Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cynthia stood up and walked across to the window , where she stared out across the busy London street . |
| 2 | Sliding her arm from beneath him , Beth got out of bed and , wrapping her robe about her shivering form , went first to the window , where she looked out at the moonlit night . |
| 3 | She went into the living room where she settled down at the dining table to mark compositions . |
| 4 | Fabia reached Ven 's suite and let herself in , walked across the sitting-room and into her bedroom where she sat down on the edge of the bed , and felt , for the moment , defeated . |
| 5 | She slammed the boot down , with a cry of ‘ God Almighty ! ’ and ran indoors , where she sat down at the kitchen table and beat her fists against the wood , with anger , with frustration , with a sudden , desperate concern for Nick . |
| 6 | The person ‘ goosed ’ then chases round and tries to catch the runner before he or she gets back to the space where the goosed person was sitting . |
| 7 | Although she turns up for the interview her customary peaked-capped urchin self , she is worried that her feminist interpreters will consider her video a sell-out . |
| 8 | It was on the rebound from Higginbotham that she took up with the first boy that she came near to liking . |
| 9 | It is a low repetitive moan that she keeps up for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 10 | She hesitated over several , dark , rather unobtrusive garments in one corner , thinking that they looked harmless until two creeping , fog-like hands reached for her and an evil chuckle filled the room , so that she shot back to the room 's centre out of their reach . |
| 11 | She was all but out of the door on her way to Oxford Street when , incredibly , she found herself shaking , so much so that she went back into the tiny bedroom and lay down . |
| 12 | ‘ Dammit to hell , ’ he cursed , letting her go abruptly so that she fell back on the bed in an untidy heap . |
| 13 | She could feel the moment when he decided to thrust her away from him , abruptly stepping back , the shock of their coming apart striking as swift as a blow , stunning her , so that she fell back against the parapet , her lips swollen by the passion of his taking , a soft anguished breath escaping from between them . |
| 14 | No-one cared that she jacked in to the lock on the tutor 's door , feeling around mentally to jig it open . |
| 15 | Wendy was so furious at the demand by the bank , whose motto is ‘ We are here to make life easier ’ , that she stormed out of the branch in Eastwood , Notts . |
| 16 | The discreet feelers that she put out during the drive back to Anduze met with monosyllabic replies that indicated , firmly but politely , that the matter was no concern of hers . |
| 17 | Her legs took the decision from her , buckling so quickly that she stumbled back to the bed . |
| 18 | When the telephone rang Leonora got up listlessly , so certain it would be one of Elise 's friends that she slid down on the floor in a heap , heart thumping , at the sound of Penry 's voice . |
| 19 | The room was silent as she scrabbled in her box of pieces and , from the very bottom , produced a couple that she set down on the board with two decisive clicks . |
| 20 | This means that she jumped out of the aircraft by herself and her parachute opened automatically seconds later . |
| 21 | There was no food in the chalet , so she went up to the house . |
| 22 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 23 | She tried reading him Wordsworth and Tennyson and Browning but he would sigh and interrupt her when she did , so she went back to the lighter Kipling poems and he would lie and grin happily to himself and make her read his favourite passages over and over again . |
| 24 | she said , so she goes up on the step now , goes to this |
| 25 | No sound came from the garden , so she crept along to the gate and squeezed herself under . |
| 26 | All the same , she badly needed some air and solitude , so she stepped out to the veranda , closed the door silently behind her , slipped off her high heels and held them in one hand , then padded on silent stockinged feet down the back stairs and into the garden . |
| 27 | ‘ See you tomorrow , ’ she called to Sally but could n't think of anything to say to the man , so she ran off after the others . |
| 28 | There was no arguing with him , and it was very pleasant to have someone caring , so she sat back in the seat without further protest . |
| 29 | His deep , even breathing told her he had fallen asleep again , so she slipped out of the room and left him to it . |
| 30 | She remembered nothing more until she woke up in the ambulance . |