Example sentences of "she [verb] in the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The queer feeling came over her , that choking feeling in her throat which she experienced in the night , when she was lying awake trying to recall and piece together dim , fleeting memories of another time in which she had lived , when things had been both happy and sad , when angry broken sentences would not meet and so explain the odd pictures that formed in her mind .
2 If these fail and she suspects disease she now incorporates the age-old universal remedies such as massage , heat , cooling , gripe water , aspirin , distraction , and , if those do not succeed , she turns in the West to the doctor .
3 Louisa felt a little helpless before his diffident manner , and she was surprised when Emilia insisted that she remain in the room throughout Frere 's third visit ; surprised and discomfited , for it was not a happy interview .
4 Tennis , walking , dancing with the older women she met in the villages .
5 For the Ulster woman has spent the past year trying to adopt the pretty five-year-old she met in the dark and desolate corridors of a Romanian orphanage .
6 No matter who she met in the future , that walk in the lemon-scented night with him would be one part of her she would never share with anyone .
7 While she dawdles in the Courtyard of the Lions , he departs in a frenzy of whips , elbows , hooves , all rapidly obscured by a dustcloud .
8 So she plays in the backyard . ’
9 All she had were some notes she made in the car , witnessed by Dexter .
10 Well if you 'd have seen that I mean I and she sleeps in the airing cupboard she 's now started to get in there , but she 's half out on the landing .
11 She lived in the country with her husband and she was a great cook .
12 He laughed and told me she lived in the cabana .
13 There she lived in the school house and had charge of a little brood of no more than eight or nine children .
14 All magicians can be tested by laughter because corruption can not stand mockery ; and when his daughter laughed at him he drove her out into the wilderness , and she lived in the wilderness with the wild beasts and angels ministered to her .
15 Again it would not matter if the person were a US citizen or not , so long as he or she lived in the US the classification would stand .
16 As Gail Brunskill , she lived in the village of St Bees in Cumbria before moving to Whitehaven .
17 She complained of too little to do now that she lived in the village as companion to an elderly lady .
18 She lived in the present , loving her more each day and experiencing the secret joy of sharing in her child 's upbringing .
19 Carrie lifted her head and looked at him , and what she saw was a young boy , the same young boy she had known when she lived in the cottage .
20 Then I thought that she lived in the cottage — Maria looked after her , perhaps ; or perhaps this room that was to be mine for the week-end was normally hers .
21 She and her sister inherited the Treffry estates in Cornwall from their brother in 1779 , and after her husband 's death in 1786 she lived in the family home , Place , at Fowey .
22 But she lived in the shadow of her sporty sisters and her mother who was ‘ captain of everything ’ when she was at school and would have played at Junior Wimbledon but for an attack of appendicitis .
23 She lived in the house .
24 She lived in the house where my mother had been born and had spent the first seventeen years of her life , up until the time she was married .
25 In fact , she realised with mounting dismay , everything she owned in the world was aboard Water Gypsy .
26 When the female settles on her eggs , the male brings lumps of soil , moistened with his saliva , as she sits in the hole .
27 But at night time , if you 're not in , she sits in the chair waiting
28 She sits in the passenger seat of the car on her haunches rather like a dowager duchess lacking the string of pearls , and glances about with curiosity .
29 She sits in the Representative 's office , smoking too many cigarettes .
30 Had she fallen in the street ?
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