Example sentences of "[adv] she [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her feet found wings and suddenly she twinkled with the spirit of Fred Astaire . |
| 2 | Suddenly she came across the room , the night-shirt flapping round her long , brown legs , and seized his shoulder . |
| 3 | Suddenly she fell into the water . |
| 4 | Except suddenly she thought of the receptionist who would normally be at that desk . |
| 5 | Suddenly she rose from the post , some 250 feet from me , and with a dozen or so leisurely beats of her magnificent wings she was angling in to land on my glove and devour her prize ! |
| 6 | Suddenly she turned to the inspector , sipping her whisky . |
| 7 | Suddenly she leaned across the desk and kissed me quickly on the mouth . |
| 8 | Idly she picks at the flap , but it is still stuck down ; no one has opened it , no one has read the book , it is still intact . |
| 9 | For too long she gazed at the rain across the lake . |
| 10 | She did n't know how long she sat at the table , letting her coffee go cold . |
| 11 | When she too heard the clatter of the galloping horse far below she went to the window , but there was no longer anything to see and only the sound of the nursemaids chattering . |
| 12 | Perhaps she started from the feeling and then found a correspondence for it in the outside world . |
| 13 | She told the Obersturmfuhrer all she knew of the gang , and of her involvement . |
| 14 | The woman , who worked as a waitress in the sergeant 's mess , told Ingrid all she knew about the compound , and advised her to steer clear of the cookhouse . |
| 15 | So she started to cry and all then and said she said she was sorry , and right enough she stuck to the time that we allow her to , she 's come in last night dead on the button . |
| 16 | So she tapped on the window . |
| 17 | As she did so she glanced towards the entrance of A and E , checking automatically for Jim Harris 's car — except it would n't be there , she remembered with a twinge of regret . |
| 18 | So she wrote to the box number and suggested a date for a preliminary viewing to avoid disappointment or misunderstandings . |
| 19 | She started she 's that , she made friends with one or two of her colleagues so she goes to the cinema of an evening |
| 20 | So she goes to the hospital . |
| 21 | So she goes to the hospital and they go right take your clothes off and put the gown on Get out , man , just , just go to a clinic . |
| 22 | So she goes into the church . |
| 23 | So she lay on the floor and looked through the open door , into a beautiful garden with green trees and bright flowers . |
| 24 | So she lay on the floor in the shape of a cross , and prayed . |
| 25 | So she plays in the backyard . ’ |
| 26 | And so she got through the week , surviving mainly on humour and philosophy , but occasionally resorting to sarcasm with particularly obtuse patients . |
| 27 | So she made for the orchard first . |
| 28 | So she waited for the summons to the prince 's presence , and went with a demure step and a high heart when she was called at last . |
| 29 | The bedroom was on the same level as the terrace , the small sitting-room and the kitchen , and so she waited for the sound of another door or footsteps on the stone staircase down to the entrance hall . |
| 30 | So she went with the architect and he was wanting to show us this kind of and we were like , were cold and were back to the hotel , we did n't even go into the house . |