Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking in the bar of a five-star hotel in Marbella , Yasmin Gibson , a bit-part actress , said that even though her daughter Gemma was now in the care of the local authority , she planned to stay on the Costa del Sol until the end of her holiday in two weeks . |
| 2 | She tried to lean on the field . |
| 3 | Once back in her office , she tried to work on the promotion of Hindley Foster 's book , but found she was unable to concentrate . |
| 4 | She tried to concentrate on the screen , but she kept looking at him . |
| 5 | There was straw and an old woven blanket some herdsman had left there , with a heap of tools ; it smelt savoury and sharp inside , like the smell of a birth ; she was melting , the light blinked around him , and there was sheepskin under them ; her name , which she found carved on the stone , carved by him during vigils while he waited for her there in the days before she could come , was edged in light . |
| 6 | She stooped to lean on the stone wall and rest . |
| 7 | She 'd decided on a plain pastoral view of the asylum and its grounds , it was supposed to be routine . |
| 8 | She rang the number she 'd seen on the underground and went to the address they told her . |
| 9 | But something had happened when she 'd touched on the subject of Tony . |
| 10 | It was the decision she 'd made on the silent journey back to the hotel , and one she intended to keep . |
| 11 | Either he was dead straight , or else he was the sharpest operator-bar none , including the guy she 'd met on a singles ' holiday who 'd almost managed to convince her that he was on his final fling with only ninety days left to live — that she had ever encountered . |
| 12 | From this a spiral staircase led upwards to a similar-sized room with windows on all sides , and Sabine realised she must be in the tower she 'd noticed on the way in . |
| 13 | SHe 'd lived on the street too long . |
| 14 | She would drive over to Bracken Cottage this weekend and get some of the garden tools which she 'd noted on the inventory . |
| 15 | She was listening for a new noise , the noise she thought she 'd heard on the way out to Chateaubriand : the irregular tapping of the axis lock crystal , jumping in its housing . |
| 16 | Perhaps she 'd heard on the college grapevine that Barney had been getting an undue amount of visits from the police and was rejoicing that the heat was off her beloved Rodney . |
| 17 | As Uncle George drove off , Carol began to tell them about the strange flight she 'd had on the broomstick , but then her gaze was caught by several dark objects lying in the snow of the lane ahead . |
| 18 | Her bottom stung as if she 'd sat on a nest of hornets , but she wanted to show them she 'd survived . |
| 19 | She 'd sat on the stubby grass , cut short as the back of a soldier 's head . |
| 20 | Whether it was the relaxed ambience of the city , the clear warm air , or a strange sense of anticipation which heightened all her senses , Gina could n't be sure , but as she made her way towards the Rådhuspladsen — the imposing City Hall square — measuring her stride to avoid the rows of cobblestones which checkered the paving stones beneath her feet , she suddenly felt hungry , despite the champagne breakfast she 'd enjoyed on the flight . |
| 21 | She bent down quickly and retrieved the folder that , as she 'd sat down , she 'd laid on the floor by her chair . |
| 22 | She 'd worked on a woman 's magazine . |
| 23 | A woman has saved a baby 's life using resuscitation techniques she 'd learned on a course just two weeks earlier . |
| 24 | There was no way of being certain how long she 'd spent on the ward ; it might have been six weeks or six years , but she was guessing at six months because this had been the first commission review that she 'd received . |
| 25 | She 'd had an abortion on the Sunday and she 'd died on the Monday . |
| 26 | And she , she wait , she made out she 'd driven on a road |
| 27 | She remembered only two things about New York with affection : the man at Pennsylvania Station , perched high in a little glass box , who announced the trains in the rhythm of a square dance , and the man who returned her purse which she 'd dropped on the platform — a black man . |
| 28 | All she knew was that she came to lie on a garden bench and it was dark and the stars overhead were piercingly bright . |
| 29 | While doing her best to defer to Harriet and Liza , she seemed to look on the baby as her own . |
| 30 | And just as impulsively she turned to check on the movements of that incalculable swarm of half-grown children who were causing him this natural anxiety . |