Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She met him in the hallway , in an old blue dressing gown . |
| 2 | Somehow though — with Ven moving forward too , she realised it was n't so unexpected — she met him in the centre of the room . |
| 3 | She described how she walked around for months ‘ with a pain , almost a physical pain , in my heart ’ ; of how she avoided friends and pulled her hat over her face if she met them in the street ; of how , at last , she knew she must express her thousand emotions about her little grandchild in the way she knew best , in clay . |
| 4 | She 'd had no idea what the house looked like , until she was going through that wooden gate when , holding Millie by the hand , she espied it in the distance . |
| 5 | She got it in the back of the neck . |
| 6 | but she got it in the greens |
| 7 | She had to make sure that she avoided him in the future and never gave him the chance to pull any more stunts like that ! |
| 8 | She stood five feet six tall in her high-heeled shoes , her long hair was dark , and she was the kind of thirty-five-year-old woman men turned to look at when she passed them in the street . |
| 9 | He was clad in a short towelling robe , and his hair was damp , and he was clearly on his way back from taking a shower when , on her way to carry out her own ablutions , she passed him in the sitting-room . |
| 10 | She caught him in the hall as he put on his hat . |
| 11 | I laugh if she caught it in the |
| 12 | ‘ Mr Marsh , I wonder if I might accept your offer of help , ’ she said when she found him in the vestry . |
| 13 | She found him in the kitchen , a big L-shaped room , like the house , dominated by an Aga cooker at one end , and a round table set in the shorter alcove . |
| 14 | She found them in the Green Room . |
| 15 | She poked him in the chest . |
| 16 | She poked him in the shoulder , her bright smile belying the force she had used . |
| 17 | The popular myth paints a homely picture of the Queen Mother ducking around Diana as she schooled her in the subtle arts of royal protocol while the Queen 's senior lady-in-waiting , Lady Susan Hussey took the young woman aside for tuition in regal history . |
| 18 | A year later it died of old age and she buried it in the garden . |
| 19 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 20 | ‘ I heard that , ’ she told him in the same language . |
| 21 | As she joined him in the petit salon he came towards her with a prettily wrapped package in his hands . |
| 22 | Five minutes later she joined him in the Biography alcove . |
| 23 | Despite that , Dane 's eyes glinted appreciatively when she joined him in the hotel foyer , and to her annoyance she felt a pleasant little warm glow deep inside . |
| 24 | Eventually she came to Byblos and succeeded in having the palace column removed and thus was able to retrieve the casket and take it back to Egypt , where she hid it in the marshes of the Delta . |
| 25 | She followed him in the direction of the flight deck . |
| 26 | She elbowed him in the ribs . |
| 27 | Later — how much later she ca n't say — she heard him in the bathroom . |
| 28 | She heard it in the raised treble , saw it in the bright eyes . |
| 29 | Gently she placed them in the carrier bag . |
| 30 | Taking the plate gently from him she placed it in the sink , then checked the turkey one last time , turned the gas down as low as it would go and made her way up to bed . |