Example sentences of "she [verb] [vb pp] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here I use her hypotheses as set out in her paper ‘ Some Mutual Interactions Between Organizations and Their Members ’ as well as others she has written on the same theme . |
| 2 | She has written on the relationship between jewellery and clothes in Jewellery ( 1984 ) and her most recent publication Ancestral Jewels ( André Deutsch , 1989 ) records historical pieces which are still in private hands . |
| 3 | Mrs Browning , who looks weak and I believe has hardly moved from her room all winter , though she has ventured on a carriage trip or two since spring arrived , is excited by the promise Cavour has made to bring some statesmanship into this affair and hopes much from him . |
| 4 | And I would not for the world meddle with her plans , though I am proud that she has consented on the way to visit me for a while . |
| 5 | A regular in FACE fashion shoots , she has modelled on the catwalk for a host of designers from Yohji and Galliano to St Laurent , as well as for numerous magazines and advertising campaigns . |
| 6 | Could anybody ring and tell us what she has got on the washing line . |
| 7 | She has put on a bit , but |
| 8 | There was straw and an old woven blanket some herdsman had left there , with a heap of tools ; it smelt savoury and sharp inside , like the smell of a birth ; she was melting , the light blinked around him , and there was sheepskin under them ; her name , which she found carved on the stone , carved by him during vigils while he waited for her there in the days before she could come , was edged in light . |
| 9 | She 'd decided on a plain pastoral view of the asylum and its grounds , it was supposed to be routine . |
| 10 | She rang the number she 'd seen on the underground and went to the address they told her . |
| 11 | But something had happened when she 'd touched on the subject of Tony . |
| 12 | It was the decision she 'd made on the silent journey back to the hotel , and one she intended to keep . |
| 13 | Either he was dead straight , or else he was the sharpest operator-bar none , including the guy she 'd met on a singles ' holiday who 'd almost managed to convince her that he was on his final fling with only ninety days left to live — that she had ever encountered . |
| 14 | From this a spiral staircase led upwards to a similar-sized room with windows on all sides , and Sabine realised she must be in the tower she 'd noticed on the way in . |
| 15 | SHe 'd lived on the street too long . |
| 16 | She would drive over to Bracken Cottage this weekend and get some of the garden tools which she 'd noted on the inventory . |
| 17 | She was listening for a new noise , the noise she thought she 'd heard on the way out to Chateaubriand : the irregular tapping of the axis lock crystal , jumping in its housing . |
| 18 | Perhaps she 'd heard on the college grapevine that Barney had been getting an undue amount of visits from the police and was rejoicing that the heat was off her beloved Rodney . |
| 19 | As Uncle George drove off , Carol began to tell them about the strange flight she 'd had on the broomstick , but then her gaze was caught by several dark objects lying in the snow of the lane ahead . |
| 20 | Her bottom stung as if she 'd sat on a nest of hornets , but she wanted to show them she 'd survived . |
| 21 | She 'd sat on the stubby grass , cut short as the back of a soldier 's head . |
| 22 | Whether it was the relaxed ambience of the city , the clear warm air , or a strange sense of anticipation which heightened all her senses , Gina could n't be sure , but as she made her way towards the Rådhuspladsen — the imposing City Hall square — measuring her stride to avoid the rows of cobblestones which checkered the paving stones beneath her feet , she suddenly felt hungry , despite the champagne breakfast she 'd enjoyed on the flight . |
| 23 | She bent down quickly and retrieved the folder that , as she 'd sat down , she 'd laid on the floor by her chair . |
| 24 | She 'd worked on a woman 's magazine . |
| 25 | A woman has saved a baby 's life using resuscitation techniques she 'd learned on a course just two weeks earlier . |
| 26 | There was no way of being certain how long she 'd spent on the ward ; it might have been six weeks or six years , but she was guessing at six months because this had been the first commission review that she 'd received . |
| 27 | She 'd had an abortion on the Sunday and she 'd died on the Monday . |
| 28 | And she , she wait , she made out she 'd driven on a road |
| 29 | She remembered only two things about New York with affection : the man at Pennsylvania Station , perched high in a little glass box , who announced the trains in the rhythm of a square dance , and the man who returned her purse which she 'd dropped on the platform — a black man . |
| 30 | Shannon never knew how long she lay slumped on the floor , racked by the agony of Dane 's betrayal , immobilised by sheer unremitting pain , yet unable even to find relief in tears . |