Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] she [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the evening after milking she walked in the garden alone , thinking about it . |
| 2 | After breakfast she went to the office to continue with the clerical work , but , before making a start , she tried to phone her aunt . |
| 3 | At last he raised his head , and with a feeling of dread she searched for the triumph she was sure she must see now in his eyes . |
| 4 | As a last gesture of independence she moved towards the door . |
| 5 | Having adjusted the heat and thus satisfactorily disposed of the problem of lunch she went to the bathroom for a shower and then returned to the bedroom . |
| 6 | It was a sardonic jibe , but as she reached out to accept the proffered wine she met his eyes , and felt jolted by the gleam of warmth she detected in the grey-green depths . |
| 7 | This sympathy may have explained the level of applause she got at the end of her opening song , so that she came more confidently to centre for her second . |
| 8 | In an ecstasy of selfishness she got into the magic train . |
| 9 | The loss of heart she experienced in May perhaps contributed to the loss of touch she demonstrated through the summer . |
| 10 | With repairs completed in the nick of time she sailed for the operation with a depleted crew . |
| 11 | Sweating with fear she wriggled through the hole , then ducked under the freight car and crawled slowly forward on her belly between the two sets of rails . |
| 12 | After cooking her watery stew one night and seeing her younger daughter into bed she went to the public library and looked up ‘ Death ’ in a concordance . |
| 13 | As the fire was crackling into life she headed for the small lavatory in the hall . |
| 14 | We have been promised a visit to another great showpiece in Peking — the Summer Palace built by the Dowager Empress last century from money she misappropriated from the naval funds ( so they tell us ) . |
| 15 | And with this in mind she returned to the reception desk to ask Stella if she could use the phone . |
| 16 | A quick glance at her watch showed that she would have time for a short walk outside before dinner , and with this in mind she sprang from the bed and raked a comb through her hair . |
| 17 | Now she grew herbs along the south-facing wall at the end ; and in summer she sat on the tiny lawn , smelling the yellow roses and watching the clematis creeping over the fence from next door . |
| 18 | Hugh did n't wake as she lay down on top of the sheet beside him and before dawn she fell into the heaviest sleep she had enjoyed that holiday . |
| 19 | In fact she lay in the warm , dark grey shadows of her room quite at peace for the first time since she had come to Italy . |
| 20 | He was still moving , slowly coming forward , and in desperation she felt along the shelf behind her for some means of defence . |
| 21 | In desperation she ran down the stairs and called at a neighbour ( whose young son happily was at home ) . |
| 22 | On impulse she hurried down the corridor to her daughter 's room and carefully opened the door a fraction . |
| 23 | When Finn had gone to bed she sat by the fire and looked at the flames . |
| 24 | On release she went to the mayor and so powerful were her reproaches that he ‘ acknowledged the truth of her doctrine ’ and henceforth attempted to protect Quakers . |
| 25 | So why on earth she objected to the brief and fairly innocuous cartoons which portrayed her as scantily clad in Tuesday 's Without Walls , is beyond me . |
| 26 | At home she belonged to the local Salvation Army corps , but gradually she became bored . |
| 27 | Although the moon was riding high in the sky , and shedding a rather weird , eerie glow on the flowering shrubs and various trees edging the green lawn , she was surprised at how much more calm and at ease she felt in the soft , enveloping darkness as she picked her way carefully over the sand . |