Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv prt] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know how she got up to fix the ceiling chains . ’ |
| 2 | When much later in the afternoon she got up to get the tea a tearing sound was heard as her nice blue overall parted with the gummy chair — she let out a burst of laughter . |
| 3 | Ross had no right to automatically expect her to suddenly become an efficient home-maker , she grumbled to herself as she got up to clear the dirty plates from the small dining-room table . |
| 4 | He was unfastening the waist of his trousers now , having kicked shoes and socks under a chair , and in helpless fury she bent down to snatch the damp towel from the floor , wrenching it round herself and jumping down from the bed , glaring at him so ferociously that he suddenly burst out laughing . |
| 5 | She bent down to put the bottle back in her case , then stood erect . |
| 6 | She bent down to retrieve the best china from the floor , whilst Ray picked up teaspoons with one hand and dabbed at the goat 's milk with the other holding his handkerchief . |
| 7 | Joanna had cheered up considerably by the time Sophie had finished , and Sophie 's spirits were still high as she drove out to visit the old ladies ' home . |
| 8 | As it grew louder , she twisted around to face the sound . |
| 9 | Rosie had to stay in hospital for ten days , but on the first Monday morning after they let her out , she came round to visit the family . |
| 10 | So he agreed to give her the camera , show her how to use it ; he 'd make sure the family were out the afternoon she came round to get the film developed . |
| 11 | Mother Francis often sat there herself when she came up to tidy the place . |
| 12 | Later she came back to thank the major for her punishment . |
| 13 | His niece , Cathy Carne , found him when she came back to open the shop after lunch . |
| 14 | Their visitor turned on her heel and went to the door where she turned back to hold the broken doll up to Artemis . |
| 15 | Dragging her thoughts into line , she turned back to scan the empty office , mentally checking her appearance . |
| 16 | ‘ Party , party , ’ she yelled out to break the spell and Hosanna ran from where he had been sitting watching her . |
| 17 | As she stepped back to view the result , she realised that Martha was really a most attractive girl . |
| 18 | And she whisked out to answer the telephone . |
| 19 | She reached out to touch the surface , aware of a chill that seemed to have settled around her . |
| 20 | He drew his hand back , and she reached out to stop the punch . |
| 21 | It was a sardonic jibe , but as she reached out to accept the proffered wine she met his eyes , and felt jolted by the gleam of warmth she detected in the grey-green depths . |
| 22 | She 'd been digging for a while when she looked up to swing the stone in her hand on to the pile , and saw Clare standing there . |
| 23 | She was just thinking dizzily that perhaps it was what she really should do , in order to get Dr Russell out of her system , when Sharon Blackett 's fat file was dumped unceremoniously on top of the rest of the paperwork and she looked up to see the endocrinologist 's painfully disturbing form looming over her . |
| 24 | She went through to tell the others about the arrangement . |
| 25 | She and Grubb were together in the team that won the Nations Cup in Washington , before she went on to take the Toronto World Cup round . |
| 26 | She went on to emphasise the growing need to tackle environmental problems : ‘ It is no good proposing that we go back to some simple village life and halve our population by some means that have not yet been revealed . |
| 27 | After defeating Pam at the 19th to win the Scottish , she went on to bag the Australian Girls ' title and the British Stroke-Play Championship . |
| 28 | They will point you in the right direction , they were quite bullish last year about Salsevills chances in the book when it was published , before she went on to win the erm thousand guineas . |
| 29 | She went on to attack the Colonial Office on the ‘ hut tax ’ , and became a Fellow of the Anthropological Institute in 1898 . |
| 30 | When she retired from the RCM in 1948 she went on to run the Violet Melchet Infant Welfare Centre near Sloane Square , a job she held for the next twenty years . |