Example sentences of "she [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 31 | So too was Maud , the daughter of Holroyd Smith , who later recalled that auspicious day she rode on the top deck of car 5 after the opening ceremony and played with the chain of ‘ a very jolly Mayor ’ who sat next to her . |
| 32 | She succeeded on the bill of sale point but Russell J. went on to consider her second line of defence . |
| 33 | But just as she was burying her head beneath the blanket in utter dejection Ella came to bed , and she passed on the most extraordinary piece of news . |
| 34 | President Marjorie Clarke expressed pleasure at seeing Kay Hampton back after her recent illness and she reported on the good progress being made by Sue Rankin and Miss Elliott who had also been ill . |
| 35 | unless I phone them up tomorrow and say look , you know , I , she , if she keeping on the club she 'll go backdate it |
| 36 | Maybe , the Mountie said , but if she was as upset as all that , why had she come on the train at all ? |
| 37 | ‘ She lives on the estate but so do other people . |
| 38 | she finishes on the |
| 39 | She sucked on the joint and put her head back . |
| 40 | She stands on the step looking more solid than the door . |
| 41 | I hate it cos when I call Jones she stands on the wall like that , right . |
| 42 | In the last chapter she meditates on the meaning of suffering . |
| 43 | She beat on the tree with her fists , she threw her arms as far round the tree as they would reach and then , despite the relentless rain , the saturated ground and the penetrating cold , she fell on her knees at its foot , unable to muster the will to walk on . |
| 44 | Greg smashes his guitar , shoulder-barges the others , lurches suggestively over his co-singer , Paula Kelley , as she squats on the floor screaming her lungs out , leads an inspired , funny and very , very noisy version of ‘ Fight For Your Right To Party ’ , and finally stage-dives into the crush of pissed students who 've spent the evening trying to steal his microphone . |
| 45 | And it took our model 's breath away when she tried on the ring … its facets sparkling like a waterfall around the dimly-lit room . |
| 46 | Reaching Blairgowrie , the small town nearest the slopes of Glenshee , Shannon stopped to collect the ski equipment she 'd hired in advance , feeling patently ridiculous as she tried on the heavy boots for size . |
| 47 | At Matilda 's insistence she tried on the gown then and there , even forgetting her tattered shift until her old dress was whisked away . |
| 48 | She concentrated on the culinary . |
| 49 | We talked as we went along , but Jane 's conversation became increasingly vague and absent-minded as she concentrated on the work in hand . |
| 50 | Instead she concentrated on the completion , launch and shakedown of her new Mike Pockock-designed short-handed racing boat Q2 , a truly innovative yacht , custom-built and designed to win her class in the 1992 single-handed transatlantic race . |
| 51 | She concentrated on the face in her mind 's eye , the single eye that saw in the dark and coloured things in . |
| 52 | She concentrated on the interior doorhandles of the cab and changed their design several times , just for practice , then smoothed them out entirely . |
| 53 | She concentrated on the one with the trousers and said she was looking for George . |
| 54 | She went steadily on , from foothold to foothold , only stopping to peel off her glove now and then and push a finger into the wet fringed mouth of a sea-anemone , but mostly she concentrated on the next step , the next handhold , with the sea on one side of her , the swell of grassy land the other . |
| 55 | She concentrated on the light and on breathing . |
| 56 | She also had been able to put her feelings on hold as she concentrated on the problems facing her . |
| 57 | She concentrated on the clouds , which moved quickly and smoothly as a train across the top of the hills . |
| 58 | There was no time for emotion as the blood was swabbed away and she concentrated on the badly gashed cheekbone . |
| 59 | She concentrated on the fire , producing something that owed more to determination than competence . |
| 60 | She knelt on the cold stone floor and carefully placed some coals on the dying embers in the grate . |