Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She read on to the story of holidays at Blackpool and Filey , a trip to London , and the gradually expanding horizons which writing brought to Walter . |
| 2 | As fast as her rheumatic legs would carry her , she toddled round to the Rope Walk , to the house where Eb and Josh and Ruth had been born and brought up . |
| 3 | As she taxied in to the small civilian terminal , Adam watched the three fighter planes ease their pointed noses skyward and climb at over thirty thousand feet a minute . |
| 4 | She slouched back to the living room . |
| 5 | At the end of the ceremony she tottered off to the bus , looking as if she had every intention of popping in to the local when she got home and livening everyone up with a steady dropping of ‘ To think our ‘ Ilda should go before me ’ remarks . |
| 6 | A sense of self-preservation cautioned her not to stick around , and before he could react she sprinted up to the house , feeling strangely exhilarated for the first time since she had left England . |
| 7 | In no mood now to finish her work , she stalked along to the kitchen . |
| 8 | And she stalked off to the foyer . |
| 9 | She loped over to the rocks and squatted , eyes still on the empty sky , fingers tugging at the lines like every day . |
| 10 | The sign on his door said Engaged , and she smiled as she crept up to the next landing , where she knew the keyhole window that overlooked his study . |
| 11 | No sound came from the garden , so she crept along to the gate and squeezed herself under . |
| 12 | She crept back to the door and pressed her ear against it , trying to figure out what was going on outside . |
| 13 | Finally , grabbing the bedcover and wrapping it round herself , she crept back to the head of the stairs . |
| 14 | Returning to the bedroom she crept back to the bed , raised the knife and without a moment 's thought drove it down into the sleeper 's chest . |
| 15 | Once or twice when she crept down to the turn in the stairs to see if it was safe to go and get something to eat , she was scared back by the murmur of unfamiliar voices , and saw three or four bicycles parked in the hall , leaning together with their pedals tangled in each others ' spokes , forming an intricate barrier to outside . |
| 16 | She rang the Sunday Herald number , placating her conscience with the thought that she might not have time to ring Tracey that evening after all ; but when she got through to the news desk , she discovered that he had taken the shuttle to Glasgow the morning before . |
| 17 | over that woman 's feet , cos you know what she did , she rang up Lynnette , she got through to the wrong extension Debbie answered , she slammed the phone down , and Debbie knew it were her she went mad |
| 18 | ‘ Where 's Tom ? ’ she noticed her brothers absence as soon as she got back to the house . |
| 19 | She had gone out to the drug store to get a bottle of milk for Maria 's bedtime cocoa , and when she got back to the suite , Bernie was in her section taking off Maria 's dress . |
| 20 | When she got back to the yard , however , Ricky had other ideas . |
| 21 | When she got back to the bench she saw that she had knocked over one of the shopping bags when she had stood up and a carton of eggs had dropped to the ground . |
| 22 | When she got back to the lodgings she sat down in her room and opened the letter . |
| 23 | The car was ready when she got back to the cottage . |
| 24 | She would phone her report to Philpott as soon as she got back to the hotel . |
| 25 | She got back to the Lycée at five past eleven ; the doors were not yet shut , and she crept in safely , under the protection of a large party returned from the Opera . |
| 26 | When she got back to the college , she went to the library and looked once more at all the reference books pertaining to Sebastian Denham , in the hope of finding the nature of his wife 's professional distinctions , but she was not successful . |
| 27 | When she got back to the kitchen , Finn was reading an old newspaper , seated on the table and eating dry chunks of bread gouged from a loaf in the crumb of which his fingers had left grey prints . |
| 28 | She decided that as soon as she got back to the flat , she 'd call him and apologize . |
| 29 | She bought a few bits and pieces from the post office and was feeling thoroughly deflated by the time she got back to the house . |
| 30 | When she got back to the flats , the leather jacket had gone . |