Example sentences of "she [vb past] on [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She skidded on a little way , then side-slipped back towards him . |
| 2 | Throughout her life she operated on the fruitful margin that arbitrarily separates the statutory from the voluntary body . |
| 3 | Marie was sure that this was because he did n't want to make his family out as ‘ better ’ than hers : he knew she lived on a scruffy council estate with a bad reputation . |
| 4 | She lived on an emotional see-saw , her jealousy matched by a sublime devotion to Charles . |
| 5 | She lived on the other side of Chelmsford and Alice took Catherine there in the carrying cot on the bus . |
| 6 | She lived on the fifth floor of a pre-war block , and when they went up in the lift she casually passed him her handbag and said , Hold this , and started to take her clothes off . |
| 7 | Her mother had ideas about her going to university , but Sandy knew her limitations ; she planned on a two-year course at a catering college , and had diplomatically said nothing about it yet . |
| 8 | She rode on a great crest of spittle , from one tongue , one watery taste , to another . |
| 9 | So too was Maud , the daughter of Holroyd Smith , who later recalled that auspicious day she rode on the top deck of car 5 after the opening ceremony and played with the chain of ‘ a very jolly Mayor ’ who sat next to her . |
| 10 | ‘ What happened to your other horse ? ’ she asked on a sudden impulse . |
| 11 | ‘ Promises ! ’ she exclaimed on a loving laugh , and thereafter put herself out to be the epitome of all she thought he would most dislike in a woman , shyly calling him darling whenever she had the chance . |
| 12 | President Marjorie Clarke expressed pleasure at seeing Kay Hampton back after her recent illness and she reported on the good progress being made by Sue Rankin and Miss Elliott who had also been ill . |
| 13 | She went steadily on , from foothold to foothold , only stopping to peel off her glove now and then and push a finger into the wet fringed mouth of a sea-anemone , but mostly she concentrated on the next step , the next handhold , with the sea on one side of her , the swell of grassy land the other . |
| 14 | She knelt on the greasy bed , feeling like something out of the Arabian Nights , and laughed when he pushed her backwards into the pool of oil . |
| 15 | She did n't know how long she knelt on the cold floor with her mother still and silent in her arms . |
| 16 | She knelt on the cold stone floor and carefully placed some coals on the dying embers in the grate . |
| 17 | ‘ Really and truly , ’ Laura told them both firmly , heedless of her smart dress and shoes as she knelt on the damp sand , her arms placed warmly about their two anxious figures . |
| 18 | ‘ Please , Naylor ! ’ she erupted on a panicky breath , and , when he hesitated and stared into her alarmed green eyes , ‘ Please d-do n't , ’ she stammered . |
| 19 | she stopped on the bottom stair and pressed taut fingers to her throbbing temples . |
| 20 | She stopped on the third step , and looked back at Pete . |
| 21 | Her car started to overheat and she stopped on the hard shoulder . |
| 22 | She did not beg her , as Cati did — Rosa had heard her — to help her be good , help her to be pure , and never have dirty thoughts or put her fingers in dirty places ; instead she fixed on the amber doe 's eyes that had gushed , above the hilt of a sword , which was studded with bright glass stones and stuck out from the statue 's brocade costume . |
| 23 | Another time she seemed to have nothing on under a grass skirt as she danced on a mirrored floor . |
| 24 | Irene Markham indicated for her to sit down and she perched on the very edge of an upright chair suddenly feeling quite miserable and wishing she had n't come . |
| 25 | She could see Keith , crouched over his papers , and she rapped on the living-room window to tell him to let her in . |
| 26 | Whenever she felt unwell or oppressed she embarked on a new course of treatment at the alternative medicine centre or ingested a new range of vitamins . |
| 27 | So she embarked on a four-month programme of erotic self-education and yoga . |
| 28 | I realized she relied on the extra money . |
| 29 | She knocked on a second door and opened it to reveal twenty children of about Flora 's age at old-fashioned desks with inkwells sunk into the top right-hand corners of the lids . |
| 30 | Fearing a tragedy of epic proportions — her mind leapt at once to Penini and then to Miss Arabel — she knocked on the open door and Mr Browning came through from the other room , so haggard and drawn in contrast to his morning self that once more she was convinced something dreadful had happened . |