Example sentences of "she [vb past] on [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She choked on her own revulsion ; and she panicked . |
| 2 | We linked wrists beneath her knees ; she lolled on our stretched arms like a great bundle of washing with a body in it , the victim of some obscene murder . |
| 3 | The mother — who believes she passed on her 50-a-day habit to the girl while she was pregnant — revealed that Cherie had been diagnosed a nicotine addict by a doctor . |
| 4 | Yesterday , in Pittsburgh , she tried on her new school uniform for the first time but she was not too happy about the tie . |
| 5 | So she concentrated on his last remark . |
| 6 | Ashamed of the breach he 'd made in her defences , she drew on her inner courage to confront him , tilting her chin fiercely . |
| 7 | She drew on her lower lip . |
| 8 | A foot of space between them , she turned on her opposite side to face him . |
| 9 | She turned on his heavy-duty torch . |
| 10 | Wondering whether English was still taught in schools , she commented on her 114th birthday : ‘ Many of the people I hear on the telephone do n't even know how to speak the language properly . ’ |
| 11 | Evidently that had been broken off very soon after she arrived on her first station . |
| 12 | Throughout the 1920s and 1930s her moderate and conciliatory personality worked to mediate between the revolutionary and the gradualist wings of the Women 's International League ( founded under Jane Addams at The Hague in 1915 ) as she served on its international executive . |
| 13 | I love Lucy , she breathed on her eighth orgasm and slept like a loved and wanted baby . |
| 14 | At last Lucenzo buttoned his coat , and she pulled on her woollen gloves just as the taxi came to a halt . |
| 15 | Silently she brooded on her own thoughts , unwilling to admit to herself that he presented a challenge . |
| 16 | She bit on her bottom lip as he moved into her roughly , his breath coming faster and changing to a pant . |
| 17 | But one day she asked if she could stay out the whole day , and away she went on her little pony , with her two dogs running behind . |
| 18 | ‘ Without them it would n't have been possible , ’ swooned the ebony-tressed editrice as she eased on her crushed-velvet vermilion robes . |
| 19 | She put on her prettiest night dress , and took longer than usual to brush her hair ; she put a dab of perfume behind her ears — on her neck — between her breasts . |
| 20 | As I let her in , she put on her best funeral face . |
| 21 | She put on her own sunglasses and looked out across the worn pitch . |
| 22 | She had on her usual pair of National Health glasses , and on her feet a rather unrelenting pair of Dr Martens in brown , which gave the impression that she was about to take up hill-walking . |
| 23 | They 'd been in it only a year , but Mrs Yardley had lavished as much effort on it as she had on her beautiful cake . |
| 24 | She nipped on her bottom lip . |
| 25 | Now , undressed , she stood on her discarded clothes . |