Example sentences of "she [vb past] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't even noticed where they were , but now he was guiding her up some stone steps , and she realised by the background music that they were heading for Pepe 's . |
| 2 | She passed by the lifeguard , and after she had gone some three or four steps past him she turned her head , smiled , and waved to him . |
| 3 | For a few minutes she knelt by the grave , and was presently joined by Maria . |
| 4 | She knelt by the trunk , flinging aside papers , reaching down and down , scrabbling in the corners . |
| 5 | Suddenly bold , she stopped by the kerb and spoke to him , and they were still there half an hour later when Eileen walked through from the tram . |
| 6 | She stopped by the door . |
| 7 | She stopped by the table and pressed a carved and gilded flower head . |
| 8 | As she sank by the bed , pressing her ear to Aunt Emily 's heart beneath its layers of lace , Aunt Emily 's little boat had already slipped quietly over the horizon . |
| 9 | As she strolled by the river bank near Balmoral that day , she tried to pour out her pent-up feelings to her companion , this powerful woman who was her last hope . |
| 10 | Alive and sparkling , she arrived by the girl , who turned pathetically to face her , with an " Oh " . |
| 11 | She walked by the river . |
| 12 | She walked by the shore , gathering shells . |
| 13 | The sun was setting as she walked by the brink of the ocean . |
| 14 | She was ashamed of causing his inner disturbance which she sensed by the restlessness of his hands , and she wondered if he was praying . |
| 15 | She landed by the post in Candletown Market . |
| 16 | She squatted by the mess that had been Andrew Jean , and said her goodbyes . |
| 17 | She knew by the expression on his face that he was hers , and she was confident her sexual ability could keep him happy until she was ready to move on . |
| 18 | She knew by the temperature that it was now about the sixth hour . |
| 19 | She saw by the look on his face that he was half afraid of her . |
| 20 | That was a case in which the mother of the infant , then pregnant with the infant , was being carried as a passenger in a train of the railway company in County Down when she fell by the negligence , it was said , of the railway company and the infant was thereby permanently injured and born crippled and deformed . |
| 21 | Apart from a particularly vicious-looking nose-job and alarming turquoise-coloured contact lenses , Rytasha is rather beautiful , and in the 1970s , when she went by the name of Ricki , she was a successful model ( she began life as Maxine Shenkman ) . |
| 22 | What on earth do you think she meant by the incident she did n't like at the weekend ? " |
| 23 | She hesitated by the door of the sitting-room , then walked on down the passage . |
| 24 | She hesitated by the telephone , then dialled Miguel 's home number . |
| 25 | She put by the rent for the six weeks , and laid out everything for the bills — she usually pays £6 a week for gas , £2.68 newspapers , £2 club for her son 's clothes , £30 for food , £2.75 for school dinners in term time . |
| 26 | She paused by the table with the bottles and glasses and looked at him . |
| 27 | In the foyer , however , she paused by the bookshop . |
| 28 | After the first date he said he would phone her : she waited by the telephone until after midnight . |
| 29 | She waited by the window to see if they would reappear in the lane which led into the woods . |
| 30 | Full of new hope , she waited by the table . |