Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lesley turned smartly left as the lights changed , and wound her way by back-streets to the parking-ground on the edge of the shopping centre , a multi-storey monstrosity of raw concrete , at which she gazed with resigned distaste as she crept slowly up to the barrier and drove in to the second tier . |
| 2 | Tugged out of her siesta like a back tooth , she staggered groggily out to the yard . |
| 3 | She swam slowly back to the beach and lay , limp on the yellow mud . |
| 4 | She wandered slowly back to the garden . |
| 5 | Cup in hand , she was about to sit opposite him at the small kitchen table , but the unwelcoming look in his deep blue eyes changed her mind , and she wandered aimlessly through to the living-room . |
| 6 | She turned angrily back to the car , but Guy caught up with her in a couple of strides , catching her shoulders , spinning her back to face him . |
| 7 | Levering herself tiredly to her feet , she walked despondently back to the cottage . |
| 8 | She walked heavily back to the car , baking in the sun . |
| 9 | She walked slowly over to the golden sarcophagus . |
| 10 | Parking the Volvo under the cedar tree , she was so sunk in her own angry thoughts that she hardly felt the bleak rain on her face as she walked slowly round to the rear entrance . |
| 11 | She felt cold , and folded her arms across her chest as she walked slowly back to the house , looking down at the bloodstained front step . |
| 12 | Closing the door of the telephone-box , she walked slowly back to the cottage . |
| 13 | She walked slowly back to the sitting-room . |
| 14 | She walked right up to the front of the altar and stood still beside Mike . |
| 15 | Wrenching the phone line once more from its socket , she walked mechanically through to the bedroom and pulled open the drawer of the desk . |
| 16 | She walked rapidly back to the hotel and collected her car from the parking area , then drove back and parked a few cars ' lengths from the boatyard . |
| 17 | She walked quickly up to the front door , opened it , turned and waved . |
| 18 | Then she stepped quickly on to the nearest chair and stood there , listening . |
| 19 | When the last of the humans had gone , she dashed nimbly over to the nearest Chelonian and swiped the strangely shaped gun from its unresisting grip . |
| 20 | Clipboard in hand , she strode purposefully up to the doors . |
| 21 | Clipboard held tightly under her arm , she strode purposefully over to the area where the thousands of drums were stacked in a sprawled , looming maze . |
| 22 | She fell straight down to the bottom of the stairs . |
| 23 | She drifted slowly over to the telephone , most people doodled while they talked , and Roman proved no exception . |
| 24 | With the piece of toast in her hand she went right up to the window and pushed it further open . |
| 25 | Initially she went right back to the age of four and , although she could not tell me what year it was , she did know that there was a queen called Victoria . |
| 26 | She went slowly back to the drawing-room to collect her sketch-pad and pencils , and all the time she kept telling herself that this was a really stupid thing to do . |
| 27 | She went slowly back to the kitchen . |
| 28 | She went slowly along to the door she knew led into his study , and now it was Jenna 's brow that was creased in a frown . |
| 29 | After that the question of Julia 's lunch was settled and she went straight back to the Campo San Maurizio to warn Annunziata that neither she nor David would be in for dinner . |
| 30 | She went straight down to the kitchen in the basement where her mutterings turned into a clear expression of disgust at the mess , cooking vessels all over the place and nothing cleared up . |