Example sentences of "she [verb] [vb pp] there [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd stood there at the door where he was such a short time before . |
| 2 | She sank down on to the bed and glanced at the writing pad that she 'd tossed there after a brief effort to write to Arnie . |
| 3 | It had seemed an expedient course of action at the time , as she 'd waited there in her kitchen , in the late afternoon dark , for Wakelate and his client to return to the house . |
| 4 | She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington . |
| 5 | It was a long while since she had visited her old home , and longer still since she had lived there as a girl . |
| 6 | She had stood there like a damsel in a high tower , imprisoned by her own fears , and had said imperiously , ‘ Here I am . |
| 7 | Of course ; he did n't know that she had stood there in the darkness and listened to the proofs of his betrayal . |
| 8 | ( She had gone there for fitting out and trials of Aberporth . ) |
| 9 | As a girl in Spain she had gone there with her mother and when later she became Empress of France , as the wife of Napoleon III , she made him go there too . |
| 10 | Her grandfather 's anger at her late return from Bristol — especially as she had gone there with Marshall — had been explosive . |
| 11 | She had settled there to some extent by the time I was released and I did n't think it was good to disrupt her again . |
| 12 | On the window was a blue-and-red peacock she had stencilled there on a wet afternoon when the garden was blanked out with grey rain . |
| 13 | Knowing it impossible to sleep again , she had lain there for a while and listened to the silence of sleep throughout the house . |