Example sentences of "she get [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Once she got away from lingerie interest flagged and Rain found herself puzzling over something which had been said before the speeches began .
2 She got up at night and she set off towards the city all by herself , travelling through the forest .
3 She got up at night to look at her asleep , to see that she lacked nothing .
4 Sometimes it would be Bessie , Billie , names we 'd all heard before and knew about ; her favourite fistful , the one she would recite just before she got up on stage , was Mae , Marie , Maria , Anna Mae B , La Miss , Marian …
5 He even made a pot of tea and poured her a cup when she got up for work .
6 She sensed he was pretending to be asleep when she got in to bed .
7 She got out of bed too early , so the story goes , because there was so much washing piling up belonging to all the family , as well as me .
8 She got out of bed , slipped on her dressing gown and tiptoed to the window .
9 Once she tells us that she woke up and then that she prepared breakfast , we assume certain facts : that she got out of bed , for example .
10 Again he called , almost a sob : she got out of bed , put on her dress and went down from her attic .
11 She got out of bed at once and did not finish her breakfast .
12 Guiltily , she got out of bed to look .
13 The walk there took only about ten minutes and she thought that even with the frightening weakness in her legs that she had discovered the first time she got out of bed she ought to manage that distance .
14 She got out of bed and went to make tea .
15 She got out of bed and marched across the room .
16 Her window had been wide all night and as she got out of bed she looked down on the dusty heads of trees where sparrows were fussing .
17 The bride herself remaining calm throughout , her mother , who had prayed so ardently for this day , finding herself utterly overcome by it ; having slept not a wink , of course , the night before and melting into tears — of anxiety , of joy , of overwrought nerves — the moment she got out of bed ; unable , no matter how hard she tried , to do her own soft , fair hair to her satisfaction and suffering a sudden and quite dreadful conviction that the powder-blue taffeta she had ordered from Miss Ernestine Baker was somehow not right .
18 She got out of bed .
19 And she got out of bed , looked up the page , and read , A reduction in international armaments is impossible ; by virtue of any number of fears and jealousies .
20 When she got out of bed , she found him sitting on the top stair , listening to Dad and Mother downstairs in the kitchen , and crying .
21 She got out of bed and thought everything over very carefully , and although it was difficult to keep emotion out of it , she still came back to the self-same answer .
22 She got out of bed and went out and went through the churchyard and went into the church and started feeling in the dark with her hand
23 And she got out of breath so easily , she had to use a wheelchair .
24 She got out of trouble to win her pre-Arc race , the Prix Foy , but it would not have worried me if she was beaten then .
25 She bloody ran to car when I , when she got out of chair !
26 She got back on Midnight , in order to look down on Sebastian and Antony , and squared her shoulders .
27 The baby was wholly out by the time she got back with Sister , though in a caul , as if giftwrapped in Clingfilm .
28 ‘ Balladic archetypes ’ sprang to her mind a good phrase , she 'd try to work it in somewhere when she got back to university .
29 When she got back into bed I used to cry ‘ Poor Clare ! ’ and almost burst into tears as I hugged her .
30 Then she got back into bed , balanced the pad on her knees and began to write :
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