Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constance said nothing but walked back into the kitchen , where she lifted the lid off the soup and stood staring at it . |
| 2 | The sign on his door said Engaged , and she smiled as she crept up to the next landing , where she knew the keyhole window that overlooked his study . |
| 3 | She got wearily out of the car and tramped across the car park to the reception lobby , where she asked the receptionist with peroxided hair if she could phone the AA . |
| 4 | A recent account of the nature of housework is to be found in Ann Oakley 's ( 1974 ) The Sociology of Housework , where she describes the character of this work as any industrial sociologist would describe paid work . |
| 5 | The design works best in performance , where she favours the creation of something akin to the surround-sound sometimes set up in cinemas . |
| 6 | He followed her into the sitting-room , where she cut the sound on the television but left the picture . |
| 7 | This was the first of the eight birdies Davies gathered , the best of all being her three at the 315-yard 13th hole , where she drove the green . |
| 8 | The monologue came to an end when she reached the office , where she slammed the door , then leaned against it while trying to clear the anger from her mind . |
| 9 | She comfortably made her semi-final , where she met the Canadian , Nathalie Gosselin . |
| 10 | She was also active in the London Ethical Society , where she met the philosopher Bernard Bosanquet [ q.v. ] ( died 1923 ) , whom she married in 1895 . |
| 11 | She spent much of her time in Swahili-land , where she met the poet and scholar Muhammad Kijumwa al-Bakry , who provided her with manuscripts and information about the language and literature of the Swahili-speaking people . |
| 12 | In 1986 she joined the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) , first as programme manager of the electronics sciences division of the Defense Sciences Office and , later as deputy director of the office , where she negotiated the agreement with Gazelle ( see left ) . |
| 13 | She left elementary school at fourteen to take a job filling seed packets for five shillings a week ; later she worked for a draper and subsequently for the Co-op , where she joined the union movement of which she was to be a lifelong member . |
| 14 | She works in AIB Bank , Cavan , where she joined the Bank on 26th June 1978 . |
| 15 | Thereafter we witness Rose being guided by the Fool towards Pagoda-land , where she finds the salamander , then back to the court where her kindness to both the salamander and her persecuted old father is rewarded by the transformation of the Prince to his real shape and his victory over all contenders to win Rose , rescue her father and banish Epine . |
| 16 | She moved past him to the kitchen , where she put the kettle on the gas . |
| 17 | Hard fingers were gripping her hand where she held the Campari , levering the bottle upright . |
| 18 | In 1905 she was appointed a member of the royal commission on the poor laws , where she defended the role of organized private charity against the bureaucratic socialism of Mrs Beatrice Webb [ q.v. ] ; she is believed to have drafted many sections of the majority report . |
| 19 | In 1953 he unveiled her at the Cannes film festival where she stole the limelight to such an extent that established stars could only get their pictures taken by posing with her . |
| 20 | Her own little flat was not yet ready and Sara had not really determined where she wanted the bureau . |
| 21 | Yeah , but where she bought the house then ? |
| 22 | She is a ‘ low ability ’ child in the second year who attended St Mary 's School where she remembered the Head playing a guitar . |
| 23 | So she asked Curtis and Mrs Files — who had been watching Delia Sutherland 's reaction from the service door — to come with her into the morning room where she explained the situation as frankly as possible . |
| 24 | She had trained under Kate Rorke at the Guildhall , where she won the silver medal for elocution . |
| 25 | She had trained under Kate Rorke at the Guildhall , where she won the silver medal for elocution . |
| 26 | The ‘ meaning ’ theist is capable of recognising that he or she considers the problem in a mutual dialogue with the ‘ meaning ’ atheist , that each is out to convince the other and that each may convert the other to his or her views . |
| 27 | The nice embalmer who wrote to me told me , greatly to his credit , of the totally unnecessary embalming that is frequently carried out , so that the first the next-of-kin knows about it is when he or she receives the bill . |
| 28 | My auntie writes a note or she phones the school . ’ |
| 29 | Or she gets the kitten and puts it on my face and the kitten sits there going get off me ! |
| 30 | The first point is that the user , if he or she uses the guide at all , probably finds the task of wading through a long , unindexed guide to find some specific piece of information somewhat tedious . |