Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted to live with the foster parents she lived with at the age of two . |
| 2 | She rose from behind the desk , her face full of surprise . |
| 3 | She surfaced from under the sheets and her father saw that her hair was wound on huge electrically heated rollers . |
| 4 | ‘ So ye 've reached the same conclusion as Ah have , that Mario Ángel Gómez is the navigator she referred to as the man who can lead her to that icebound ship . |
| 5 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
| 6 | ‘ Not a good audience , ’ she declared from behind the screen as Jessie helped her out of her dress , ‘ Typical matinee . |
| 7 | It was worth more than £1 to her to see the child 's face ; and again as she watched from beyond the crowd — for she waited a little once she got free of the press . |
| 8 | She worked at on the North Bridge in Leicester . |
| 9 | She pulled from under the bed a box containing photographs and cuttings from happier days . |
| 10 | She could not exactly deny the existence of what she thought of as the stranger within . |
| 11 | By trying to concentrate on what she thought of as the negative parts of his personality she would protect her own weakness . |
| 12 | The young and feisty Armour did n't much care for what she thought of as the anglicised overlay of GSA at that time . |
| 13 | No one like himself , a partial cripple , with a badly scarred body — his limp was paining him this week — and with a ruined face into the bargain could hope to aspire to such a Bird of Paradise ; he could only imagine what she looked like in the clothes she normally wore . |
| 14 | How could he tell what she looked like in the darkness ? |
| 15 | JTR did not land on Coll but sketched part of the village from the St Clair as she hove to in the bay for disembarking passengers and goods . |
| 16 | The only person that she spoke to on the whole crossing was a young man who fell on top of her as she and he were going down the stairs : he was following her , two steps behind , when the boat gave a violent lurch and he missed his footing and crashed into her , and she too missed her footing , and they both sat down together upon the stairs . |
| 17 | She emerged from behind the screen and walked over to the dressing-table , brushing gently against Thiercelin as she did so . |
| 18 | Moving with agonising stealth , she slipped from beneath the covers and began dressing , grateful that the jogging-suit she 'd left draped over the chair had no noisy zips to be contended with . |
| 19 | Ralph Sinnott makes a desk and chair , while Hazel Rogers moves from the box she wrote about in the April issue , to a nest of tables . |
| 20 | God only knew what she sounded like on the air . |
| 21 | He did not move away from her so she slid from beneath the arc of his body , her napkin fell to the floor . |
| 22 | He gave her a gentle push , and she slid from beneath the covers , blushing faintly as his eyes swept boldly over her nakedness , yet enjoying his frank scrutiny at the same time . |