Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She laid out in here and people just wandered in off the back end here . |
| 2 | Turning her head , she gazed over to where her husband and the two little girls , together with their friend , Kerry-Jane , were busily engaged in filling their buckets with damp sand . |
| 3 | As she gazed down at where his car waited in pole position , Celeste 's giggles had changed into a pout . |
| 4 | When she got up at 7.45am she found a piece of paper in the kitchen with an arrow pointing towards the garage . |
| 5 | What a mystery it is , the way we carry on , thought Liz , as she moved on to more congenial entertainment : remembering , suddenly , the oft-repeated claim of an Austrian refugee analyst of her acquaintance , who frequently and unashamedly rejoiced in having had in his house at one time no less than five Nobel Prize winners , a claim which she had always found endearing , ridiculous , foolish , alarming , comic , in its nai¨veté , its precision , its ruthlessness : remembering the alarms and excitement of her own early encounters with the famous , the great , the titled , the rich : remembering the ancient yearning to crowd her life with people , with voices , with telephone calls , invitations , children , friends of children : remembering , in short the dread of solitude , the dread of reliving her mother 's unending , inexplicable , still-enduring loneliness : and across these memories , flitting in a half second , as she made her way , for light relief , towards Kate Armstrong , fortifying Kate , came the question — why did Henrietta Latchett , who must have been invited to a hundred parties tonight , who could never have known a lonely evening , why did she choose to come to us ? |
| 6 | She moved out for a while , but carried on cleaning for her ; and then when she married , she moved back in again , and had her first child there . |
| 7 | Pauline moved out and she moved back in again though did n't she ? |
| 8 | With a happy smile on her extraordinarily beautiful face , and the memory of a man with blue eyes in her mind , she wandered back to where she had left her car , and Ellie being Ellie , who was totally incapable off passing anything that looked even remotely interesting , it was another hour before she finally got to it . |
| 9 | Then , realising that it did n't take much for this man to get to her , she made sterner efforts to get herself more of one piece and , returning her hand to her lap , she drew out of nowhere , ‘ Not everybody can wear contact lenses , ’ and added for a touch of authenticity , ‘ I ca n't myself . ’ |
| 10 | Then she came over to where he was kneeling by the fire and put her arms round him from behind and pressed her cheek against his . |
| 11 | Hand outstretched she came up to where I was sitting . |
| 12 | I think it was the Battle of , she came down through here and she stayed the night at House . |
| 13 | ‘ Christine went to a play at St John 's Hall ; she came in at about half-past ten . ’ |
| 14 | She came in without so much as a ‘ by your leave ’ or a ‘ with your leave ’ … she pushed her nose into corners , and if she did n't say the place was dirty you could see what she thought right enough . |
| 15 | She walked over to where the just-savaged books lay strewn across the floor , and stirred them with the toe of her boot . |
| 16 | Fran 's pulse leapt and she stepped back at once , afraid that he would see the reaction his words evoked . |
| 17 | She landed up with still more work on her hands when the wardrobe mistress fell ill and she found herself gamely stepping into the breach . |
| 18 | At last she reached up to gently touch his face . |
| 19 | She looked round to where her sister was searching through the other books . |
| 20 | She looked around for somewhere to sit , but the bed looked bigger than ever in the cramped room and his jacket lay discarded on the only chair . |
| 21 | She looked up from under grey , bushy eyebrows . |
| 22 | She went over to where he was standing by the fire and thanked him . |
| 23 | She went over to where he was standing , looking him right in the eyes so that he could see how furious she was . |
| 24 | She went on to officially hand it over to OXRAD , the disabled sailing group based at Farmoor Reservoir near Oxford . |
| 25 | She went back to where the gardener was digging , and spoke to him . |
| 26 | Brenda ( seventeen , Jamaican parents ) commented that in Jamaica she had been teased as a " foreigner " because her Creole was not up to scratch : Oh , they call you all — " English gyal , come here English gyal ! " yeh , my sister 'ad it all , my sister ai n't English , my sister 's Jamaican , because she come over here when she was young , when she went back over there they were callin' her English gyal , the lot [ ] but when she , she ai n't forget nothin' , she can still speak it so she open her mouth and they say sorry [ ri ] ! |
| 27 | She went down on there . |
| 28 | ‘ No , not because of you ! ’ she shot back at once . |
| 29 | ‘ After a couple of days I hope I 'll be able to go home ! ’ she shot back at once . |
| 30 | ‘ No ! ’ she shot back at once . |