Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] [adv] [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 | Sally-Anne 's own preserve was the kitchen , where she ate either at the kitchen table , or , when that was full , at a small card table which was folded up and put away when she had finished . |
| 4 | She went into the living room where she settled down at the dining table to mark compositions . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They passed close to her , where she crouched still in the bushes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | His fingers brushed lightly across her lips , tracing a path of flame that she felt even in the midst of her anger . |
| 11 | They may have been glad , since she was turning out to be hard to amuse , that she slept deeply in the early afternoons . |
| 12 | It was on the rebound from Higginbotham that she took up with the first boy that she came near to liking . |
| 13 | But her best-known theatre role in the city has to be as Shirley Valentine , the acclaimed Willy Russell play that she took all over the country four years ago . |
| 14 | It is a low repetitive moan that she keeps up for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was a foolish thing to do , she knew that a fraction of a second too late ; he cannoned into her with such force that she fell heavily to the ground . |
| 18 | ‘ Dammit to hell , ’ he cursed , letting her go abruptly so that she fell back on the bed in an untidy heap . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He pushed her away so that she fell hard against the door . |
| 21 | It was not until they levelled out that she thought again about the possibility of living to a ripe old age . |
| 22 | Of course it may be that she returned here with the deceased last night and he went out again on his own , but it does n't seem likely . ’ |
| 23 | Little that is definite is known of her early years , except that she was said to have been a backward child ; that she was sent to a private school , Hope House , in Taunton ; that she broke away from the family tradition of Methodism and became an Anglican ; and that she came to the attention of Dorothea Beale [ q.v. ] , and taught at Cheltenham Ladies ' College from 1877 until 1881 . |
| 24 | No-one cared that she jacked in to the lock on the tutor 's door , feeling around mentally to jig it open . |
| 25 | What I liked about her was that she charged less in the 6ds than she did in the 1/3s : she had a sliding scale . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A tidal wave of desire powered through her — breathtaking and terrifying , a craving so fierce that she surrendered completely to the sweet persistence of his seductive mouth . |
| 29 | Her legs took the decision from her , buckling so quickly that she stumbled back to the bed . |
| 30 | 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 . |