Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv prt] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She laid down the printing frame that she held . |
| 2 | Aunt Tossie had a faint dribble of desire at the corners of her mouth when , at length , she laid down the slate pencil and rose from her chair to face Mrs Geary , her companion in what was to be an immortal triumph : its finale that most acceptable of puddings before diets and regimens were conceived : a really beautiful Trifle . |
| 3 | As she wiped down the kitchen wall , she could see herself sitting on the half-buried block where she and her Dad used to picnic , watching the — |
| 4 | Without answering , she got out the frying pan and began to do him bacon and eggs . |
| 5 | She wondered what they would make of it as she got out the vacuum cleaner and started to run it over the drawing-room carpet . |
| 6 | After two years of hectic creative activity , Jill Garner left the FYT team where , as Support and Resources Officer , she headed up the Jubilee Year programme and Development Appeal . |
| 7 | She slipped on a thin gauze nightgown , and , despite the clammy , stifling heat of the night , she could n't help shivering with exhaustion as she drew back the bed cover , and crawled gratefully between the thin cotton sheets . |
| 8 | As she roared down the village street , Werewolf unlocked the BMW . |
| 9 | She slammed back the driving seat and looked at the unfamiliar dashboard with all its foreign signals . |
| 10 | Mrs Stych was singing as she came up the garden path . |
| 11 | Carrie sang too , as she skipped down the railway track ; sang under her breath and laughed to herself . |
| 12 | She handed over the pawn ticket . |
| 13 | As she hitched up the fox fur draped about her neck , she was tempted now and then to give them a regal wave but decided that to sit back in dignified hauteur was more fitting to her role . |
| 14 | She hurtled down the north-west turret staircase with a reckless disregard for life and limb , and emerged at the point where she had entered the hall earlier that night — was it only hours ago ? |
| 15 | She hunted down the telephone number through directory enquiries and then rang . |
| 16 | She pulled out the kitchen trash hopper , a laundry-basket kind of affair on squeaky castors , and set Donald on his journey to duck heaven by dropping him into the grey plastic liner . |
| 17 | When it steadied she pulled out the bath plug and knelt to hold her protesting head under the running water from the tap . |
| 18 | She gathered her straggly hair into a bun at the back of her head , holding it with her left hand while she pulled down the polo neck of her thin jumper . |
| 19 | Floating down into the depths , she heard the kitchen door into the back garden close the very moment she switched on the hall light . |
| 20 | She switched on the wall light over the table rather than the bright central strip , hoping it would look coaler ; but it only seemed to bring up the shadows . |
| 21 | She switched on the bedside lamp and looked dazedly at the clock . |
| 22 | By rights she should be sleeping the sleep of the just by now , she realised despondently as she switched on the bedside lamp — instead she 'd been reliving everything over and over in her mind . |
| 23 | She switched on the bedroom radio , tuning to her new station 's waveband — her competitive curiosity had prompted her to attempt an assessment of the English-language opposition earlier — and discovering a laid-back DJ playing jazz and fusion between taking a few calls from night-owl listeners , their character common around the world — shift-workers , troubled or lonely insomniacs , late-night revellers and cramming students . |
| 24 | She switched on the vacuum cleaner . |
| 25 | She switched on the car radio and hummed to the beat of the pop music . |
| 26 | As soon as she drew up to the roundabout at the top of Woodstock Road , she found herself in traffic which stretched as far as the eye could see , and when she switched on the car radio , she discovered that the only sound it would make was an assortment of squeaks and crackles . |
| 27 | She switched off the alarm clock , then lit the fire that had been laid the night before . |
| 28 | She switched off the CD player , went into the bedroom , checked that her black dress , red jacket and red shoes were spotless for the morning : tucked a red and gold scarf and a couple of gilt bracelets into her bag to wear in the evening and went to bed . |
| 29 | Throwing down the last of the whisky with a shudder , she switched off the bedside lamp and burrowed down beneath the covers , already aware that the alcohol was having an effect , sending tentacles of warmth through her veins . |
| 30 | With that thought , once Peter had left she switched out the bedside lamp and burrowed down . |