Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She doubled up in pain , and rested her forehead on the carpeted floor . |
| 2 | ‘ Could n't I see her , before she goes in for surgery ? ’ |
| 3 | But Madeleine wo n't let me wake her up , she insists on waiting until she goes back to bed of her own accord . |
| 4 | The woman returner can feel inadequate when she goes back to work , forgetting that she 's spent several years managing and developing human resources at home . |
| 5 | she goes back to college |
| 6 | Laura Mancinelli 's Mozart 's Ghost ( 1986 ) combines two rather donnish mysteries : the protagonist is pursued by ‘ anonymous ’ telephone calls which consist of nothing but music by Mozart ; when she is spared further harassment by the entire Turin telephone system seizing up , she goes off in pursuit of the concealed manuscript of Plato 's last dialogue . |
| 7 | Let her parents know about her movements when she goes out at night ; she will tell them where she is and with whom , and let them know what time she 'll be home . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm going to the tourist office right now , to see if there 's anywhere I can stay tonight — ’ A sea of uplifted faces swam into her vision , and she coloured up with embarrassment . |
| 9 | Apart from the measly sums she doled out from time to time , the allowance was Benedict 's by right , for it was left in trust for him by her husband . |
| 10 | She sits up in bed for a moment , doing some complicated breathing and flexing of the abdominal muscles , learned in yoga classes , to calm herself . |
| 11 | The parrot crawled , more an animal than a bird , out of her cage and , helped along by her powerful beak , climbed the various terraces of Aunt Tossie 's bed until she reached her pillow where she crept along by shoulder to neck . |
| 12 | She crept back to bed and lay next to her husband , taking care to leave a space between their bodies . |
| 13 | She got up at night and she set off towards the city all by herself , travelling through the forest . |
| 14 | She got up at night to look at her asleep , to see that she lacked nothing . |
| 15 | Sometimes it would be Bessie , Billie , names we 'd all heard before and knew about ; her favourite fistful , the one she would recite just before she got up on stage , was Mae , Marie , Maria , Anna Mae B , La Miss , Marian … |
| 16 | He even made a pot of tea and poured her a cup when she got up for work . |
| 17 | She sensed he was pretending to be asleep when she got in to bed . |
| 18 | She got out of bed too early , so the story goes , because there was so much washing piling up belonging to all the family , as well as me . |
| 19 | She got out of bed , slipped on her dressing gown and tiptoed to the window . |
| 20 | Once she tells us that she woke up and then that she prepared breakfast , we assume certain facts : that she got out of bed , for example . |
| 21 | Again he called , almost a sob : she got out of bed , put on her dress and went down from her attic . |
| 22 | She got out of bed at once and did not finish her breakfast . |
| 23 | Guiltily , she got out of bed to look . |
| 24 | The walk there took only about ten minutes and she thought that even with the frightening weakness in her legs that she had discovered the first time she got out of bed she ought to manage that distance . |
| 25 | She got out of bed and went to make tea . |
| 26 | She got out of bed and marched across the room . |
| 27 | Her window had been wide all night and as she got out of bed she looked down on the dusty heads of trees where sparrows were fussing . |
| 28 | The bride herself remaining calm throughout , her mother , who had prayed so ardently for this day , finding herself utterly overcome by it ; having slept not a wink , of course , the night before and melting into tears — of anxiety , of joy , of overwrought nerves — the moment she got out of bed ; unable , no matter how hard she tried , to do her own soft , fair hair to her satisfaction and suffering a sudden and quite dreadful conviction that the powder-blue taffeta she had ordered from Miss Ernestine Baker was somehow not right . |
| 29 | She got out of bed . |
| 30 | And she got out of bed , looked up the page , and read , A reduction in international armaments is impossible ; by virtue of any number of fears and jealousies . |