Example sentences of "she [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 31 | She switched on the engine and headed back on to the road . |
| 32 | Naked , she switched on the powerful shower-jets , and raised her voice to be heard above them . |
| 33 | She switched on the shower and tested the water , then looked round for some shampoo to wash the rest of the snarls from her hair . |
| 34 | Abruptly she switched on the light . |
| 35 | By rights she should be sleeping the sleep of the just by now , she realised despondently as she switched on the bedside lamp — instead she 'd been reliving everything over and over in her mind . |
| 36 | But she 's not really complaining : Mozart launched her international career at the 1982 Aix Festival when at short notice , and at only 25 , she took on the role of Pamina in The Magic Flute . |
| 37 | She took on the ‘ difficult ’ painter more out of sympathy for Zborowski 's hopeless task than of belief in Modigliani . |
| 38 | With an unusual daring for a Tiller she took on the life of a Broadway dancer , the men flocked to her and she basked in their admiration . |
| 39 | She took on the alias in a bid to avoid publicity when dealing with her solicitor Paul Butner . |
| 40 | Sylvie could barely remember the woman who had drowned herself , but through his words she took on the grand status of a tormented romantic . |
| 41 | But no sooner had she switched on the electric kettle than the phone began to ring . |
| 42 | She put on the other record , save Pergolesi for later when surely they 'd be alone . |
| 43 | She put on the light . |
| 44 | When Martha was ready for home , she put on the pink bodice and Elizabeth dressed her hair . |
| 45 | She put on the black and white dress , hesitating a moment as she looked at herself and thought , it 's too smart . |
| 46 | She even put on sheer stockings and a brief pleated skirt instead of her usual jeans , then , as final proof of her new outlook on life , she put on the new pink sweater and danced out into the sitting-room , calling . |
| 47 | In an instant Fabia was wide awake and , with a drumming heart , she put on the light . |
| 48 | and she put on the back of this one she was thankful that at least I 'd managed this time to get the mark in the area where it should have been in the first |
| 49 | Did she put on the magic dress , the dress made of pain and courage and become herself transformed , into a human woman , lovely and gentle , whom some other wicked creature had once enchanted too ? |
| 50 | ‘ You know she carried on the business alone when her father died , got guts has that girl . ’ |
| 51 | She switches on the light . |
| 52 | It was these that made her carry on the conversation . |