Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She admitted to no friends amongst the small clutch of camp officers ' wives at Barashevo . |
| 2 | Tennis , walking , dancing with the older women she met in the villages . |
| 3 | The youngster was living with her former foster parents when she applied to the courts for the divorce . |
| 4 | Clutching the hot loaf to her chest she fled , expecting every minute to hear shouts of : ‘ Thief … thief … ’ as she threaded between the wharves arriving at a narrow lane not far from Marsh Street where the press gangs roamed . |
| 5 | She plunged into the crowds , who had turned out in their thousands to greet her , as though she had been doing it all her life . |
| 6 | So she spent almost all her time in her bedroom , which she shared with the children . |
| 7 | As Magee watched she tottered down the steps and wandered off down Duncannon Street in the direction of the Strand . |
| 8 | Slamming her feet down angrily , she made for the mailbags . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , and Miss Connor , ’ the receptionist called out as she made for the stairs , ‘ there was a delivery for you this afternoon . ’ |
| 10 | The roars and cheers of the crowd covered any sound she made and , like a wraith , she made for the stairs , sweating even in the bleak February cold at the thought of who she might meet in the unknown upstairs . |
| 11 | She made for the fires and the sudden yellow flashes that lit up the central complex of buildings . |
| 12 | As she made for the doors she was suddenly halted by the realization that she had no money with her . |
| 13 | The air between them suddenly seemed static , as she fought for the words to justify her decision . |
| 14 | She fought through the days with relentless activity , aiming to get thoroughly tired , so that she could sleep . |
| 15 | She stalked into the teachers ' room and returned with her cane . |
| 16 | The link was a woman : she lived with the allies , raised their children , arranged further marriages between them and her brothers ' children . |
| 17 | She had n't actually intended to go in , but the window display caught her eye and , without thinking , she wandered in , to look , certainly not to buy , until she realised with a pang of guilt , as she gazed at the racks of colourful fashions , that everything in her wardrobe must be hopelessly out of date . |
| 18 | She gazed at the pages as Carolyn read , as if she could see the events unfolding there . |
| 19 | Christie sat in the dock yesterday gently nodding as if she agreed with the judges ' decision to increase her sentence by 80 per cent . |
| 20 | However , she attended the hearing and told the coroner she agreed with the police report . |
| 21 | Finally , hugging the bottle 's warmth to her chest , she checked on the bolts of the front and back doors and made her way up the uncarpeted stairs to bed . |
| 22 | She rode past the fires . |
| 23 | She translated from the classics and the French symbolist poets . |
| 24 | Nothing could take that from her , and so she clung to the memories . |
| 25 | I forgot to give it to Madge when she asked for the keys . |
| 26 | ‘ Shall I open yours ? ’ she asked with a clenched-teeth smile . |
| 27 | He says she asked about the stresses of final exams , and they said they had n't got a job to go to anyway . |
| 28 | She passed over the trays of sapphires , of rubies , of diamonds ; she chose an emerald . |
| 29 | It made her flick her eyelids as she passed between the tables . |
| 30 | As she passed through the lights she turned right into a small service road which ran alongside a few small shops . |