Example sentences of "[subord] she [verb] [pron] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clare levered the coins off the counter , and carried her cup out into the small enclosure , where she balanced it on an unsteady iron table , her feet cushioned by a carpet of litter . |
| 2 | She also wore large red-frame glasses , although she wore them on top of her head , as if to keep in place the shock of ginger-red red hair which she 'd rubber-banded into a pony tail down most of the length of her back . |
| 3 | Rune filled her glass , watching her as she half emptied it in one long swallow , waiting until she replaced it on the table before enquiring mildly , ‘ Then what happened ? ’ |
| 4 | cos she wanted it on sixty weeks |
| 5 | But these days she was stepping way out of line , coming on like she had something on him , like she was something more than a two-bit secretary . |
| 6 | If she kept everything on this level there would be no danger of his probing into her background . |
| 7 | I asked Dang if she knew anything on the subject of knitting machines . |
| 8 | MOTHER had a wonderful phrase if she felt something on That Was The Week That Was was too outspoken or perhaps a little too daring . |
| 9 | He wondered if she hung them on a china hand at night when she went to bed . |
| 10 | What happens if she does it on a weekend , will we just have a key ? |
| 11 | Madame Gebrec 's face became serious ; she took a sip of water , put down her glass and fiddled with the stem as if she had something on her mind . |
| 12 | Drew her , as surely as if she had her on a string , unresisting , across the grass . |
| 13 | I suppose she meant if she put me on the Pill she was letting me sleep around . |
| 14 | Billy would n't notice if she put it on the back seat . |
| 15 | At two , your child does n't realise that if she bangs someone on the head with a spade , it hurts . |
| 16 | She was especially furious that someone had succeeded in making her jump and yell like that because she prided herself on her toughness . |
| 17 | Without taking hold of me , she forced me to stand in one spot of my own will , while she whipped me on all sides . |
| 18 | It had a deep brim which widened towards the chin so that in profile the face would be hidden , and before she put it on Sarah brushed her unruly hair until it looked smooth , then she parted it in the middle and drew it tightly back . |
| 19 | When she passed him on the stairs his expression told her he scarcely knew she was there . |
| 20 | Nora called when she saw him on the road just ahead of her . |
| 21 | He loved being watched by Bathsheba , and felt warm with pride when she congratulated him on his speed . |
| 22 | When she tapped him on the arm he turned swiftly , his eyes suddenly narrowed at the sight of her . |
| 23 | So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air |
| 24 | Quickly though she dried them on her wrist . |
| 25 | She could never ignore them as she passed them on the street , and they , as if they sensed it , turned to her , picking her out at once from a throng of a hundred other pedestrians as the one who saw and heard them . |
| 26 | Hubert James Bainbridge , tenth earl of Donnington , called out to his daughter as she passed him on the opposite side of the street , but she did not hear him . |
| 27 | Liza did not know how she got back to her billet , only that she had bicycled so fast and furiously that , as she flung herself on her bed , she thought , grimly , that if anyone had reason to miscarry at that juncture it was she herself . |
| 28 | ‘ Does one , ’ asked Gay rhetorically , as she seated herself on the foot of the bed , ‘ quarrel with those to whom one is totally indifferent ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ As soon as she saw me on the doorstep I felt she knew something . |
| 30 | Her only comments at dinner afterwards as she gorged herself on tournedos , raspberries and cream and St Emilion were that Shylock was almost as beady about money as Alejandro and that Bassanio was a wimp . |