Example sentences of "[noun] she [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then at top speed she raced for the keeper 's cottage . |
| 2 | Then she stood up and without a backward glance she walked from the cafeteria . |
| 3 | Leonora straightened her shoulders , pale and vulnerable in the plain black sweater and skirt she wore in the shop . |
| 4 | So how could she possibly tell her friend about the almost wild grief she felt at the prolonged absence of her husband ; the deep , stabbing pain in her heart when she remembered their wonderful night of passion ? |
| 5 | On unsteady legs she walked towards the painting , seeing for the first time the mischievous face of a gremlin peeping out beneath the skirt of an old lady bent double , sweeping a woodland path . |
| 6 | But the Prime Minister may be more concerned to ward off the various demons she perceives on the horizon . |
| 7 | In the privacy of her bedroom she grimaced in the direction of the voice and made her way downstairs , taking her time , not caring if he went grey in the process of waiting for her . |
| 8 | On brisk steps she headed through the door to the conservatory . |
| 9 | Guy Sterne 's eyes held a glitter of amusement , but a darker emotion she saw in the pale green-grey brought colour sweeping up her neck to her face . |
| 10 | In the full face of the ridicule she went to the post office evening after evening , ridicule she willed not to see or notice . |
| 11 | Mrs Stych snapped back that all the ladies present must be well aware of the multitude of offices she held in the charitable organizations of Tollemarche . |
| 12 | As she caught her breath , her temper erupted , and in wild self-defence she pushed against the steel wall of his chest , twisted frantically in his arms , her grey eyes sparking fire as she lifted her hand to hit out at him blindly . |
| 13 | The Princess , dressed simply in a white blouse and dark skirt , was draped with crimson flower garlands as she flew over Mount Everest in a helicopter , 40 years after a British-sponsored expedition became the first to reach the summit of the world 's highest mountain.As she flew past the snowy peak a relative of a Nepalese climber who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary up Everest in 1953 was leading a seven-member Australian team up the mountain.Although the Princess did not see any climbers she told fellow passengers aboard her Super Puma helicopter that she had a wonderful time seeing the mountain through clear skies . |
| 14 | As he turned back to his car she fled across the motorway . |
| 15 | The girls , as in her mind she thought of the Misses Cardings , had trimmed it with a deep tone of lime-green velvet ribbon and in the heart of the bow at the side they had placed two tiny red silk rosebuds . |
| 16 | In her mind she went over the transformation . |
| 17 | And with this in mind she returned to the reception desk to ask Stella if she could use the phone . |
| 18 | A quick glance at her watch showed that she would have time for a short walk outside before dinner , and with this in mind she sprang from the bed and raked a comb through her hair . |
| 19 | To cover her confusion she enquired after the latest entertaining village gossip from Lucy , who was prone to whiling away hours at the ante-natal clinic in deep conversation with fellow village wives . |
| 20 | As she made the tea she thought about the way her brothers had talked about Mandy Watkins . |
| 21 | After making the tea she sat at the kitchen table to drink it , and was still sitting there when dawn broke . |
| 22 | This result she attributed to the very short duration of persistence of the icon , which meant that it had faded before the cue could be utilised to sample selectively . |
| 23 | There are though , records of a talk she gave to the Royal Photographic Society at Russell Square in London on October 28th 1913 . |
| 24 | There are though , records of a talk she gave to the Royal Photographic Society at Russell Square in London on October 28th 1913 . |
| 25 | ( Calle 's show also includes , in the gallery 's smaller room , the piece she did for the Carnegie International about the theft of Old Master paintings from Boston 's Gardner Museum . ) |
| 26 | They crossed M Street and kept going and in a doorway she snatched off the wig and beret and rammed them into the shoulder bag that had been expanded from the purse she had been carrying before . |
| 27 | And it is true what your father says … when I think of what it was like after the War , and when I look around now — ’ suiting her actions to her words she looked around the café , at the ladies , old and frail , like herself , respectable in black and grey — ‘ these went through it too , ’ she said , ‘ and look at them , at us , coffee and cake on a Sunday morning . |
| 28 | In the last chapter she meditates on the meaning of suffering . |
| 29 | chapter she appeals to the reader , I know I came from etcetera , etcetera |
| 30 | The pictures she shot for the cinema were negligible compared to the pictures she shot for pure publicity . |