Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incident with the car had taken her mind off Luke , but as she changed into a housecoat a sudden idea flashed across her mind . |
| 2 | Embarrassed , she drew from a shelf a book on Møn . |
| 3 | She woke with a start the next morning , confused and disorientated . |
| 4 | The killer stole £8,500 she withdrew from an account the previous day . |
| 5 | When she walked into a village the Africans would often clap their hands in a reverential way . |
| 6 | She brought as a present a portrait of Mother Mary as she appeared to the children at Fatima , executed by someone of sentimental disposition , and a statue of the Virgin Mary , the mould fashioned by someone of a melancholy and austere frame of mind . |
| 7 | In New Hope Copse she saw at a distance a man holding the hand of a small child , inclining to her the way adults do when walking with little ones , while his free arm swept the air to possess the oaks , the beeches , the ash . |
| 8 | Oh Deborah was moaning cos she went to a party the other last one this week , I think at the beginning of the week , and the had Joey the clown and Mr Nuttey , she said oh I 'd like them , but Sue said she went sort of a bit earlier and see how they got on and eh , she said oh it was n't the same at five , they did n't respond and . |
| 9 | She felt for an instant the brush of his breath against her hair . |
| 10 | Or no , do n't tell me , ’ she denied with a scowl every bit as horrible as her son 's , ‘ he 's adopted another blasted lame duck and has got him living here with him ! |
| 11 | Anyway , she cited as an example the fact that it warmed her heart to hear the fledgling ringing the hospital every day to find out how you were . " |