Example sentences of "[noun] she [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After one more anxious glance she took off for the other end of the pool and a quick look showed that he was already on his way , moving with powerful strokes and keeping well clear of her . |
| 2 | Returning to the bedroom she crept back to the bed , raised the knife and without a moment 's thought drove it down into the sleeper 's chest . |
| 3 | In fact , it was the extra revenue she brought in at the baby end that enabled the charity to open up units for cervical cancer , and fund other research into unappealing but equally vital conditions . |
| 4 | Getting up from her seat she walked over to the radio cabinet . |
| 5 | At the end of the ceremony she tottered off to the bus , looking as if she had every intention of popping in to the local when she got home and livening everyone up with a steady dropping of ‘ To think our ‘ Ilda should go before me ’ remarks . |
| 6 | It was the piece she liked best in the whole house . |
| 7 | And with these words she thumped off down the stairs , leaving me to collect my thoughts for the hard task of Testifying . |
| 8 | On a Saturday she went up to the attic . |
| 9 | With a little moan of fear she scrambled out of the car and raced to the house to hammer on the door , but it opened at the first blow from her fist . |
| 10 | Both of them were breathing hard , such a hurry and scramble of lips , hands , such a heat inside and between them , he stuffed one small breast into his mouth and then the other , giving her the same churn of astonished guilty pleasure as when she lay on her bed in the afternoons and read the forbidden books she smuggled home from the library . |
| 11 | I ca n't take my eyes off this beautiful woman and as if sensing my gaze she hurries off to the adjoining room to get dressed . |
| 12 | Staggering to her feet she looked back towards the wounded man ; he had slumped to the floor , and was trying to push himself back to a kneeling position . |
| 13 | With a heavy sigh she lay back on the pile of beach cushions , closing her eyes against the early-morning sun , already climbing high in the sky . |
| 14 | Then with a sigh she sank on to the hyacinth-coloured bedspread , feeling the soft springs of the mattress bounce beneath her weight . |
| 15 | As a child she roamed freely along the country lanes , knew the wild flowers by name and smell and the birds in dialect . |
| 16 | Rose listened , open-mouthed , and at the end of this recital she jumped down from the wicker basket and hugged Ruth all over again . |
| 17 | At the bottom of the companionway she struggled out of the wet oilskins and dropped them on the floor in a heap . |
| 18 | Oh Carolina is a girl she buck up in the |
| 19 | Using the fork like a pick she chipped away at the soil . |
| 20 | What is certain is that she will stamp her own identity on whatever activities she heads up within the White House . |
| 21 | Running her tongue across her teeth she glared down at the object of her annoyance . |
| 22 | Her earliest memory was of him holding her tightly by the hand , when she was just a toddler , in case she strayed too near the rushing river . |
| 23 | Without a moment 's hesitation she jumped down from the platform of the bus , as the driver slammed on the brakes , swearing : ‘ Make up yer bleeding mind , for Gawd 's sake ! ’ |
| 24 | She scorned the ‘ literary ’ but still believed in the literature she admires here in the work of Christina Stead , Louise Erdich , and in the best discussion of Jane Eyre you will ever read . |
| 25 | With a quick wave she darted off through the clusters of people , and Caroline was left facing Roman , abruptly gripped by shyness as well as the usual quietly simmering resentment . |
| 26 | Every few minutes she glanced again at the postcard . |
| 27 | After a few minutes she padded back into the bedroom wrapped in a big fluffy towel . |
| 28 | Because it had always been in the back of her mind , from the moment she got up in the morning until she went to bed at night . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , ’ said Betty , but after a moment she went out to the stream leaving Lydia to sit back on her heels and wonder why she found dressing-gowns and slippers so tawdry . |
| 30 | After a moment she came out on the landing and she was dressing . |