Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd better get her into bed , ’ Otley urged , ‘ before she goes sleepwalking down to the river and falls in . ’ |
| 2 | She sits curled up on the couch in the sitting room of her house high above the ocean in Malibu , and gets just slightly dewy-eyed as she talks about her family and the early days . |
| 3 | She sits curled up in the corner of the sofa with her feet tucked under her and her half-written letter to her cousin waiting in her lap . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When we finally spill outside , Rachel says she wants to go down to the beach again . |
| 6 | I know she wants to get out of the house , I know |
| 7 | Erm , I wondered if I should ask her if she 's going to the chinese tomorrow if she wants to drop in on the way home . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When she tried to get out of the passenger door , he struck her again and called her more names . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She tried to peer out of the peephole in her blind . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She tried lying down on the bare mattress , but the whole place felt cold and close . |
| 19 | I actually have at the back which I will show in a minute , a costume that was worn by a woman in the eighteen-forties , and it shows how she has kept up with the fashion ; it is a fairly fashionable dress , but it is adapted for real life , for day to day life , for for the life of an ordinary middle class woman who had perhaps one or two servants , but had to do the running of the household herself . |
| 20 | She has sidled out of the kitchen . |
| 21 | ‘ You will wake Widow MacIntosh — ‘ She is not here , you fool — she has gone off with the mob . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’ |
| 23 | The fact that she has fought back to the level that she has now attained is a tribute to the loving care , encouragement and inspiration given her by her parents . |
| 24 | Several times she has wandered out into the street while Mrs Smith was asleep , although now the front door is kept double-locked at night to prevent this from happening . |
| 25 | What , the two er eldest have to wash up and she has to sweep up round the table . |
| 26 | A teenage girl was seriously injured when a distress flare she found washed up on the beach at Margate , Kent , exploded in her pocket . |
| 27 | My daughter 's idea of a good film is one where she starts crying round about the end of the queue for tickets . |
| 28 | At the church she 'd ended up in the cliche/1 situation of being frozen out by Marius ' relatives . |
| 29 | She 'd moved over into the makeup chair and had been studying her own face in the mirror . |
| 30 | She 'd moved over by the window and had been reaching for a chair , but now she stopped . |