wigs , these two hardly seemed to connect with anyone that she 'd seen out on the stage less than an hour before ; then they 'd been all front , carnival vamps , not so much real human beings as fantasy figures with hidden human operators .
29 A strong , dark , classical face , with a cleft chin and that peculiarly haunting quality she 'd seen only in the paintings of old masters .
30 She 'd stood there at the door where he was such a short time before .
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