Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's back in the canteen from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. , when she goes home to the children and her working day starts its next shift . |
| 2 | 2 She turns quickly on the balls of her feet to meet the advance . |
| 3 | Aunt Elena is a concert pianist , and she plays all over the country and in Europe , too . |
| 4 | And now she is married to Brian Bowen , towards whom she drives home through the January night . |
| 5 | Mrs Chalk was nowhere to be found , so she made straight for the medicine cupboard in the spacious Georgian-style kitchen with its enormous , old-fashioned white-painted cupboards and scrubbed-elm table , and located the painkillers , swallowing the dosage with water before setting about making the tea . |
| 6 | Turning from him , she made quickly for the door . |
| 7 | Her conscious understanding of how she was using language is clear from the explanations she gives for the expressions she uses in the poem : ( on line 2 ) " She lived outside in the open , so the air was like her house " ; ( on line 5 " the streets were like a giant shop where she could pick and choose out of bins and gutters " ; ( on line 8 ) " this means she was close to nature and she felt like the yew was her mother " . |
| 8 | PLUCKY Laura Davies is all set to achieve her main ambition tomorrow when she flies home from the US to begin school in Eccles , Manchester . |
| 9 | She wondered whether she should ring Bridget — she still had n't spoken to her since leaving Oxford on Monday morning — but , with Jamie 's visit imminent , she shied away from the thought . |
| 10 | But she shied away from the idea . |
| 11 | She gazed unseeingly across the room , ashamed of her own weakness , all too aware of her vulnerability . |
| 12 | She gazed dispiritedly into the mirror , and the face looking back was like that of a stranger , pale and hollow-eyed . |
| 13 | Lying on her back , stretched flat beneath the sheet , she gazed abstractedly at the oblong of high , cobalt-blue sky framed in the window . |
| 14 | The tea forgotten , she gazed blankly through the window . |
| 15 | She laughs quietly in the darkness . |
| 16 | She toyed uncertainly with the idea of handing in her resignation today . |
| 17 | She crept softly across the room to the piano and touched the keys , although without applying any pressure . |
| 18 | She crept stealthily along the gallery , not daring to put on a light in case she should wake Luke , past his room , feeling carefully in the half-darkness . |
| 19 | No-one had said whose the other was , but from the tone of their glances Elizabeth guessed he was her husband 's — she glowed inside at the word . |
| 20 | So she got straight onto the DHSS and I got a grant for three single beds and bedding . |
| 21 | Usually when she got home with the bread Léonie dumped it on the kitchen table . |
| 22 | ‘ This has knocked her back , she has been very poorly and really cried when she got home from the hospital . |
| 23 | She rode furiously to the asylum grounds and looked up at the tree where the leaves had run riot in late summer . |
| 24 | She clung hard to the thought . |
| 25 | Hardly aware of the chill she paced restlessly along the bank , seeing for the first time the way the dew crisped to frost along each blade of grass until the parkland veered from dark to grey to an ephemeral diamond enchantment . |
| 26 | She bent closer to the painting and gazed at the master 's signature . |
| 27 | She writes all over the table and all . |
| 28 | He handed down the cane and the bicycle lamp and she waded away into the shadows as the curious faces of the villagers , the anxious face of her father , peered down at her . |
| 29 | She peered suspiciously at the sheet , now folded neatly at the end of one of the benches . |
| 30 | She peered intently at the tears in the garments . |