Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She became bogged down by the very size of the country , the lengthy supply lines , her inability to have her army spread thickly on the ground , the increasingly effective guerilla warfare waged by the Chinese communists , as well as by debilitating rivalries within the Japanese army itself . |
| 2 | On the following Monday she proposed to go back to the job she had taken to make it financially possible for Peter and her to buy their little home . |
| 3 | She tried looking out of the window to the hospital 's green lawns and the tall eucalypts that stood motionless against a gloriously blue August sky , but found that looking away seemed too impolite . |
| 4 | When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped . |
| 5 | Even though she tried to listen out for the sound of a returning car , the castle and the road leading up to it remained as silent as the grave . |
| 6 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 7 | She tried to make out from the hill , as she jogged down the track , whether the ferryboat was plying among the craft in the harbour . |
| 8 | When she tried to get out of the passenger door , he struck her again and called her more names . ’ |
| 9 | I talked to Mum , and she tried to think back to the day she met Elaine , and she remembered I was born in a nursing home in Birkleigh . |
| 10 | She tried to peer out of the peephole in her blind . |
| 11 | She tried to catch up with the machine , but she did n't want to attract any undue attention from the IMC troopers , and the thing seemed determined to ignore her . |
| 12 | She tried lying down on the bare mattress , but the whole place felt cold and close . |
| 13 | A teenage girl was seriously injured when a distress flare she found washed up on the beach at Margate , Kent , exploded in her pocket . |
| 14 | At the church she 'd ended up in the cliche/1 situation of being frozen out by Marius ' relatives . |
| 15 | She 'd moved over into the makeup chair and had been studying her own face in the mirror . |
| 16 | She 'd moved over by the window and had been reaching for a chair , but now she stopped . |
| 17 | Once she 'd stepped on to the platform , there was nothing to do but turn , step , step , turn and nowhere to look but straight ahead . |
| 18 | Nobody knew much about her , she 'd turned up in the town as a sort of companion-housekeeper to an old lady who had a house in Morrab Close , a Mrs Armitage — a widow . |
| 19 | Instead of liking the look of the water , wading in carefully and finding it was wonderful , she 'd tumbled in at the deep end . |
| 20 | Strange that David should be coming along at that very moment that she 'd emerged on to the main road . |
| 21 | She 'd stayed down in the lane with a sullen look on her face . |
| 22 | Close-to and without their performance wigs , these two hardly seemed to connect with anyone that she 'd seen out on the stage less than an hour before ; then they 'd been all front , carnival vamps , not so much real human beings as fantasy figures with hidden human operators . |
| 23 | She 'd gone back into the house to fetch something and his Dad was all ready in the car waiting to drive Uncle Walter back to his house . |
| 24 | She 'd gone down to the seashore with the dogs and there he 'd been , following her . |
| 25 | Well she 'd gone out through the door and the wind took her down the bloody street ! |
| 26 | June Roberts said she 'd gone out in the car , saying nothing except that she 'd be back in time for cocktails at the Clarkes ' as she had promised , a business thing for Samuel . |
| 27 | After all the signals of rejection she 'd sent out at the apartment — despite Marlin , despite the dangerous streets , despite the hour , despite their bitter history — she 'd come , bearing the gift of her body to his bed . |
| 28 | She was cracking those damn peppermints in her back teeth to disguise the fact she 'd called in at the Oyster Bar on her way up . ’ |
| 29 | As he moved away , Shannon sent a silent stream of curses after the mischievous imp in her soul which had landed her in this , desperately trying to remember the instructions she 'd skimmed through in the beginners ' ‘ learn-to-ski ’ handbook Kelly had given her . |
| 30 | Pete , thinking of the Venetz sisters ' reputation for efficiency and attention to detail , asked her if she 'd hit any problems over having no social security records or documentation ; she currently had the status of an illegal immigrant , after all , and had even dumped her hot French passport as she 'd walked out of the 78 air terminal . |