Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tells us that when she met with one of her sons ‘ against his will ’ , they quarrelled , because she , ‘ some deal moved with sharpness of spirit ’ , insisted on telling him to flee the perils of this world ; the young man , doubtless angry at his mother 's squandering of his inheritance , ‘ sharply answering back ’ . |
| 2 | She commissioned in one particular slot two groups of women to make current affairs ' programmes but interestingly it was n't a very successful experiment . |
| 3 | She lived on one of the small crofts on Lewis in a small glen that was home to three other crofts . |
| 4 | For a time she lived in one of their flats but she says : ‘ They 've got very thin walls and floors so that tenants can pick up vibrations . |
| 5 | She 'd been letting on that she lived in one of those posh houses . |
| 6 | She lived in one of those streets running from the Old Brompton Road more or less parallel with the edge of Brompton Cemetery , a territory that seems more or less taken over by typists ' collectives , where groups of girls band together to share flats whose rents none of them could afford individually . |
| 7 | She agreed to one glass of the port , not because she was feeling at all drunk but because she knew that she ought to be . |
| 8 | ‘ I know , ’ she agreed with one of her tiny smiles . |
| 9 | A formidable businesswoman , Rebuck says she got as one of the original shareholders of Century , a ‘ substantial amount ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ How long have I been like this ? ’ she asked in one interval . |
| 11 | She knew she did not have the strength to throw her voice through the stillness so she knelt on one knee . |
| 12 | She moved to one side and so did Naylor . |
| 13 | Maybe it was something she found in one of her bins It was just six dots , anyway , and some lines joining them up Five of the dots had names , Sometimes she said they were stars , sometimes they were the names of cities . |
| 14 | She referred to one pupil 's piece of writing which described what he thought he had learned in the first session with the advisory teacher : |
| 15 | As she dragged Susan 's limp form away from the fire , she noticed with one part of her brain that a sheet of paper had just begun to burn . |
| 16 | ‘ Ah ! ’ she exclaimed as she came across one labelled ‘ ZOOM ’ . |
| 17 | She came to one of our mission hospitals when I was training in Australia . ’ |
| 18 | Meredith 's brain ticked over rapidly and she came to one undeniable conclusion . |
| 19 | But when she came to one edge of the paving slabs … she tripped and fell ; and it was common ground that there was a difference in height between the concrete and the paving slab of an inch and a half … |
| 20 | The girl comes round here doing a survey , she came round one day and we were civil to her , and just answered questions , you know the way they stop you in the street . |
| 21 | She told of one man who was harangued for ninety minutes at a time until he had a nervous breakdown and quit . |
| 22 | She retreated to one of the dressing rooms across the corridor , switched off the lights , and set the door to give her an angle of view without much risk of being seen . |
| 23 | Sarah had never seen anything look so lovely , and she danced from one end of the table to the other to admire it . |
| 24 | His penis , thrusting from the displaced briefs , she licked in one fast movement , root to tip , tasting the tang of its confinement , the elasticity of the drop of fluid she had generated . |
| 25 | She nodded to one of the row of tidy brick houses . |
| 26 | ‘ Nice bit of fish , ’ she remarked of one of Jane 's painstaking recipes , ‘ very tasty , ’ and gobbled it up , holding her knife like a pencil . |
| 27 | By rights Sue should be more adept at shop work because , after school and while waiting to go to RADA , she served in one of the hardware stores owned by her then businessman father , who became a Midlands MP and now sits in the House of Lords . |
| 28 | She walked from one end of the hall to the other ; no Edward . |
| 29 | Standing up , she walked from one side of the window to the other , her movements stiff and her legs trembly from the accumulated tension in her muscles . |
| 30 | She glanced from one end of the kitchen to the other , noting the sparkling sink without a cup or plate in sight , and the gleaming table top , then the freshly scrubbed floor that was still damp in the corners ; the coconut matting beneath her feet bristled from its merciless thrashing . |