Example sentences of "[coord] she [vb past] [adv] to the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We 'll go out and eat , ’ she said quickly , ‘ I 'll get ready , ’ and she twisted away to the bathroom , which also served as her wardrobe , and slammed the door to leave me alone with McIllvanney and Bellybutton .
2 He turned the horse away and walked off , ignoring her , and she went back to the house seething with annoyance .
3 He gave her a quick nod of approval and she went down to the end of the shop and began filling in the certificates , taking her information from the records Mr Miller had already made .
4 ‘ I 'm going to cry until I 'm ill ! ’ and she dropped on to the floor , her shoulders shaking and the tears rolling down her face .
5 And she stalked off to the foyer .
6 She was breathlessly aware of him and she walked across to the fence that faced the field she could see from her room and stood there looking out into the distance .
7 And she flounced up to the house , her long black hair swinging rebelliously down her back from under her red woollen cap .
8 But she woke early one morning to see the sun shining into her room , and she ran out to the secret garden at once .
9 And she took the skin and she ran down to the shore and she put on the skin , dived back into the sea .
10 He 'd allowed her closer than anyone else , and when his clothes were off and he was tired she read him the way she read the weather or the mountains or the dust , she ran her fingers over his pale , scarred body and she guessed close to the truth .
11 They smiled and waved at her , and she hurried back to the desk blushing .
12 Her thinking grabbed her and she raced down to the beach , and followed the rocky shoreline looking for signs of him , but saw nothing .
13 He glanced at Belinda as he spoke and she turned quickly to the glucose monitoring kit to put it away .
14 But she clung on to the post , her body sinking to the floor , oblivious to the groans that issued from her own throat , and the words that formed on her lips .
15 Vasilissa went stony cold with fear , for the eyes in all the skulls glared at her , but she walked forward to the hut and called out , " Hut !
16 She was not particularly hungry , but she went down to the hotel 's dining-room around eight that evening , then returned to her room to spend a fitful night .
17 At first her father had tried persuasion , but she was intransigent : brute force , but she ran back to the woods the moment she could : custodial restraint , but he could not bear the sight and sound of her pining .
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