Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Getting up from her seat she walked over to the radio cabinet . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Then with a sigh she sank on to the hyacinth-coloured bedspread , feeling the soft springs of the mattress bounce beneath her weight . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | At one point she roamed over to the window and gazed out . |
| 8 | When Flavia remembered that tomorrow was going to be her essay day she ran up to the tower to fetch some essential-books which she set out with grim awareness on the dining-room table at the villa . |
| 9 | Last night she bowled along to the Royal Geographical Society to attend a lecture by Edward Whitley , a young writer recently returned from Madagascar with Gerald Durrell . |
| 10 | In anger she swims back to the landing-stage where he sits , his feet dangling in the water . |
| 11 | Whenever she was free from the brewing she hurried up to the bower to spin with the other women . |
| 12 | When she had undressed and put it on without catching her own eye in the mirror she went back to the other room and dumped the handbag on top of the dressing-table . |
| 13 | At the end she turned off to the right and there was I with nothing to look at . |
| 14 | She bought a few bits and pieces from the post office and was feeling thoroughly deflated by the time she got back to the house . |
| 15 | The next time she came down to the village was after a day or two . |
| 16 | Putting the envelope back on the hall table she went out to the shed for her bike . |