Example sentences of "[verb] she [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When one cooled she picked up the other and spat to test it . |
| 2 | I helped her keep up the house . |
| 3 | In a great gesture of trust , Josie let her switch off the lights unsupervised . |
| 4 | The girl who was dressing her pulled up the zipper while Paula kicked off a pair of black suede shoes and eased her feet into crocodile ones . |
| 5 | She could n't think what had made her blurt out the goading words . |
| 6 | ‘ They 're aw' the same , ’ Isa lifted her knitting out the carrier together with a badly printed pattern clipped from a copy of The People 's Friend that she had found on the train to Wemyss Bay . |
| 7 | They took her to her stall in the market , demanding she handed over the arms and propaganda they accused her of storing there . |
| 8 | Too often she had seen her mother frowning with anxiety as she divided the contents of her father 's wage packet up between the jars labelled ‘ Rent ’ and ‘ Electric ’ and ‘ Coal Money ’ , too often at the end of the week she had watched her count out the pennies for a pound of sausages only to be able to buy just a half-pound , two for her father , one each for Paula and Sally , and only the scrapings of the pan to go with her own potatoes . |
| 9 | I always remember 'er walkin' up the turnin' wiv 'er 'ead 'eld up . |
| 10 | ‘ You know she carried on the business alone when her father died , got guts has that girl . ’ |
| 11 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
| 12 | This is done as follows : If the number ‘ one ’ is called she spells out the letters O N E to land on the yellow smartie . |
| 13 | The apartment 's previous owners had hired an expensive interior designer from New York and ordered her to trick out the rooms in a horse-country olde-English Spy-Cartoons look , which had been done to extravagant perfection , but McIllvanney was none of those things . |
| 14 | Tweed , who had refused to let her take over the wheel , appeared outwardly to be perfectly relaxed as he stopped and presented the passport in the name of William Sanders . |
| 15 | They heard her go down the passage , then the disagreement about telephoning the police was renewed . |
| 16 | When the horn was robed she threaded back the leather of the necklace and gave it to Dreamer , who put it round his neck and tucked this frail memory of the broken boy into his furs . |
| 17 | I did n't expect to see her coming out the side door like that . ’ |
| 18 | And no , no , I would n't want her to end up the same way as I did . ’ |
| 19 | For some reason , he did n't want her to check out the vault . |
| 20 | But a perverse urge to take advantage of his rare willingness to be seen out with her made her bite back the words , and she went off to discard her shorts in favour of a slim straight dress , the fine cotton-knit a subtle sage green . |
| 21 | It was these that made her carry on the conversation . |
| 22 | Once in , it seemed nothing , absolutely nothing , could make her give up the job she loved . |
| 23 | When the headmistress , with some guilt , asked her to take over the school 's unpopular Commonwealth Society she rolled up her sleeves and cleaned out the dusty room that had been hung with torn posters depicting ‘ Tea-picking in Ceylon , ‘ Coffee Growing in Kenya , ’ and ‘ Sheep Farming in Australia . ’ |
| 24 | Although the older sister lived away , she travelled to stay with her sister occasionally and during one visit , after she made her allegations in a family meeting which she had joined , the counsellor asked her to take over the caring role for the final week of her stay so that her sister could actually see how it should be done . |
| 25 | Ill health and bereavement are the most common needs for which the charity gives assistance — for example , it has recently helped a member whose career was terminated by multiple sclerosis to buy an electric wheelchair , and given a loan to a member 's widow reliant on state benefits to enable her to pay off the disputed partnership settlement debts accrued when her husband died . |
| 26 | As she went she picked up the expensive bottle of wine . |
| 27 | This almost welcoming message kept her going down the raccordo to Siena . |
| 28 | When , in well-cut white satin and glycerine tears , she sobbed , Oh but Daddy I do love him , I do love him , he still tried to reason with her ; but then when he saw her hitching up the satin and running across the lawn , throwing off the veil , scattering the astonished wedding guests as she ran , and when he saw her jumping into a truck , not caring that she was getting petrol stains all over her broderie anglaise , jumping into a truck and not with the man they all expected her to love , but with the one she really loves , and then driving off with him in a cheap pickup truck to a motel in Wisconsin , shouting out , Goodbye Father , Goodbye Father ! as she goes ; well when he saw her doing that then Boy could not bring himself to disapprove . |
| 29 | Afterwards he took her to pick up the ring . |
| 30 | ‘ I might tell you I persuaded her to cut down the list Buckmaster had drawn up of people to be informed . |