Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She flung it on the counter before Rachaela . |
| 2 | She flung herself on the bed in a paroxysm of weeping , wailing like an animal in pain — until Mrs Taylor came running , and took her in her arms . |
| 3 | She flung herself on the end of the bed and began to bring him further up to date . |
| 4 | She emptied it on the floor , and picked out the junkie kit . |
| 5 | ‘ Does one , ’ asked Gay rhetorically , as she seated herself on the foot of the bed , ‘ quarrel with those to whom one is totally indifferent ? ’ |
| 6 | Then she seated herself on the edge of the bed and , breathing deeply , raised the phone up to her ear . |
| 7 | She laid it on the floor of the car . |
| 8 | Tenderly she laid it on the bed . |
| 9 | Instead of saying so , she pecked him on the cheek . |
| 10 | only your mother was n't sure she asked me on the phone |
| 11 | She prided herself on the last . |
| 12 | She could never ignore them as she passed them on the street , and they , as if they sensed it , turned to her , picking her out at once from a throng of a hundred other pedestrians as the one who saw and heard them . |
| 13 | Hubert James Bainbridge , tenth earl of Donnington , called out to his daughter as she passed him on the opposite side of the street , but she did not hear him . |
| 14 | When she passed him on the stairs his expression told her he scarcely knew she was there . |
| 15 | So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air |
| 16 | She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning . |
| 17 | She found herself on the threshold of Fearon 's bedroom : that was a bit tricky and she knew she ought to retreat there and then . |
| 18 | She had gulped in this exciting sense of heightened perception with the wind and rain , as soon as she found herself on the pavement outside the house . |
| 19 | She joins me on the carpet , and we all sit blowing on our coffees and warming our hands on the mugs . |
| 20 | She schooled him on the lunge and in a fenced paddock over jumps , and then out in the fields and then out on the marshes , accompanying him on her own eventer and leading him over ditches and fences . |
| 21 | She banged it on the chopping-board . |
| 22 | No , she to she told me on the phone . |
| 23 | She told him on the bus , nerving herself , that the children were Charlie 's but that she had undertaken of her own accord not to tell anyone else because Charlie was the sort of person who could n't be lumbered . |
| 24 | He now faces the agony of receiving a letter she told him on the phone that she 'd written the day before she died . |
| 25 | She dropped them on the chopping-board and crushed them under the blade of her knife . |
| 26 | On one occasion she threw him on the floor and on another she had deliberately broken his toys . |
| 27 | She joined him on the settle . |
| 28 | She blamed it on the after-effects of the trial and the feta cheese in the salad . |
| 29 | She arranged them on the big table on the terrace where they looked impeccable , like clothes set out for a wedding . |
| 30 | She was floating — in the same way as the keys did n't when she released them on the Moon . |