Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've done it , ’ she whispered into the little cave made by her fingers . |
| 2 | ‘ Sweet heaven , ’ she whispered to the empty car , ‘ please let me reach the main road safely . |
| 3 | Nothing in her life so far had prepared Laura for the shock she experienced at the sheer animal magnetism projected by the stranger . |
| 4 | Having no book or magazine with her , she read from the opposite wall an advertisement for duty-free goods obtainable at Heathrow , one for travelling very cheaply by boat to Holland , another was deciphering an invitation to office temps couched in a kind of code , when the train drew into Finchley Road . |
| 5 | The next year she applied for the nursing course . |
| 6 | There was an evening to pass before the midnight flight to London and , despite Tucker 's adamancy that Miss Kennedy would n't see her , she taxied to the Big Bamboo on Wulff Road . |
| 7 | He was looking at her for help — he was pleading , through his fury , for the assistance of his sister … it was just that , in his youth , he could not control the emotion in his face , and she quivered with the imagined rage , only now recognizing the desperation in his eyes . |
| 8 | She tottered through the open door . |
| 9 | Throughout her life she operated on the fruitful margin that arbitrarily separates the statutory from the voluntary body . |
| 10 | She made for the new extension , hoping she had imagined that speculative look in her young assistant 's eye , and feeling that she 'd better let him think the Palmer & Pearson file had dropped on her desk while he was absent on Friday . |
| 11 | She fought for the working class she fought for education she fought for everything to benefit the community she was a wonderful person ! |
| 12 | She lived on the other side of Chelmsford and Alice took Catherine there in the carrying cot on the bus . |
| 13 | She lived in the Palestinian camp at Rashidiyeh , a wretched four square miles of breeze-block huts and cabins relieved only by the occasional tree , a straggling plant hanging from a poorly made brick wall and an open sewer that snaked uneasily down the centre of the mud roads . |
| 14 | She lived in the present tense of the school with its totally absorbing pattern of routine and minor rebellion . |
| 15 | Only she lived in the posh part , called Hove , and whenever people said ‘ You live in Brighton , do n't you ? ’ it was normal to reply ‘ Hove , actually ’ until it almost had become the name , Hove-Actually . |
| 16 | She gazed into the middle distance . |
| 17 | Theda 's deep grey eyes grew dark with distress as she gazed into the vicious blackness of Lady Merchiston 's own . |
| 18 | Her hands dropped to her sides as she gazed into the cracked mirror . |
| 19 | Her deeply lined face was creased into a smile as she gazed at the tiny ear in her hand . |
| 20 | She gazed at the golden-haired figure standing so tall and so proud in the centre of the stage . |
| 21 | She gazed at the new arrangement , absent-mindedly reached for the tea Julia had placed near her elbow and drank . |
| 22 | She gazed at the stubby brick lighthouse , which was over two hundred years old , and had been built to guide the fishing boats home safely to harbour . |
| 23 | Her brows puckered in a frown , she gazed at the deserted coach , and she did n't realise that Roman had left her until he returned , a furious expression on his face . |
| 24 | As she listened to the playback she gazed at the naked corpse . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh dear ’ , said Theodora , as she gazed after the familiar vehicle . |
| 26 | Instinctively she sought through the whole cosmos for Fenna , and knew she would not find him . |
| 27 | ‘ Sixteen coffees , ’ she announced in the cool voice that they seemed to be using to each other , ‘ followed by — er — ’ Consulting her list , she continued , ‘ Six rounds of toast , five boiled eggs with soldiers … ’ |
| 28 | Benny moved along with a strong sense of adventure , and had to resist whistling a jaunty tune as she crept through the scrubby vegetation that surrounded the cemetery . |
| 29 | All those years before television , she glowed like the Ready Brek kid , safe with her angels all the way to school . |
| 30 | She got into the warm interior of the taxi , reeking of tobacco and ancient loves , and fell asleep at once . |