Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | For a moment , Donna felt tears welling up in her eyes but she fought back the pain , forced the thoughts away . |
| 32 | Her eyelids fluttered and she went deathly white , but she fought back the dizzying sensation , her hands coming up to brace herself against fitzAlan 's chest while the world righted itself . |
| 33 | ‘ Hi , lover , ’ she said , her lips trembling as she fought back the urge to weep with happiness at his recovery . |
| 34 | She fought back the sudden urge to run to him , to fling herself into his arms and beg his forgiveness . |
| 35 | Desperately she fought back the tears , not knowing why they had formed so swiftly . |
| 36 | Angrily , she fought down the urge to turn , and kept her eye on the bead of light , willing the pathetic creature beyond to come to it . |
| 37 | She felt rage flood through her and she fought down the impulse to scream — that was just what he was waiting for . |
| 38 | She fought down the lump in her throat , and summoned a smile as Rose came quickly forward , drawing the animal 's bark . |
| 39 | Resting her head wearily against the hard banister rail , she fought down the momentary surge of panic . |
| 40 | She processed down the aisle proceeded by a uniformed , white gloved bearer of the University mace and Tom Husband the V.C. Everybody 's head turned to see her . |
| 41 | She sought out the darkest room and even then closed the shutters , though it was only early morning , and lay on her bed without energy even to feed her son . |
| 42 | As she wiped down the kitchen wall , she could see herself sitting on the half-buried block where she and her Dad used to picnic , watching the — |
| 43 | Jinny was paralysed until Keith prodded her and she choked out the first words . |
| 44 | She choked down the sudden lump in her throat , rejecting a surge of self-pity she had no need for . |
| 45 | Rung by rung , she crept up the ladder . |
| 46 | Without answering , she got out the frying pan and began to do him bacon and eggs . |
| 47 | She wondered what they would make of it as she got out the vacuum cleaner and started to run it over the drawing-room carpet . |
| 48 | She got out the mower to cut the back lawn . |
| 49 | Fish done , spuds on , she got out the asparagus and found they were plastic ! |
| 50 | Remembering how responsive Faye 's blood glucose level was to stress , she was about to monitor its level , but , as she got out the kit , Tom arrived , his tall figure catapulting into the room and only a slight untidiness to his dark hair betraying the fact that he had so recently been locked in Marise 's arms in the garden . |
| 51 | I waited at the carousel , Gillie fetched a trolley , and by the time she got back the bags had already come up . |
| 52 | It should have been a new beginning , a clean slate but , as she rode out the following morning , her head clouded from lack of sleep , Kelly knew that life was never that easy . |
| 53 | She straightened out the dead woman , folded her hands and tidied the bed . |
| 54 | She ruled out the idea of workfare , where claimants are forced to work for benefits or have them withdrawn , for all three million unemployed . |
| 55 | It is very easy for a Secretary to fail to capture the feeling of a meeting when he or she writes up the minutes . |
| 56 | Had she added up the facts wrongly , found him guilty more because it was what she had feared than that it was the truth ? |
| 57 | She helped up the old woman who insisted on seeing her out , and drew the curtains for her . |
| 58 | She lined up the sights on her rifle on its empty front foot and fired twice . |
| 59 | She phoned up the doctors and said she 'd make an appointment for me . |
| 60 | And she phoned up the Saturday , on Friday |