Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are you listening to me ? ’ he demanded when she failed to laugh at the right point . |
| 2 | Two years later she applied to nurse in the Boer War and died from typhoid fever at Simonstown , aged 37 . |
| 3 | A baby was the last thing she expected to see in the servants ' quarters , especially as Rosa looked far beyond her child-bearing years . |
| 4 | Then at 3am she smelled burning in the sitting room and opened the door to get the smoke out before waking her husband . |
| 5 | However , this morning Beth Christie was brighter than usual ; she planned to shop for the dinner party she was holding later in the week . |
| 6 | Along with a Chinese freelance photographer , Cavell had called for her that morning and whisked her round some of Taipei 's famous landmarks , the all-marble Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial , a colourful Buddhist temple , and the Grand Hotel with its magnificent Chinese architecture , pausing only long enough at each for the young man to take the photos that would help introduce Maria to the Taipei public , before escorting her back to the apartment and approving the outfit she planned to wear to the dinner the radio station was hosting for the rest of the local media that night . |
| 7 | Speaking in the bar of a five-star hotel in Marbella , Yasmin Gibson , a bit-part actress , said that even though her daughter Gemma was now in the care of the local authority , she planned to stay on the Costa del Sol until the end of her holiday in two weeks . |
| 8 | By the time that was over Constanza was in a fatalistic mood , she agreed to wait until the autumn . |
| 9 | But in the end she agreed to go with the Pitts to the local police station to express concern about the absentees . |
| 10 | The lift they entered was crowded , forcing them to stand close together , the brush of Luke 's jacket sleeve against her bare arm adding to the difficulty of trying to sort out what she was going to say to him before she agreed to get into the car with him . |
| 11 | Prunskiene , who had resigned as Prime Minister on Jan. 8 , 1991 [ see p. 37944 ] , consistently denied the accusations ( made in April — see p. 38880 ) , claiming that a document bearing her signature in which she agreed to work for the KGB was a forgery and that the trial was politically motivated . |
| 12 | I went to see a debt counsellor and she agreed to come to the bank with me . |
| 13 | But how come she got invited by the Reagans … ? |
| 14 | ‘ I was just telling you about this girl and what her mother said on the night before she got married to the sailor . ’ |
| 15 | It 's a week away she got washing at the moment . |
| 16 | She became frightened by the effects . |
| 17 | The glass of wine went quickly to each head , for Alix 's family was teetotal , and Liz 's alcohol consumption to that date comprised perhaps three glasses of brown sherry and one ( celebrating her A levels with her teacher ) of Liebfraumilch : Esther seemed better connected with drink as with friends , but even she became confiding under the mild influence . |
| 18 | Her anxiety about the visit disappeared once she became acclimatized to the appaling conditions confronting her . |
| 19 | She became known as the Chinese ‘ Green ’ leader . |
| 20 | Still staring at him , she became distracted by the dark hair that curled damply across his forehead , at the almost delicate arch of his eyebrows , the aquiline nose , the beautiful mouth , and then back to the bright , amused mockery in his blue , blue eyes . |
| 21 | She was aware that these could be developed by investigative work , but once she became immersed in the new curriculum , struggling on occasions to keep her head above water , she began to lose sight of these objectives , focusing instead on the more familiar content objectives . |
| 22 | Unsurprisingly , she became caught in the wires , but her owner had seen what had happened , and immediately raced to the rescue . |
| 23 | During and after World War I , she became associated with the Friends ' War Victims Relief Committee . |
| 24 | The Italian thinks that if he can ever sing Puccini the climax of his life has been reached ; but even so , with all the omissions that can be charged against Italy — such that as a musical country she ceased to exist after the seventeenth century and has certainly reached deliquescence with Messrs Malpiero , Pratella and Co — she even now does produce from time to time singers who are not merely singers but great artists , as Battistini who , at over 60 , is an example for those who can take it of the extent to which a voice can be preserved in all its beauty when it is used as a musical instrument and not as a fog siren or a pair of nutcrackers . ’ |
| 25 | She bent to tug at the covering , found it securely fastened . |
| 26 | Indeed , the slogan of the Partido por la Democracia ( PPD ) — the party she helped found after the demise of the Pinochet regime — is ‘ Democracy in the Country and at Home ’ . |
| 27 | On Monday morning , she reported to work at the Swift building on Des Voeux Road . |
| 28 | She tried to gloss over the humiliation of it . |
| 29 | She tried to pray through the fever , feeling her head trapped in a web of red-hot wires , but there was no sign of them . |
| 30 | She tried to lean on the field . |