Example sentences of "she come [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Why had n't she come to the hospital ?
2 But had she come on a journey , or what ?
3 Maybe , the Mountie said , but if she was as upset as all that , why had she come on the train at all ?
4 The babe was fretful with teething , but as she came along the corridor she heard a gentle humming above the baby 's wails .
5 When she came through the door , he 'd be behind it .
6 ‘ You do n't have to do that , Hank , ’ she said , as she came through the back gate .
7 ‘ Nana , you know , I ca n't cross the fording in my shoes any more , ’ she began as she came through the gap in the severely-clipped hedge .
8 She heard Agnes begin to protest as she came through the doorway , and called out , ‘ Benedict ! ’
9 Mrs Hobden went into the kitchen , and a few minutes later she came through the doorway carrying a tray .
10 As she came through the side roads to her house she heard a few trial notes on a wind instrument of some sort — a clarinet , was it ? a run of notes that seemed to carry on where the last solitary trill of the bird had stopped , and then a beat , beat , beat of a bass and a drum slowly swinging in , and the band , trying out their numbers high up in a house , lilted together into a piece , melancholy at base with gay little twiddles from the clarinet bravely calling that nightfall was not the end of hope , not a closure — a little bit of swing filtering over back gardens to draw people out , out into the spring night , a beat along the channels of their blood suggesting that this hour , as the light dies , as the dusk creeps along the ground , is not an ending but a beginning .
11 In the late 1880s , dissatisfied with atheism , she came under the influence of Madame Blavatsky of the Theosophical Society .
12 While Yeats was away in Ireland , the patient was admitted to the infirmary where she came under the care of John Pulley , who did n't believe the story .
13 She came towards the door .
14 The ships had some 10 miles to go ; the MLs had used their extra fuel and filled the spare tanks with seawater as they stole into the estuary in two columns , headed by MGB 314 : These motorboats are difficult to handle at slow speed and Campbeltown was sluggish , but at speed she drew an extra foot aft and every inch counted as she came towards the mud .
15 She came for a visit with her favourite slimming magazine .
16 She was polite , she gave me a small box of chocolates with a thank-you card and kissed me and shook my hand when she came for a meal on Sunday .
17 Afterwards she came into the kitchen while I washed her clothes and hung them on a bush in the garden to dry — and there was nothing in our words or manner to suggest that all this was not quite ordinary and everyday .
18 One day , she came out to the perimeter fence ; another , she came into the kitchen when they were making me some food .
19 Mother answered , then she came into the sitting-room and announced , ‘ Clare 's coming home . ’
20 She came into the sitting-room and sniffed .
21 She came into the school grounds , I 'm pretty sure she crossed the headmaster 's lawn , but after that I lost her . ’
22 ‘ Well — she came into the school grounds .
23 And then of course , when she came into the village to buy the few things they need — it is astonishing how modest Mr Swinton 's needs seem to be , she hardly buys any comforts at all but I gather his man is an excellent gardener and they keep a pig for bacon — ’
24 As she came into the restaurant , the Hungarian band was playing Leslie Stuart 's Soldiers of the Queen , revived for the Jubilee .
25 James was aware of Sarah Byrne from the moment she came into the dining room carrying the soup tureen .
26 She came into the van and said she was the new person on the block or whatever — and bang — there she was , ’ Jason recalls .
27 She , she did mention the Guides when she came into the talk with me .
28 A couple of weeks after Brighton she came into the shop , presuming we were going out together that evening — without having told me what she intended , I 'd arranged to go and see a band with a mate from art college .
29 The only occasions upon which she came into the attic herself were pharmaceuti-cally driven , to bring tablets , linctus , suppositories , or to ‘ cup ’ her son .
30 Myra asked as she came into the office carrying a mug of tea .
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