Example sentences of "she [vb -s] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She goes up the fire escape and looks into the upstairs rooms . |
| 2 | She goes down the Railway |
| 3 | She understands fully the permanence of the bonds which link men and women to the stars , to Venus , to Jupiter , the Black Moon , the Dragon , her understanding is her passion etc , etc . ’ |
| 4 | She holds out the tray . |
| 5 | I think she thought Emily would be able to earn her living as a governess or lady 's companion , in the end , but she 's too idle and she has n't the wit . |
| 6 | She scoops up the rest of the cakes , shoves them into some recess within her tatters , rushes out of the cubicle and disappears into the crowd . |
| 7 | She uses only the pinhole camera or , as it was known in pre-photographic times , the camera obscura . |
| 8 | She says hopefully the hunger strike will achieve something . |
| 9 | She reckons up the change over an' over like she do n't trust me , ’ I admitted reluctantly . |
| 10 | When the mouthbrooder picks up her eggs she gathers up the Synodontis eggs with them which she incubates inside her mouth along with her own fry until they are released as tiny replicas of their natural parents — possibly after preying on the cichlid fry while they are inside her mouth . |
| 11 | She spits out the word like she splutters the word ‘ Jew ’ . |
| 12 | She shows how the individual ( artist ) can oppose corporate image-making by using what lies around at home , plus the traditional methods of parody , satire and humour : of taking an image " too far " or nowhere near far enough . |
| 13 | And where she blows up the lorry . |
| 14 | Having been left by her husband in his urge for voyages abroad , Erendis retreats to the centre of Númenor , away from the sea , where she hears only the bleating of sheep . |
| 15 | In some cultures the mother proceeds to the status of a matriarch , when she takes on the authority of mother to the whole extended family or tribe . |
| 16 | Feeny laughs , whispers , ‘ Cocorico ’ ; they whisper back and she takes up the thread where she left off back in the bathroom : |
| 17 | Immediately after doing so , before her new skin has had a chance to harden , she is particularly vulnerable , so before the event , she ties down the door from the inside with ropes of silk . |
| 18 | In a dozen more highly gesticulatory paintings where angry reds again predominate , she paints both the agony and the ecstasy of childbirth and pregnancy . |
| 19 | 2 She thrusts out the leg , pushing the hips into the kick and using a footsword to break the boards . |
| 20 | She draws back the sheet |
| 21 | Like Gumperz , she examines initially the use made by speakers of linguistic variation , rather than following Labov in examining , in terms of speaker characteristics , the patterning of variable elements in the system ( cf. 1.2 ; 8.4.1 ) . |
| 22 | She pulls off the shirt and jeans , goes to the sink , and slaps cold water over her face and shoulders . |
| 23 | She pulls out the plug , and the water drains , so Miranda can not swim any more , and lies there , feeling the water suck away from her . |
| 24 | Me friend over in Norway , she said she 's she got over there and sat down and she thought , yes , she 's got the Complete Works of Shakespeare , I 'll have a whale of a time trying to read it , she picks up the book , it 's all in Norwegian . |
| 25 | ‘ She attends a boarding school and every night when I phone her she asks how the dog is and whether we have fed her . |
| 26 | But Rita in her own department has got the document that she sends so the researcher does n't have to take the bit of paper round to everybody and get their research approval form signed . |
| 27 | She notes down the time and what she saw : |
| 28 | I refer to figures published by the Minister on 12 November , in which she sets out the number of prisoners currently held in police cells . |
| 29 | with new men she moves down the Sound |
| 30 | She sums up the situation by saying that the reconstituted family is never the same as the biological family . |