Example sentences of "she [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Would she be taken out into the slaughter yard behind the servants ' quarters and have her throat cut ?
2 She could hear guests on the tennis-courts ; if she were to walk back to the house now , straightway , taking the short cut , she could avoid them .
3 It was still not yet fully dark outside , and if she were to look out of the window , she would be able to see at once whether the outside world was part of her own world or whether it , too , was caught in this terrifying time slip .
4 She 'll go up to you and she goes she looks at you like that and her eyes are all wide , sh sh she 's looking down at the wall like that to make sure it 's all clear , you know what I mean ?
5 The man may feel that , if she 's harking back to the whys and wherefores , his wife is rubbing his nose in the past .
6 She 's out enjoying a Saturday shopping trip — there are people coming to dinner tonight , and when she 's stocked up on the basic necessities , she 'll choose some extra delights from the delicatessen .
7 Tell Mamma she 's run out into the rain — what a bad animal she is ! ’
8 My mum wakes up and I wake up at two , because she 's pottering around in the kitchen , , banging about a bit more than usual .
9 Yeah , but then the times when she could be with him she 's buzzing around in the car so what
10 These will be for family use only , but she 's branching out in the commercial food market soon with a line of American foods , with the help of husband Chris .
11 Nom I 'll have to sneak out while she 's tied up with the party .
12 Erm , the book here is the one that she 's working on at the moment .
13 With partner Jill Clark , she 's won through to the quarter-finals of the Japanese Open after beating the world 's number two pair from Indonesia .
14 She 's already provided the couple with a tape of tribal fertility dances to ‘ release endorphins in the pelvic region ’ and before long she 's going on about the healing properties of dolphins .
15 She 's going back to the Isle of Wight .
16 ‘ Well , she 's pissed off with the boy for a cultural break . ’
17 Well I 'll be done because I usually go for the paper Rose , quite often Harvey 's said she 's coming out along the High Street five past at five past eight on a Monday morning .
18 She 's coming back in the .
19 She is led out of the cell , and the firing squad is lining up .
20 As an American commentator put it , ‘ a duchess abdicates when her son comes to his title ; she is turned out of the mansion where she once presided … ’ especially through this single-minded concentration of resources through inheritance on a principal heir that the English aristocracy were able to tighten their grip on the land .
21 She is fed up with the naval life ? ’
22 Mrs Strange used to be at the piano when Seven Towers sang and now that she is stepping up to the rostrum , Kathryn , daughter of bass singer and choir secretary Jack Clarke , is replacing her .
23 The old man repudiates her and she is driven out of the house by her half-brother and a gang of servants :
24 She was looking down to the garden gate , which at that moment Greg Hocking was closing carefully behind him .
25 She was looking down at the water , which was only inches deep .
26 She was looking down at the two children , her face animated as she turned the page of the book on her lap .
27 Her gaze distant , as though she was looking back into the past , she continued , ‘ It would n't have been easy , staying here , but I dare say we would have managed .
28 She was looking out into the vault of air above the sea .
29 Grace 's mother was in the room now , and she was looking out of the window with her husband and daughter .
30 She 'd reclined the seat again but she was n't sleeping ; her head was turned aside and she was looking out of the window , not really seeing anything .
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