Example sentences of "she [vb past] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the NI 's first editorial by a woman , Maggie Black described the beauty of a 15-year-old Ethiopian girl she met on the road to Selekleka and mourned the transience of that beauty ‘ if policies do n't change fast enough to avoid her back being bent , her hands calloused , her body broken , by the time she is 30 ’ . |
| 2 | For the first time I had an opportunity of seeing Barbara at work in detailed negotiations , and whatever small credit attached to me for the major idea , the scale and ingenuity that she expended on the detail and in making it possible to arrive at a suitable settlement was beyond praise . |
| 3 | They had walked quite some miles , she realised on the return journey , and she had been in his company for quite some while , so it came as no surprise to also realise how totally unsuited she was for the job she was there to do . |
| 4 | At 19 she was married to an affluent US writer Harry Mathews and she modelled on the cover of Vogue and Life magazines . |
| 5 | Last seen in the last war , nineteen forty , she lived on the Road South in |
| 6 | Oh yes er I think somebody kept it around father 's day , a chap named , but it was a beautiful old place and he always , because my father always used to erm start off about seven o'clock in the morning to walk down to Walkers and er call in at the White Hart because they were open at six o'clock in the morning , for a rum and coffee for about tuppence or thruppence , then he always used to er go to his mother 's for his breakfast and er he used to go down and see all the men start off and then , then slip over to his mother 's , she lived on the Road and er she , for years and years this went on that he had his break he never had his breakfast at home he 'd start off going down there and come back to his mother 's , but he always stopped at the White Hart for his rum and coffee |
| 7 | well Mrs used to teach his music , she lived on the common at one time in one of those houses by Colin |
| 8 | When a priest came to give her the Last Rites , she gazed on the crucifix that he held before her eyes and felt her illness leave her . |
| 9 | Turning from the window , she gazed on the face of her husband , a kind face and not unattractive , with its straight features and good skin , and the unruly mop of hair that tumbled over his forehead ; he stirred in her arms , whimpering like a child , and pressing himself against her . |
| 10 | She choked on the idea . |
| 11 | Finally , hugging the bottle 's warmth to her chest , she checked on the bolts of the front and back doors and made her way up the uncarpeted stairs to bed . |
| 12 | . She got on the bus alright ? |
| 13 | She succeeded on the bill of sale point but Russell J. went on to consider her second line of defence . |
| 14 | She beat on the tree with her fists , she threw her arms as far round the tree as they would reach and then , despite the relentless rain , the saturated ground and the penetrating cold , she fell on her knees at its foot , unable to muster the will to walk on . |
| 15 | At Matilda 's insistence she tried on the gown then and there , even forgetting her tattered shift until her old dress was whisked away . |
| 16 | And it took our model 's breath away when she tried on the ring … its facets sparkling like a waterfall around the dimly-lit room . |
| 17 | We talked as we went along , but Jane 's conversation became increasingly vague and absent-minded as she concentrated on the work in hand . |
| 18 | She concentrated on the clouds , which moved quickly and smoothly as a train across the top of the hills . |
| 19 | She also had been able to put her feelings on hold as she concentrated on the problems facing her . |
| 20 | She concentrated on the face in her mind 's eye , the single eye that saw in the dark and coloured things in . |
| 21 | She concentrated on the fire , producing something that owed more to determination than competence . |
| 22 | Instead she concentrated on the completion , launch and shakedown of her new Mike Pockock-designed short-handed racing boat Q2 , a truly innovative yacht , custom-built and designed to win her class in the 1992 single-handed transatlantic race . |
| 23 | She concentrated on the light and on breathing . |
| 24 | She knelt on the floor , heedless of the cold stone beneath her knees . |
| 25 | She knelt on the floor of the bedroom , a suitcase open in front of her , ramming in jerseys , shoes , underwear . |
| 26 | When she brought the coffee — elegant little cups on an embroidered tray cloth — she knelt on the floor and put the cups upon the low coffee table . |
| 27 | Switching on her surviving table lamp , she knelt on the sofa and closed the curtains . |
| 28 | She knew that she should never have accepted it , she thought , as she knelt on the carpet , placing the mug down beside her and beginning to search the floor for the elusive ring . |
| 29 | She was in a perpetual process of readjustment , not only to tides and seasons , but to the rats she encountered on the wharf . |
| 30 | When she pinched Victoria 's cushiony thigh ( Victoria writhing and screaming with pleasure ) , she scribbled on the pad for Melanie to read : ‘ What a fine , plump little girl ! ‘ |