Example sentences of "[noun sg] with she [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tina would have plumped herself down in the nearest seat even if this had been next to a passenger but Cecilia , conforming to usage , sat in the emptiest area of the coach , on the platform side with her back to the window . |
| 2 | That girl with her back to us who waits |
| 3 | In fact she did n't demand anything , apart from a dressing-room on the ground floor because she was having great difficulty with her back at the time , and being in pain , was using a wheelchair most of the time . |
| 4 | ( Peg lies on elbow with her back to him , watching Max . ) |
| 5 | He came at last to a small , lean-to workshop where a girl , seated at a bench with her back to him , was decorating a pot placed on a turntable . |
| 6 | While she was waiting for the computer to do whatever it had to do , she rested her elbows on the counter with her back to it and the man next to her said in a heavy voice , ‘ Are you an actress ? ’ |
| 7 | It took all five teachers and the matron to lift the enormous woman and stagger with her out of the room . |
| 8 | And then the telephone rang on the little table beside them , and as Miguel rolled away to reach for it Shelley hastily rolled in the opposite direction , and sat on the edge of the bed with her back to him , smoothing back her hair and getting her breath back . |
| 9 | Mrs Hollidaye , supping porridge with her back to the flaming range and her face towards the window exclaimed , ‘ Why do look , Dorothy ! |
| 10 | Miriam was seated in front of the dressing table with her back to him , brushing her hair . |
| 11 | She was sitting at the table with her back to me as I approached , concentrating on something in her hand . |
| 12 | Nancy quickly poured out his medicine with her back to him . |