Example sentences of "with she [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | According to William , the man and the woman took all their clothes off and climbed into the bath so the woman was sitting with her back to the man , and the man peed into the water . |
| 33 | She was standing with her back to me , talking with Walt and another guy . |
| 34 | ‘ Apple sauce ? ’ asked Shirley , who was dishing up , with her back to the table , from a hotplate on a trolley . |
| 35 | The one where this governess is told to put on a special dress and sit with her back to the window . |
| 36 | She flipped over with her back to him , and pushed her hot little bum into his lap . |
| 37 | ( Peg lies on elbow with her back to him , watching Max . ) |
| 38 | She bent a little to lean her fists on the window seat , with her back to him . |
| 39 | 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 ? ’ |
| 40 | She sat with her back to him , and hid her face with her hands . |
| 41 | Nancy quickly poured out his medicine with her back to him . |
| 42 | His eyes swept the terrasse 's clientèle and an eyebrow twitched as his glance passed one of them in a way that directed attention to the woman sitting there , with her back to the street , facing them through the glass . |
| 43 | Fenella was standing with her back to the silver door , watching the Melanisms . |
| 44 | Cati imagined Rosalba leaving her home with him , marching away with her back to her and her destination ahead unknown ; and she cringed . |
| 45 | But Lynnette D'Armande turned her chair round and sat with her back to Broadway . |
| 46 | Way in the background , Lucy could see Josie with her back to the door as she cleaned up around the makeup chair . |
| 47 | She was sitting with her back to him , and did not turn round even though she must have heard the sound of horse 's hooves on the hard pebbled path behind her . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | She was at a table by herself with her back to him . |
| 50 | She was sitting at the table with her back to me as I approached , concentrating on something in her hand . |
| 51 | A young woman sat with her back to me on the far side of the great fourposter bed . |
| 52 | She changed seats with Hugo so that she sat with her back to the other diners . |
| 53 | Anya is now standing with her back to the fireplace . |
| 54 | She is crying with her back to me . |
| 55 | On one side of the fireplace a grey-haired woman was absorbed in some needlework whilst on the other side , with her back to us , a young girl crouched over a book , loudly reciting a French poem in a voice shot through with gaiety and laughter . |
| 56 | That girl with her back to us who waits |
| 57 | She put the tray down beside the bed , and sat down with her back to him to pour the tea . |
| 58 | At one of the cupboards , with her back to the room she said : ‘ Terry did n't come home last night . ’ |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | 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 . |