Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] she [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following day he bought her a bunch of violets and dropped them on her lap as she sat in the prompt corner . |
| 2 | Morse smiled wanly at the lady as she sat in the front row , a lady turning the scales at not much more , surely , than around five stone . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've told you before that you ca n't leave without seeing Doctor , ’ said the Sister , arms akimbo as she stood in the middle of the ward . |
| 4 | Oddly , she felt less happy , less content , less well able to go about her daily business than she had in the three painful months of her sexual abstinence . |
| 5 | She sits me down in Jamie 's heap of a living room while she clatters in the kitchenette . |
| 6 | ‘ It could n't possibly have been Eddie who impersonated Delia and anyway there 'd have been no point when she lives in the same house as Angy . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ See it in its historical perspective , ’ Ellen comforted her husband when she returned in the small hours . |
| 8 | She had got herself all hot and bothered and she felt much safer in the water than she had in the barn . |
| 9 | She knew a quick surge of satisfaction when the door flew open , but there was no time to revel in pride at her own achievement as she took in the scene beyond the door . |
| 10 | Damian opened the bedroom door , and as she stumbled in he flicked on the light and the fan began to whir softly above her head as she stood in the centre of the room , the vast white double bed behind her , the wooden floor warm beneath her feet . |
| 11 | Her ‘ tubular ’ voice production has the merit of keeping the voice steady , and it sometimes rivets attention , especially when she takes a high note with an especially clean attack as she does in the love music of Act 1 . |
| 12 | hoping to dominate … the world of athletics this weekend is Gloucester hammer thrower Lorraine Shaw … she 's UK champion … the first from the city 's club ever to win a senior outdoor title … this weekend Lorraine takes on the best in the world as she competes in the AAA championships in Birmingham … the amazing thing is that up until this year she was a discus thrower … |
| 13 | She had heard the arrival as she weeded in the walled garden , but , like Taggy , she had taken it for Diggory . |
| 14 | ‘ We get off the stop after Salute , ’ he said warmly , as if pleased at her awed silence as she took in the building 's perfection . |
| 15 | Melanie wrestled with self-pity and memory as she sat in the kitchen with her book while her aunt sewed the last seams of the Greek tunic . |
| 16 | There was a taunting sexual threat in the words , and she smiled at him over her shoulder as she paused in the bathroom doorway and let the cotton coverlet slide from her shoulders to land in a heap at her feet . |
| 17 | Even when she was talking to you or giving you your change , you could feel her smile going somewhere over your shoulder as she took in the whole room behind you . |
| 18 | Monique Javer , the American-born former US Collegiate Champion who wears the GB vest with such pride and always plays her best for her country as she did in the European Cup in 1991 , will be the undisputed British No. 1 woman player by the end of the year . |
| 19 | Karen Rake from the Maxwell club at Aylesbury will be chasing records in the pool at Sheffield this weekend as she competes in the British Championships … |
| 20 | Claudia obediently washed Dana 's thick hair as she sat in the bath , sniffing appreciatively at the perfume that floated round her twin . |
| 21 | She was dressed in black , as always , making Riven wonder sourly if she were mourning someone , but there was a bright smile on her face as she took in the battered condition of Murtach 's patrol ; the bandaged Hearthwares , the clawed mounts and the weary eyes of them all . |
| 22 | But before he could banish the memory of the expression on Marjorie 's face as she stood in the thinly sunlit kitchen , one thought slid through to settle painfully into his consciousness . |