Example sentences of "she [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After a few seconds she focused on the crude childish characters , |
| 32 | She swallowed on the sudden constriction in her throat . |
| 33 | Fascinated , Dr Neil , who had opened the bag and was beginning to pull out strange-looking forceps and a bottle of chloroform , watched her lift up her black skirt to reveal a spotless white petticoat , from which she cut a large square which she placed on the grimy table , having first cleared to one side the used cups and plates covered in half-eaten food . |
| 34 | Before Cowley could add anything further , Roz Hatch appeared on the back lawn , carrying a tray of coffee , which she placed on the wide garden table . |
| 35 | and saying , what do you think cos of all the qualified ones at least she cos she worked on the elderly side . |
| 36 | After all , she worked on the nineteenth-century industrial novel for something like ten years , and even after publishing her book she went on accumulating ideas and insights about the subject . |
| 37 | Between January 1939 and June 1940 she worked on the French–Spanish border to alleviate the wretchedness of the defeated Spanish Republicans , only leaving on the last boat to sail for Britain from Bordeaux . |
| 38 | She pulled on the red wool dressing-gown hastily , glad of its warmth as she tiptoed to the bathroom , doing her best not to wake Penry . |
| 39 | She stumbled on the rough surface and Roman slid his arm round her waist , holding her against him . |
| 40 | She stumbled on the steady stone of the platform , and put a hand out to stop herself slamming into the curved wall . |
| 41 | Now she swayed on the towering waves to the north , and glittering on her prow were the slim copper tubes that had faced the ship of the Order that had brought them all from Rhodes to Cyprus . |
| 42 | He walked by her side without touching her , even when she tripped on the uneven turf , and she knew she had destroyed anything there might have been . |
| 43 | Sadly , she died on the 4th January 1991 . |
| 44 | She died on the thirteenth of March . |
| 45 | The man she saw on the other side was in his late thirties , his hair receding slightly , but what hair he did have was thick and lustrous and reached the collar of his shirt . |
| 46 | So much that she fell on the first excuse to put some distance between them . |
| 47 | She lay on the narrow white bed , staring out of the window at the gray-white clouds moving heavily across the October sky , and tried to organize her thinking . |
| 48 | In the attic room she lay on the narrow straw mattress listening to Sally 's snores , watching stars brighten in the charcoal sky and struggling to push away the growing sense of responsibility . |
| 49 | She lay on the heaving ground , frozen for fear of moving . |
| 50 | Hopefully as well as affectionately , he did so ; undressing her as she lay on the too-large hotel bed and stroking her shoulders and upper arms . |
| 51 | She should try to forget him , but the memory of their afternoon together had the power to make her cheeks rosy , and so they stayed while she put on the plainest gown which she could find in the wardrobe which she had left behind , with her personal maid , when she had pretended to go with the Parslows . |
| 52 | A voice behind her said , ‘ She means on the quiet , Ma . ’ |
| 53 | She leaned on the wide sill , looking out with longing at the part of Gullholm visible from the window . |
| 54 | She leaned on the armrest , trying not to think of the time , and watched the grim scenery go by . |
| 55 | A cow lashed out at her and she slipped on the wet floor . |
| 56 | Ten minutes later she appeared on the distant seashore . |
| 57 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
| 58 | Apart from her looks , and especially those deep green eyes , she was cheerful and friendly and seemingly unaware of the effect she had on the unsophisticated young men around her . |
| 59 | She said on the fourteenth , you know and give it to you then . |
| 60 | ‘ You have done well , Wilson , ’ she said on the last day in Siena . |