Example sentences of "she turn the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turns the water to steam and frees the light inside her , twisting and turning in a sparkling , spinning column . |
| 2 | She turns the Government 's self-help approach around by arguing that urban recovery will only be achieved by empowering the people who live in cities . |
| 3 | Then Susan comes in , and when she has put down the tray she is carrying , she turns the light on beside his chair and draws the curtains so that the room becomes a series of pools of light , isolating each of us . |
| 4 | ‘ Fit as a fiddle , darlin , ’ and I can hear , faintly , through the twisted frenzy of my own pelvis , a cheerful rustle as she turns the pages of her magazine . |
| 5 | She turns the sound down . |
| 6 | She turned the spray and stained the white front of his shirt blood red , then turned back and slowly wrote ‘ carnal knowledge ’ , ‘ impudicity ’ . |
| 7 | She turned the light on and got out of bed . |
| 8 | As she turned the corner into Perry Street her heart began to pound . |
| 9 | Then she turned the car and drove off down the lane . |
| 10 | Then she turned the key , slowly and quietly , and opened the door . |
| 11 | She turned the page with elegant fingers , seemingly unaware that Frankie had entered the room . |
| 12 | The room was silent save for the angry swishing sound she made each time she turned the magazine 's pages . |
| 13 | She turned the ignition key . |
| 14 | She turned the key on the shining walnut dashboard and pressed the starter button . |
| 15 | Still , she said as she turned the corner of the High Street . |
| 16 | Salt 's great shoulders twitched as she turned the pie and put it back , but she did n't deny it . |
| 17 | This was the very thought in her head as she turned the corner of the corridor and back into the waiting room and saw the weeping figure of a woman hunched over and hugging herself with grief . |
| 18 | She was in fact a magnificent figure of a woman , with no sag or spread ; only , nursing the children had given her a fullness of the breasts which would not lessen , although she turned the little Olivia over to a servant with a feeding-bottle as soon as one could be found . |
| 19 | To make doubly sure of this she turned the key in the lock as she went out . |
| 20 | Finally she turned the book over and read the brief notes about the author ; and her deep unease of earlier that morning returned , but she crushed it down . |
| 21 | Almost disinterestedly , she turned the paper over , and gave a gasp of shock , her heart missing a beat . |
| 22 | Now she stood at the gate of Ten-acre Pasture , staring across the hedgetops to the control tower that jutted into the gentle landscape with angular obscenity , begging silently that when she turned the corner he would be there . |
| 23 | She turned the tap on , and the plumbing clanged . |
| 24 | Knowing that she turned the peeping Toms on with her performances — and that they could do nothing about it as they sat there , transfixed by her sex and her flagrant use of it . |
| 25 | She turned the volume down instead of up and went to the door , which she 'd dutifully bolted and chained . |
| 26 | She turned the music down and picked up the receiver . |
| 27 | Then , when she turned the corner , he went out to the hall and picked up the phone . |
| 28 | She turned the key in the lock ; the heavy door swung open and she and her family were admitted to the house . |
| 29 | She turned the handle of the spit when the Algerian gigots were roasted , larded with garlic and anchovies , in a kind of oval cage of iron slats in front of a hot fire of vine-stumps inside the huge hearth ; she sat on a bench inside the cheminée , turning the ratchet as it wound down , basting the lamb with oil and its own juices from a diabolical long spoon . |
| 30 | Yes , she turned the idea over in her mind . |