Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv prt] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope she goes on crying until the time comes for them to wrap a shroud round her . " |
| 2 | The heiress travels to Florida for some yachting but her sloop is run down and sunk by one of her own commercial schooners ; she is saved but she has lost her memory ; she ends up working on the cutting-tables in her own factory and falls in love with a manager whose previous requests for better conditions she had been happy to ignore . |
| 3 | She started out walking along the main drag in the Miraflores commercial district , Avenue Larco , with a small case strapped to her neck , hawking cigarettes and chocolates . |
| 4 | Kate felt her cheeks tinge once more with pink as she went on listening to the good-natured chaff Mike Booker was taking on her behalf . |
| 5 | When Glass started his studies , Boulanger was 75 and she went on teaching until the age of 92 . |
| 6 | she did she went on talking through the letter box to them |
| 7 | And then he gave orders to Punch for tea to be prepared and they had a terrible time finding any china that was n't cracked or broken and then she went on working in the pantry as quiet as a mouse and she could hear you both talking as clear as clear . |
| 8 | She went out shopping in the car with me |
| 9 | But mainly she kept on bodyboarding on the quieter waves between Sunset and Backyards , going to parties , hanging out at the Sugar Bar , and talking to her friends on the telephone . |
| 10 | Despite receiving a lot of help she gave up looking after the child , asking her mother-in-law to do so with increasing frequency . |
| 11 | Alcohol made these symptoms worse , she noticed , so she gave up drinking at the age of 20 . |
| 12 | As soon as she gave up dancing in the line to supervise the school , her nubile appearance became plump as she enjoyed dining well , a pleasure shared with John where the plumpness developed into fatness . |
| 13 | She burst out laughing at the absurdity of it , laughed until she cried , and when the tears came he groped across the table to touch her hand around the empty glass . |
| 14 | She carries on mowing with the vacuum cleaner . |
| 15 | She ended up eating from the cat 's bowl . |
| 16 | Suddenly unable to sit still , she stood up and began pacing the floor until she ended up sitting by the phone . |
| 17 | ‘ Tell her , if she comes back bothering about the hay , she can turn it herself . |