Example sentences of "[noun sg] and she [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she ran down the driveway of the semi-detached house , a shot was fired from an upstairs front bedroom and she fell to the ground . |
| 2 | Elissia tickled the back of her neck and she leapt in the air . |
| 3 | He had told her that he had wanted her that night at the house , but he needed no words now — his body was evidence enough — and sheets of flame seemed to shoot through her as her arms wound around his neck and she arched against the demanding , hardening muscles . |
| 4 | Someone had put on a Roy Orbison album and she slipped into the man 's arms to the strains of ‘ Crying ’ . |
| 5 | They ate with a shared teaspoon out of the tin and she looked at the sardines and condensed milk now exposed between John Donne and Rosa Luxemburg . |
| 6 | The traffic was too heavy for her to go to the driver 's side and she stormed along the pavement to the offending car and opened the passenger door . |
| 7 | When her cloak was removed in the Rectory hall and she went into the drawing-room which had been lavishly and clumsily decorated by the children on precisely the principle Alexandra had used in dressing , they crowded round her with gasps of delight and wonder . |
| 8 | they all sit there looking at her and saying bloody hell she ai n't got her own hat on , we 've been here quarter of an hour and she walks in the door , takes her coat off and says come on ladies you 're suppose to be off your hind by two o'clock , leaving here at two |
| 9 | But Maggie had a warm heart and she looked for the best in people . |
| 10 | A faint wash of colour rose under her skin and she rose from the table and walked to the counter . |
| 11 | My small daughter was with me in town and she complained about the smell , so it should be done . |
| 12 | Claire Samways blasted the ball off Alison Vance , the Portadown keeper , but it fell to Jeanette Turner loitering at the post and she spun on the ball firing it in from an acute angle . |
| 13 | The can rolled sideways down the hill and she scrabbled across the tent for it . |
| 14 | There was a ripping sound and she fell against the counter . |
| 15 | I liked her from the moment I met her , and I well recall the occasion — I had turned up at their place and she appeared in the yard from the shed carrying buckets of milk . |
| 16 | and anyway she said that whoever the girl is , she works at the school in the day and she works at the erm |
| 17 | He hit her hard across the head and she fell to the ground crying loudly . |
| 18 | Knowing that fear , she abandoned all pride and she called into the darkness for someone to come and rescue her . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ I love my wife and she consented to the sex . |
| 20 | Carl gives Anna the newspaper and she reads about the princess , and about Carl . |
| 21 | Kelsey 's head was the size of an apple and she fitted in the palm of her mum 's hand . |
| 22 | The fear propelled her out of her stillness and she ran down the hill . |
| 23 | It was a Wednesday morning and she walked on the beach before dawn , early so she could dawdle all the way to the fish lines and be home in time to make breakfast and get her gran up and doing . |
| 24 | President Marjorie Clarke expressed pleasure at seeing Kay Hampton back after her recent illness and she reported on the good progress being made by Sue Rankin and Miss Elliott who had also been ill . |
| 25 | Nellie Tanner had reached Aggie 's front door and she stood over the dumpy , dark-haired woman . |
| 26 | Her wet feet burned on the hot stones at the edge and she walked across the grass to the shade where he stood jubilant , beckoning . |
| 27 | She rightly notes that students are not entitled to any income support from the Department of Social Security during the summer vacation and she points to the real problems that exist in areas of high unemployment , such as Gateshead and on Tyneside in general , where students , whom the Government urge to take on part-time or full-time jobs during their vacation , simply do not find those jobs available . |
| 28 | For a second she imagined that she detected a bleary look within his own eyes — and she knew it must match her own — but then it was gone as fast as summer lightning and she shivered beneath the old familiar expression , that brooding , storm-filled one that she knew boded no good to her . |
| 29 | Her whole attitude was one of mortal weariness and she slumped in the chair as though too tired to make the attempt to rise . |
| 30 | And she took the skin and she ran down to the shore and she put on the skin , dived back into the sea . |