Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd better get her into bed , ’ Otley urged , ‘ before she goes sleepwalking down to the river and falls in . ’ |
| 2 | The therapist also suggested that Pamela should tell her parents more about what she was doing ; for example , what time she planned to come home in the evening . |
| 3 | She sits curled up on the couch in the sitting room of her house high above the ocean in Malibu , and gets just slightly dewy-eyed as she talks about her family and the early days . |
| 4 | She sits curled up in the corner of the sofa with her feet tucked under her and her half-written letter to her cousin waiting in her lap . |
| 5 | Joseph noticed that she avoided passing close to the iron grilles closing off the between-deck areas of the ship and when she reached the stern she gazed into the jungle for a moment , then closed her eyes and lifted her face to the gentle warmth of the morning sun . |
| 6 | She became bogged down by the very size of the country , the lengthy supply lines , her inability to have her army spread thickly on the ground , the increasingly effective guerilla warfare waged by the Chinese communists , as well as by debilitating rivalries within the Japanese army itself . |
| 7 | When we finally spill outside , Rachel says she wants to go down to the beach again . |
| 8 | She often appends two to a single noun ( long pink clouds ; wet , leathery hydrangea leaves ; stiff papery blades ) to flesh out , give further fullness to the feeling she wants to call forth in the reader . |
| 9 | She wants to discover more about the history and local legends of Melsonby . |
| 10 | I know she wants to get out of the house , I know |
| 11 | A Christian feminist who has propounded what is clearly a ‘ high ’ Christology ( though it may also be a ‘ low ’ one , for she wants to speak clearly of the humanity of Jesus ) is Patricia Wilson-Kastner , in her book Faith , Feminism and the Christ . |
| 12 | Erm , I wondered if I should ask her if she 's going to the chinese tomorrow if she wants to drop in on the way home . |
| 13 | On the following Monday she proposed to go back to the job she had taken to make it financially possible for Peter and her to buy their little home . |
| 14 | She tried looking out of the window to the hospital 's green lawns and the tall eucalypts that stood motionless against a gloriously blue August sky , but found that looking away seemed too impolite . |
| 15 | When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped . |
| 16 | Even though she tried to listen out for the sound of a returning car , the castle and the road leading up to it remained as silent as the grave . |
| 17 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 18 | She tried to make out from the hill , as she jogged down the track , whether the ferryboat was plying among the craft in the harbour . |
| 19 | When she tried to get out of the passenger door , he struck her again and called her more names . ’ |
| 20 | I talked to Mum , and she tried to think back to the day she met Elaine , and she remembered I was born in a nursing home in Birkleigh . |
| 21 | She tried to peer out of the peephole in her blind . |
| 22 | She tried to catch up with the machine , but she did n't want to attract any undue attention from the IMC troopers , and the thing seemed determined to ignore her . |
| 23 | She tried lying down on the bare mattress , but the whole place felt cold and close . |
| 24 | She has written recently of the current situation in Zaire . |
| 25 | I actually have at the back which I will show in a minute , a costume that was worn by a woman in the eighteen-forties , and it shows how she has kept up with the fashion ; it is a fairly fashionable dress , but it is adapted for real life , for day to day life , for for the life of an ordinary middle class woman who had perhaps one or two servants , but had to do the running of the household herself . |
| 26 | Mrs Brown , 35 , has since made a full recovery but was unable to attend the ceremony because she has moved away from the area . |
| 27 | She has suffered much in the last decade but that experience has given her the inner fortitude to shoulder the emotional burden she must carry on the next stage of her life 's journey . |
| 28 | She has sidled out of the kitchen . |
| 29 | ‘ You will wake Widow MacIntosh — ‘ She is not here , you fool — she has gone off with the mob . ’ |
| 30 | It can be very tiring , and she has to adapt constantly to the changing needs of the learner , patient and ward . |