Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] she [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the bedroom above she dropped the linen onto a chair ; then , going to the window , she stood looking out , as she usually did , over the chimney pots towards the river . |
| 2 | The full enormity of the charade hit her a week before the wedding when she attended a rehearsal at St Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 3 | The public glimpsed her frustration and desperation the weekend before the wedding when she left a polo field at Tidworth in floods of tears . |
| 4 | She turned to the doorway where she knew the singer would emerge as the stroke of twelve died away on the still night . |
| 5 | With a sigh now she took a turning off the narrow road into one of the summer picnic spots overlooking Loch Lomond . |
| 6 | For about a year afterwards Anna received aromatherapy massage whenever she felt the need — once , sometimes twice , a month . |
| 7 | A moment later she had the opportunity for a closer look , as the trio came trooping into the sitting-room , Jake in front , the two females right behind . |
| 8 | A moment later she gave an exclamation of relief . |
| 9 | She fingered the cord , was reminded of the horrifying moment when she felt a constriction around her throat and the colours of the room receded . |
| 10 | There is a hackle-raising moment when she hears a saxophone , but the hackles fall again when the Mistress of Ceremonies leaps up , marches outside , and bellows ‘ Not now , Christopher ! ! ’ to someone in a room upstairs . |
| 11 | The film includes an extraordinary moment when she orders the punishment of a man who had threatened to rape her so that he might never threaten women again |
| 12 | The place where she put the tailor 's shop is now a Beatrix Potter shop and museum . |
| 13 | But when he threw open the door to a room upstairs she saw a trouser-press and a black silk robe flung on a chair and knew it was his bedroom . |
| 14 | She mentioned the dashing don in a note found in the room where she took an overdose of pain-killers . |
| 15 | Like Finn , she believed that Lydia had now relented , mistaking her lack of interest for compliance , which led to further misunderstandings at bedtime when Lydia told Finn that he was to sleep in the tiny room where she kept the oil lamps which was furnished with a camp bed and sleeping-bag . |
| 16 | She was on her way home from a school governors ' meeting when she had a puncture . |
| 17 | Less than half an hour later she cleaned the brush in white spirit and pressed the lid of the tin noiselessly down . |
| 18 | As he turned his head away she saw a muscle jumping at the point of his jaw . |
| 19 | A PENSIONER who kept 84 dogs in her house told a court yesterday she had no reason to live if her ‘ bairns ’ were taken away . |
| 20 | A minute later she had the result , and although the scales were less accurate than those at Dr Greene 's consulting-rooms , the weight gain still seemed to be dramatic . |
| 21 | He stood up with a muttered curse of impatience , and when the lightning flashed a little while later she caught a glimpse of his hunched back . |
| 22 | Merrill thought he was going to say something more , but the train drew into Bruges , and a little while later she closed the door of her hotel room , thankful to be alone . |
| 23 | THE sister of missing estate agent Suzy Lamplugh told last night how she survived a knife ordeal because of what she had learned from the family 's nightmare . |
| 24 | It had been a heady day when she noticed the photograph no longer in a place of honour , on the chest of drawers , but moved to a shelf where it could hardly be seen , and then face down , and then in the bottom of a drawer . |
| 25 | She would do her job — and do it well right until the very day when she left the company . |
| 26 | My sister was sent off to boarding school near Bournemouth to improve her health and was near starved , but Mother always managed to find something for the home fare — I remember a great day when she found the butcher 's bare and bought a goose that was available and that we certainly should n't have had it in normal circumstances and I was quick to see it was an ill wind that did nobody any good ! |
| 27 | But with Son being here , talking about it once in a while when she gets a bit down , and do n't we all — well , I feel like it all happened last week , and what 's more as if I was in the middle of it . |
| 28 | We 've only had one night when she cried a lot — luckily it was n't the night before a game . ’ |
| 29 | Blanche bristled with anger now she knew the truth about Taczek . |
| 30 | A week ago she had a hysterectomy ; a major operation that will take weeks , maybe months , to recover from . |