Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's back in the canteen from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. , when she goes home to the children and her working day starts its next shift . |
| 2 | 2 She turns quickly on the balls of her feet to meet the advance . |
| 3 | ‘ 'The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice , self-contempt , abasement , submissiveness , meekness — ’ she read aloud from the early works of Marx , which she had never returned to the library , property being theft , and knowledge free for everyone . |
| 4 | She plunged happily into the familiar noise and chaos of a house with three boys and unpacked the four plastic shopping bags that contained the gifts she had brought . |
| 5 | Aunt Elena is a concert pianist , and she plays all over the country and in Europe , too . |
| 6 | And now she is married to Brian Bowen , towards whom she drives home through the January night . |
| 7 | Mrs Chalk was nowhere to be found , so she made straight for the medicine cupboard in the spacious Georgian-style kitchen with its enormous , old-fashioned white-painted cupboards and scrubbed-elm table , and located the painkillers , swallowing the dosage with water before setting about making the tea . |
| 8 | One of his favourite cakes was a sticky gingerbread which she made frequently in the cold days of winter . |
| 9 | Turning from him , she made quickly for the door . |
| 10 | She realised now for the first time that she had left her purse behind in Edward 's room . |
| 11 | She stalked away from the front door and it closed softly behind him . |
| 12 | Her conscious understanding of how she was using language is clear from the explanations she gives for the expressions she uses in the poem : ( on line 2 ) " She lived outside in the open , so the air was like her house " ; ( on line 5 " the streets were like a giant shop where she could pick and choose out of bins and gutters " ; ( on line 8 ) " this means she was close to nature and she felt like the yew was her mother " . |
| 13 | PLUCKY Laura Davies is all set to achieve her main ambition tomorrow when she flies home from the US to begin school in Eccles , Manchester . |
| 14 | She wondered whether she should ring Bridget — she still had n't spoken to her since leaving Oxford on Monday morning — but , with Jamie 's visit imminent , she shied away from the thought . |
| 15 | But she shied away from the idea . |
| 16 | When the tower walls swung back into focus Isabel found herself clutching a chainmail tunic , quite unaware of the metal links cutting into her palms as she gazed straight into the ice-blue eyes of her husband . |
| 17 | As she gazed intently towards the small group that was her family , a great sadness filled Beth 's heart . |
| 18 | Lacuna appeared distracted , her face frozen in surprise as she gazed unseeingly at the ceaseless struggle . |
| 19 | She gazed unseeingly across the room , ashamed of her own weakness , all too aware of her vulnerability . |
| 20 | She gazed dispiritedly into the mirror , and the face looking back was like that of a stranger , pale and hollow-eyed . |
| 21 | She gazed again at the peaceful scene in front of her until her eyes rested on an old Severn Punt lying high and dry on the foreshore . |
| 22 | She gazed accusingly at the sheepless landscape . |
| 23 | While waiting , she gazed solemnly at the sinister Bridge of Sighs a few yards away and thought of the prisoners who 'd gazed out of its thickly grilled windows , looking for the last time on the beauties of Venice before they were incarcerated — or executed for causing the displeasure of powerful nobles . |
| 24 | Lying on her back , stretched flat beneath the sheet , she gazed abstractedly at the oblong of high , cobalt-blue sky framed in the window . |
| 25 | The tea forgotten , she gazed blankly through the window . |
| 26 | She laughs quietly in the darkness . |
| 27 | She toyed uncertainly with the idea of handing in her resignation today . |
| 28 | She crept softly across the room to the piano and touched the keys , although without applying any pressure . |
| 29 | She crept stealthily along the gallery , not daring to put on a light in case she should wake Luke , past his room , feeling carefully in the half-darkness . |
| 30 | Slipping off her muddy shoes , Leonora went on into the big living-room , every nerve on edge as she crept silently across the familiar worn carpet towards the seductive warmth from the stove , but there was still no sign of Penry . |