Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | No-one cared that she jacked in to the lock on the tutor 's door , feeling around mentally to jig it open . |
| 4 | Her legs took the decision from her , buckling so quickly that she stumbled back to the bed . |
| 5 | There was no food in the chalet , so she went up to the house . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No sound came from the garden , so she crept along to the gate and squeezed herself under . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And she goes up to the two blokes and she grabs them by the balls and goes mm not bad , nice butt , you know ? |
| 11 | He turned the horse away and walked off , ignoring her , and she went back to the house seething with annoyance . |
| 12 | He gave her a quick nod of approval and she went down to the end of the shop and began filling in the certificates , taking her information from the records Mr Miller had already made . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm going to cry until I 'm ill ! ’ and she dropped on to the floor , her shoulders shaking and the tears rolling down her face . |
| 14 | And she stalked off to the foyer . |
| 15 | And she flounced up to the house , her long black hair swinging rebelliously down her back from under her red woollen cap . |
| 16 | But she woke early one morning to see the sun shining into her room , and she ran out to the secret garden at once . |
| 17 | And she took the skin and she ran down to the shore and she put on the skin , dived back into the sea . |
| 18 | They smiled and waved at her , and she hurried back to the desk blushing . |
| 19 | Her thinking grabbed her and she raced down to the beach , and followed the rocky shoreline looking for signs of him , but saw nothing . |
| 20 | And she comes back to the Counts of Lusignan to foretell deaths — she is a kind of Dame Blanche , or Fata Bianca . |
| 21 | I said , no , but if she came out to the perimeter fence again , that 'd be the time . |
| 22 | And if she comes back to the house , she wo n't be able to find me , so I got to stay there . |
| 23 | But she clung on to the post , her body sinking to the floor , oblivious to the groans that issued from her own throat , and the words that formed on her lips . |
| 24 | She was not particularly hungry , but she went down to the hotel 's dining-room around eight that evening , then returned to her room to spend a fitful night . |
| 25 | At first her father had tried persuasion , but she was intransigent : brute force , but she ran back to the woods the moment she could : custodial restraint , but he could not bear the sight and sound of her pining . |
| 26 | The Sun reminded its readers that ‘ it was his flag which helped cover topless streaker Erika Rowe [ sic ] after she ran on to the turf at Twickenham during a rugby international in 1982 ’ . |
| 27 | Erm she 's doing numeracy power with them at the moment before she gets on to the because I believe she 's got to sort out some programs for as yet . |
| 28 | Get up with Mum , have a coffee with her before she went off to the early shift , lay the table , shout up to the little ones to get up or else , put the bacon on the grill , put the beans in the pan , butter the bread , boil the kettle . |
| 29 | There was a terrible row between em just before she went out to the boat an got blown up , God rest 'er soul . |
| 30 | One last peer before she went back to the basting brought a gasp from Sally : He 's coming this way ! ’ |