Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stalked off like a scarecrow in a rage . |
| 2 | She lived in as a bride . |
| 3 | She got up with a sigh . |
| 4 | She straightened up with a smile . |
| 5 | Erm mm I ca n't remember , Alan and Josie 's daughter down the road , erm she passed out as a nurse from Queens a while ago and you know what students are in general , nurses in particular , there was , you would expect , one hell of a party when the exam results were public what came out of the the party was when she got a job as a nurse . |
| 6 | Sobbing and screaming , she thrashed about like a woman possessed . |
| 7 | The vaguely fluttering nerves suddenly crystallised themselves into a hard painful little knot in her stomach and she bent over with a groan . |
| 8 | She moved out for a while , but carried on cleaning for her ; and then when she married , she moved back in again , and had her first child there . |
| 9 | At first she managed from their home up in Yorkshire ; later , as the pace grew more hectic , she moved down to a suite at the Adelaide in London . |
| 10 | In Sargent [ 1990 ] The Guardian , 3 July , Boreham J at Leeds Crown Court is reported as saying : " You were so negligent as to be reckless as to this woman 's welfare " , by pumping so much oxygen into her during an operation that she swelled up like a Michelin man . |
| 11 | Marion 's legs collapsed under her ; she sank down on a rock , and wept . |
| 12 | She sank down into a chair and watched as Craig knelt before the fire , building it back into a glowing warmth . |
| 13 | When the carriage was out of sight , she sank down into a chair and put her hands over her face . |
| 14 | She tiptoed out with a blanket and tucked it around him . |
| 15 | As she flopped down in a corner seat , Constance looked at the man pushing her case on to the rack opposite . |
| 16 | One day , she drove on to a roundabout , and could not figure out which exit to take . |
| 17 | That was below the belt , but instead of stopping there while she was still in one piece , she drove on in a high , hectoring voice , ‘ Do n't you think your daughter deserves a little rest instead of going home to slave for you after she 's been working all week ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll never believe he done it , ’ said Mrs Flaherty , when she came round for a cup of tea and a slice of the action , ‘ not if he 's convicted by a dozen juries , and do n't tell me he 'll get a fair trial in the current climate of opinion , not unless they pick twelve men the same size and true . |
| 19 | So , after licking another 485 stamps , she came up with a manifest of eight people , one Sloth , Gan Moondork ( one of Nintendo 's escaped bionic mutations ) and Gan 's woman ( the Rubber Dummy ) . |
| 20 | And she came up with a list which are pleas from the switchboard supervisor . |
| 21 | She came up with a routine for visiting the tables , and even managed to empty a few ashtrays . |
| 22 | She ducked down behind the table and emerged with the little box her employer had displayed so proudly , then raked around in the back of a drawer until she came up with a key . |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps she did , and when she came up against a brick wall she turned to me . |
| 24 | She came back with a start . |
| 25 | She came back as a ghost . ’ |
| 26 | When she came back from a date with the Prince she would be full of sympathy for him uttering phrases like ‘ they work him too hard ’ or ‘ it 's appalling the way they push him around . ’ |
| 27 | Then one time she came back from a job and had a trendy , short cut . |
| 28 | She came in with a light , wary step , made a deep obeisance just within the doorway , and then advanced to the prince 's chair and sank at his feet , touching her lips to his proffered hand . |
| 29 | She came out with a Christmas cactus . |
| 30 | The maid had cleared away , and now she came out with a jug of wine and two glasses . |