Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either he was dead straight , or else he was the sharpest operator-bar none , including the guy she 'd met on a singles ' holiday who 'd almost managed to convince her that he was on his final fling with only ninety days left to live — that she had ever encountered . |
| 2 | Rose knew that she had built on the foundations well and truly laid by Grandpa . |
| 3 | There lingered perhaps an echo of grimness , and an echo of something else : an expression she had seen on the faces of men who have just loaded ship for a voyage . |
| 4 | And when she had risen on the wings of ecstasy , then , the tip of his prying tongue alighted upon her dinky bottom-hole . |
| 5 | Too weak to do either , she had gone on the streets . |
| 6 | She could have bought each of the boys a pair of trainers for what she had spent on the watercolours . |
| 7 | She had worked on the canals during World War II . |
| 8 | Far beyond the point at which the mud became treacherous and from which Small Gains had never risen again , she stood poised on the handlebars of a sunken bicycle . |