Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She felt rage flood through her and she fought down the impulse to scream — that was just what he was waiting for . |
| 32 | She processed down the aisle proceeded by a uniformed , white gloved bearer of the University mace and Tom Husband the V.C. Everybody 's head turned to see her . |
| 33 | As she wiped down the kitchen wall , she could see herself sitting on the half-buried block where she and her Dad used to picnic , watching the — |
| 34 | Rung by rung , she crept up the ladder . |
| 35 | Fish done , spuds on , she got out the asparagus and found they were plastic ! |
| 36 | Without answering , she got out the frying pan and began to do him bacon and eggs . |
| 37 | She wondered what they would make of it as she got out the vacuum cleaner and started to run it over the drawing-room carpet . |
| 38 | Remembering how responsive Faye 's blood glucose level was to stress , she was about to monitor its level , but , as she got out the kit , Tom arrived , his tall figure catapulting into the room and only a slight untidiness to his dark hair betraying the fact that he had so recently been locked in Marise 's arms in the garden . |
| 39 | She got out the mower to cut the back lawn . |
| 40 | I waited at the carousel , Gillie fetched a trolley , and by the time she got back the bags had already come up . |
| 41 | She ruled out the idea of workfare , where claimants are forced to work for benefits or have them withdrawn , for all three million unemployed . |
| 42 | It is very easy for a Secretary to fail to capture the feeling of a meeting when he or she writes up the minutes . |
| 43 | Had she added up the facts wrongly , found him guilty more because it was what she had feared than that it was the truth ? |
| 44 | She lined up the sights on her rifle on its empty front foot and fired twice . |
| 45 | She phoned up the doctors and said she 'd make an appointment for me . |
| 46 | My mum right when I put my make-up on in the morning my mum said oh erm she went to the phone box and she phoned up the specialist and they said so I 've got ta go . |
| 47 | And she phoned up the Saturday , on Friday |
| 48 | She peered out the window , but they were already past it . |
| 49 | She holds out the tray . |
| 50 | old lady — avid for a cigarette , ‘ She sucked in the smoke … like a baby having its bottle . ’ ; |
| 51 | Recklessly she built up the lie , agitatedly aware that she was protesting too much in her desperation but unable to prevent herself . |
| 52 | She beat up the eggs , splashed a drop or two on the lapel of her overcoat , and wiped it off carefully with her finger . |
| 53 | Hair , streaked with the colours of the sun , tumbled down her back and over her shoulders and swung in waves as she shimmied down the catwalk . |
| 54 | She staggered down the gangway , shell-shocked , and walked home feeling as if she was floating on air but as Saturday approached the nervousness began . |
| 55 | Dressed completely in black , she moved down the hall like some silent spider and stood over the coroner . |
| 56 | The words rang flat when she fastened back the shutters . |
| 57 | She was collecting glasses and plates from all over , slinging the contents in a vile bucket , and Philippa noticed that she was n't particularly careful where she stubbed out the cigarette that dropped a little trail of ash wherever she went . |
| 58 | She stubbed out the cigarette and took the tea gratefully . |
| 59 | She snatched up the fern from the window sill and for a second Blanche expected it to soar through the air and sow its parched soil across the carpet . |
| 60 | Without thinking she snatched up the phone again and quickly tapped out the apartment number . |