Example sentences of "[vb past] she [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got 'er took away in the end . |
| 2 | When Nell did n't reply , he turned to see if she had heard him ; found her staring fixedly at the sign . |
| 3 | She 's only shopping today because of a family crisis stopped her doing so in the week . |
| 4 | Ajayi was trying to cultivate the seneschal 's acquaintance ( when her sore leg and stiff back let her get down to the basement levels where he was usually to be found ) whereas Quiss had started out trying to intimidate him . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He imagined her waiting pathetically by the phone . |
| 7 | So I started to write a variation on the first bar and told her to go on in the same way and to keep to the idea . |
| 8 | What she should have done was obey the voice that told her to pass right along the car . |
| 9 | He allowed her to walk across to the counter for a cup of tea because he felt she was flustered , not an emotion one easily associated with Sergeant Henley , and it might settle her down . |
| 10 | Behind them , they heard her murmuring anxiously to the little boy . |
| 11 | To Meryl 's relief a very normal Pamela Berry plumped her rounded behind on the chair opposite Norman 's , and proceeded to cheer him up . |
| 12 | She pulled her loom out from the corner and put a stool in front of it . |
| 13 | Somehow , though , Leith 's sensitivity picked up a strained atmosphere as she pulled her glance back from the stocky man who had taken it into his head to start walking over . |
| 14 | I needed her cheered up in the office . |
| 15 | Angel watched her moving freely in the air like a swimmer on a wave . |
| 16 | He stood and watched her walk back to the house and then he went back to his work . |
| 17 | I watched her walk back down the steps , and the wind flipped her loose cardigan so that it became a swansdown shawl . |
| 18 | I ground my teeth as I watched her crawl back into the machinery . |
| 19 | The rain fell against his face as he watched her march out into the dusk , narrow shoulders pulled resolutely back as if she were someone who knew exactly where she was going and what she thought about things . |
| 20 | The press had already scented a story , and friends at Regent 's Park Zoo urged her to speak out about the zoo animals ' wretched living conditions , now she had seen them in their natural habitat . |
| 21 | I was confident I could wear her down eventually , but I certainly never expected her to come across at the first time of asking . |
| 22 | Mandy rushed over , and made her sit down on the couch . |
| 23 | This made her think suddenly of the pain which Neil Cochrane must have endured , so that she felt pity for him , after all . |
| 24 | I met her walking up by the castle , great big straw hat , floating veils , general appearance of a female Friar Tuck out for a constitutional . ’ |
| 25 | I met her sitting out on the bench where Michael Willis always sat , water-gazing . |
| 26 | After a long session trying on clothes , she was walking out with her purchases when a man tapped her on the shoulder and asked her to go back into the shop . |
| 27 | Rachel asked her to come back after the show , when someone would take her to her sister 's lodgings . ’ |
| 28 | It is this conviction that led her to team up with the Plenary Foundation for Uruguayan Women to launch a multi-media project on the subject of women , mental health and sexuality . |
| 29 | I was hanging on to the ledge at the deep end , arms out in the crucifix position when I saw her come out of the ladies ’ changing rooms wearing a yellow and white striped one-piece . |
| 30 | Betty saw her swimming away into the darkness and called the emergency services . |