Example sentences of "[noun pl] she [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 And with these words she thumped off down the stairs , leaving me to collect my thoughts for the hard task of Testifying .
2 Both of them were breathing hard , such a hurry and scramble of lips , hands , such a heat inside and between them , he stuffed one small breast into his mouth and then the other , giving her the same churn of astonished guilty pleasure as when she lay on her bed in the afternoons and read the forbidden books she smuggled home from the library .
3 Staggering to her feet she looked back towards the wounded man ; he had slumped to the floor , and was trying to push himself back to a kneeling position .
4 What is certain is that she will stamp her own identity on whatever activities she heads up within the White House .
5 Running her tongue across her teeth she glared down at the object of her annoyance .
6 Every few minutes she glanced again at the postcard .
7 After a few minutes she padded back into the bedroom wrapped in a big fluffy towel .
8 Sister Act pairs Whoopi with another Oscar-winning actress Maggie Smith in a tale of a nun on the run and the change of fortunes she brings about in the convent where she seeks sanctuary .
9 At C. Mellings , Printers and Stationers she went straight through the shop and upstairs , and into her father 's room .
10 With a couple of tins in her arms she rolled through into the whirling darkness of the antarctic night and pegged the billowing plastic down with a handful of icy stones .
11 Drawing the curtain across the windows she looked out on the gloomy , almost deserted street .
12 After a few moments she climbed down to the space station and ran off in the opposite direction to the shapechanger .
13 Finding herself in severe financial straits she went along to the appropriate authority to ask for money to buy food for her children .
14 Thérèse says it was all there in the letters she got back from the convent .
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