Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I love you , ’ she whispered under the Muzak . |
| 2 | Her confidence and conviction that she was somebody special served her well when she applied for the UN job . |
| 3 | Again it would not matter if the person were a US citizen or not , so long as he or she lived in the US the classification would stand . |
| 4 | At the start she would rehearse arranging them with the nun so that she would do it well when she got to the Hogans , but as the weeks went by she grew in confidence . |
| 5 | The town was just coming alive , as she got to the Silver Shuriken . |
| 6 | With him she rode across the Rockies and made two expeditions , in the Far East and Africa , on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society , to study tribal languages . |
| 7 | It was not the horrendous drop that had frightened her as she rode in the Land Rover . |
| 8 | Dressed in an embroidered , peasant blouse from Oxfam and a frilly skirt , she stabbed at the Turkey carpet with her stiletto heels sending up little whorls of dust and leaving pockmarks in her wake . |
| 9 | She passed beside the Amy Roy but there was no sign of life on board and she pressed on . |
| 10 | Mrs Fry was kind , she helped at the WRVS . |
| 11 | He was an American airman and she moved to the United States . |
| 12 | Her reputation grew and in 1968 , with four regular classes and a group of teenagers who formed the nucleus of an adult training centre , she moved to the Erimus Centre in College Road , Thorntree . |
| 13 | They married , and she moved to the States , where — in defiance of sexism , and her uncle Cyril , who once accosted her in a New York club with the words , ‘ Does your father know what you 're doing ? ’ — she became one of the most highly regarded piano players in Manhattan . |
| 14 | She reviewed for the Sunday papers and appeared on television in a programme called Talking After Hours , giving her views on art , morals , current affairs . |
| 15 | She trained with the GLC , then the largest of the country 's local authorities . |
| 16 | Knowing she had to support herself , they paid her while she trained at the Manchester school . |
| 17 | Murray stayed with his family for several weeks in Germiston when she trained in the United States last year and her fiancee , Tom Mooney , returned the compliment when Strang was in Scotland last summer . |
| 18 | Then she darted to the Jonquil … |
| 19 | A pupil of Gustav Holst at St Paul 's Girls School , Ramsey was devoted to music and as a flautist she played in the Cumberland Symphony Orchestra when she went to live in Cumbria . |
| 20 | Feeling self-conscious at entering a pub by herself , she slunk into the Markham Arms , a glamorous tavern in the King 's Road where men-about-Chelsea relaxed in the evening . |
| 21 | As she cycled across the Pariser Platz on the Eastern side , her shrieks of joy echoed in the huge Doric columns of the Brandenburg Gate . |
| 22 | From 1861 to 1863 she studied at the Kensington School of Art . |
| 23 | She studied at the Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women , and then at University College , Aberystwyth , and at the extramural School of Medicine for Women , Edinburgh . |
| 24 | She drove to the Heathfield estate , to Mr and Mrs Budd 's bungalow , and to Seaway Road , to Mrs Hutchings ' , and then to the elderly poor of Boughs Lane . |
| 25 | Following replenishment , she sailed through the Panama Canal on June 10. 1942 for San Diego and , on July 1 , left the California naval base escorting a convoy bound for New Zealand and Guadalcanal . |
| 26 | She came to the Oxford Union to share her Christian message . |
| 27 | She explained how they used to steal food , and how hard it was when she came to the Hogans , her first job , to realise she did n't have to take any stray biscuit or a fistful of sugar and put it into her apron . |
| 28 | She came to the C.R. group the three of them belonged to , and looked , and listened , and said nothing . |
| 29 | Rose , for her part , thought that McAllister talked funny , and when Sally-Anne had told her that she came from the United States of America she had stared at her as though she had said that she came from the moon . |
| 30 | I had never seen a bank nurse before and assumed she came from the Natwest . |