Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Distress caused her eyes to brim with tears , and , furious with her own weakness , she turned and went to the inner office window , where she stared through a blur at the tree-sheltered chalets . |
| 2 | She then rebuilt the old hospital in Santa Cruz and opened a pharmacy there , where she looked after the sick of that area . |
| 3 | I 've got a list of phone numbers , it seems like fifty , of different people who have been invoked — the doctor , the home help , district nurse , chiropodist , social worker , hospital doctor , Age Concern , the Red Cross , the old people 's home where she went for a break and dozens more , I hardly know who they are . |
| 4 | She managed to escape and ran to a lorry parked nearby where she banged on the door to attract the driver 's attention . |
| 5 | He found her where she clung to a rope that was curled up in a corner of the iron ship and picked her up and carried her through a secret tunnel down through the floor of the ship , down through the underwater creatures , deep into the earth beneath the swirling sea . |
| 6 | She was able to keep Steve because where she lived within the er there was a little coronet of little tatty houses that have since been pulled down and she was related to fifteen in fifteen out of the twenty two houses she had a relative . |
| 7 | Mother had been taken ill suddenly and at once removed to hospital , where she died within a few days . |
| 8 | Faye had been taken to Labour and Delivery , where she waited in a private room for Dr Greene 's arrival . |
| 9 | Some Christian girls took her to live with them in a tiny flat where she slept on a sofa in the cramped living room . |
| 10 | Wendy Ramshaw 's retrospective exhibition at the South Bank Centre in London from 3 September to 7 October charts her career from the Newcastle College of Art and Design , where she studied in the Fifties , to her present eminence as the leading modernist woman artist-jeweller in Britain . |
| 11 | The second daughter , Katarina ( Tinka ) , also graduated from the College , where she taught for a time . |
| 12 | Katherine Jones ( Dr Pelly ) after completing her D.Phil in 1987 worked for about three years at Phillips and Drew , stockbrokers , where she specialised in the financial analysis of publishing companies . |
| 13 | As Lady Lewisham and later after 1962 as the Countess of Dartmouth , she was a controversial figure in London politics where she served as a London County Councillor . |
| 14 | Publication paved the way for an exciting tour of lectures , in the UK , New Zealand and her native Australia , culminating in the award at Sydney University — where she graduated with a double first in mathematics and physics in 1939 . |
| 15 | As the light faded she left the office and returned to her room , where she changed into a more attractive dress and attended to her make-up . |
| 16 | Howell ( this volume ) takes up some of these issues in her paper where she argues against the interpretation of ritual as catharsis among the Chewong . |
| 17 | Hearing what sounded like a muttered exclamation of fury at her elbow , Melissa looked around and saw Dora turn on her heel and march off into the orchard , where she stopped under an apple tree and stared up into the branches as if inspecting its heavy crop of fruit . |
| 18 | She seemed to vanish as quickly as she had appeared , leaving Ianthe to be pushed forward into the train , where she stood in a daze until she found herself sitting down in a seat offered to her by a small boy . |
| 19 | Dorothy , the eldest , went to the maternal grandparents , where she stayed for a number of years . |
| 20 | Her ‘ Spencer Special , ’ where she dived into the pool leaving barely a ripple , always attracted an audience . |
| 21 | It was then that she read Angela Kunze 's manifesto , written in blue on a long ribbon of paper above her head where she rests against the wall : ‘ I am fasting to cleanse myself of fear and hopelessness , hate and violence , impatience and the lust for novelty . |
| 22 | But , pushing him aside , she gathered her cloak around her , made so bravely from those two old plush tablecloths , and began to walk downhill — the direction she happened to be facing — until she came to St Jude 's churchyard where she sat on a gravestone , her head in her hands , and shivered . |
| 23 | Instead , she wandered into town , where she bought a bag of chips , well soused in vinegar and wrapped in newspaper ; she took the bag to her room , where she sat on the edge of the single bed , slowly eating chips in the dark and thinking . |
| 24 | I grinned then , I recall , and brought the stunter down fast and acute across the weeds and the water , the sand and the surf , scudding it in across the wind to jerk and zoom just before it hit the girl herself where she sat on the dune top holding and spasmodically jerking the string she held in her hand , connected to the sky . |
| 25 | With a brief wave Lindsey hurried along the corridor towards the consulting-room , where she sat at the desk , taking several deep breaths to compose herself before calling for her first patient . |
| 26 | On impulse , she bought a recently published history of the region under the Occupation and took it to a pavement café , where she sat under a gaudy sunshade , idly sipping coffee and glancing through her book , but finding the passing show around her far more diverting . |
| 27 | He was holding her there without duress , pinning her where she sat by the sheer magnetism of his physical presence . |
| 28 | Her face has been seen on millions of TV screens in the chocolate advert , where she lies in a bath calmly eating a Flake . |
| 29 | The insolvency department has moved to Southampton based Lyon Pilcher , the Salisbury office is closing down with the loss of four jobs , and Gaynor Harris is back where she started with the Southampton practice ( to be known as Hook Harris ) which she has bought from the old partnership with Charles Bullworthy , with money borrowed from family and friends . |
| 30 | Paul , her husband , generally left before seven and had lunch out with one of his friends , while she used her free day to take care of a thousand chores more annoying than the duties of her job : she had to go to the post office and fret for half an hour in a queue , go shopping in the supermarket , where she quarrelled with the saleswoman and wasted time waiting at the check-out , telephone the plumber and plead with him to be precisely on time so that she would n't have to wait the whole day for him . |