Example sentences of "she [adv] [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seating herself in solitary splendour , avoiding the accusing glances of his ancestors , she thankfully started on the thick vegetable soup , which , despite Feargal 's derogatory remarks about Mary and Rose , was excellent . |
| 2 | The visibility was poor and on the outward journey she merely concentrated on her driving while Freddie , on the back seat , studied some notes he had brought with him . |
| 3 | Even when lightning lit the skies and the floodgates opened when she was still twenty miles from her destination she merely flicked on the car 's wipers and peered out into the black night , letting the piercing beam of the headlights guide her along the road . |
| 4 | She put up a token resistance , but , knowing that she only existed on his sufferance , opened her mind to him and let him prowl . |
| 5 | But she only came on the scene recently ; there were others . |
| 6 | At first , she only worked on the household duties , especially the cooking . |
| 7 | A group of American housewives discussed how they combined an exercise routine with everyday living and one recommended her method of keeping a pan which she constantly used on a high shelf , so that she did plenty of stretching every day . |
| 8 | After overhearing comments surrounding Toni 's gender and nationality — by fellow Americans , I was relieved when she finally appeared on stage at 9.15pm . |
| 9 | On Monday she finally knelt on the ground where he was killed and placed a wreath to his memory . |
| 10 | Repelled yet attracted by the ferocious masks , she finally tried on one or two , but there was no mirror where she could see herself , although she felt peculiarly feline or vulpine according to the mask she wore . |
| 11 | Journalists treated her with such awe and respect that she soon thrived on interviews , developed her eccentricities and refined the mythical aspect of the success . |
| 12 | She was bright and she was presentable , which meant that she already scored on two counts over the help that they 'd hired last year . |
| 13 | the last sixteen days she just lived on her drip . |
| 14 | Anyway , then she just sprawled on the floor and cried her heart out . |
| 15 | She just sat on the stairs eating biscuit after biscuit until , just before midnight , the telephone rang and she heard the voice of the surgeon telling her that the operation was over , that it had been a complete success and that Paul was likely to make a rapid recovery It was after that call that Annette realised that she had steadily munched her way through two and a half packets of biscuits . |
| 16 | ‘ She just sat on my bed and she was talking . |
| 17 | that combine , the she just trod on it but she never saw it ! |
| 18 | She quickly pulled on the silk briefs , following with matching silk bra , short green- and peach-flowered culotte-skirt and a sleeveless cropped T-shirt in a toning shade of leaf-green . |
| 19 | Hearing the sound of his footsteps at the bottom of the stairs , she quickly pulled on the first things that came to hand — a pair of well-worn jeans that clung lovingly to her like a second skin , and a sweatshirt . |
| 20 | Lady Selvedge then rose and made her little speech — the one she always made on these occasions , for the ‘ cause ’ , whether Church , Conservative Party or District Nursing Association , was always a good one and it was safe to urge her hearers to spend just a little more than they thought they could afford , however relative the amount might be . |
| 21 | In 1937 she also did another season of variety , for which she always insisted on having her material specially written . |
| 22 | She always insisted on the active and determining role of the child , rejecting absolutely any analogy between the growth of a child and the growth of plants because of the power of the gardener to prune a plant . |
| 23 | But she always insisted on taking her turn when hounds moved on to the most unlikely draw of the day . |
| 24 | She always insisted on doing it herself and that made it easy for you . |
| 25 | She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt . |
| 26 | Right now he was groping Joanna who had taken her top off , as she always did on these occasions . |
| 27 | Although she usually got on well with children , she found Hilary heavy going . |
| 28 | Even now , of course , her mother would deny that she 'd been driven by physical needs — she still insisted on living the lie that hers had been a love-story doomed to disaster . |
| 29 | She still had on the revealing silk blouse she had worn in the show , with stage jewellery sparkling at her throat and breast . |
| 30 | Luke emphasised the insult by letting his gaze roam insolently over her robe , just as if he saw through it to the single garment she still had on underneath . |