Example sentences of "[adv] she [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't know how long she knelt on the cold floor with her mother still and silent in her arms . |
| 2 | So she tapped on the window . |
| 3 | So she lay on the floor and looked through the open door , into a beautiful garden with green trees and bright flowers . |
| 4 | So she lay on the floor in the shape of a cross , and prayed . |
| 5 | Jessie was already in bed but not asleep , and so she sat on the side of the bed and , her voice just a whisper , she said , ‘ Listen . ’ |
| 6 | Thus she stayed on the back-benches , retained her roots in Merseyside , and fought for the people and ideals which she had always supported . |
| 7 | She went steadily on , from foothold to foothold , only stopping to peel off her glove now and then and push a finger into the wet fringed mouth of a sea-anemone , but mostly she concentrated on the next step , the next handhold , with the sea on one side of her , the swell of grassy land the other . |
| 8 | Wearily she put on the kettle for the tea . |
| 9 | Quickly she pulled on the breeches . |
| 10 | A few minutes later she appeared on the swimming-pool bridge , chatting coquettishly to a tall blond man . |
| 11 | Ten minutes later she appeared on the distant seashore . |
| 12 | You must see how appallingly she behaves on the stage . |
| 13 | Now she swayed on the towering waves to the north , and glittering on her prow were the slim copper tubes that had faced the ship of the Order that had brought them all from Rhodes to Cyprus . |
| 14 | Yes , well she goes on the second of July , she has a day at school . |
| 15 | Tentatively she tapped on the door . |
| 16 | ‘ Maybe she had on the apron because she was cooking , Carlie . ’ |
| 17 | Sometimes she sat on the end of his divan if she could n't sleep and tried to wake him up to talk , but he slept with the heaviness of the very thin , and her weight on the divan made it sag and creak in a way that embarrassed her . |
| 18 | I said ju , I said to him then she came on the phone I was o ages on the phone and she said er I said you just take it as if it 's a day off and |
| 19 | And then she said on the , she said I looked at houses like this she said |
| 20 | Alexandra thought of calling her back , explaining that Mrs Chamberlin might regret her kind invitation to dine with them on Christmas Day if Alexandra were to upstage the Rectory family in such a way , but then she reflected on the goodness of Mrs Chamberlin 's heart and the necessity of living up to at least some of Lyddy 's expectations of her . |
| 21 | Then she flopped on the sofa to sort through the letters . |
| 22 | Cocooned in an ivory tower of antique furniture and unfinished jigsaw puzzles , she spends an inordinate amount of time doing simple things like pouring hot water into a teapot ; then she gets on the telephone to her friends and either hangs up just as they reach the receiver or asks them if they would n't mind coming round to tea and picking up some skate from the fishmonger on the way . |
| 23 | Then she landed on the Market Square flagstones with a sickening crash to lie motionless . |
| 24 | Then she sits on the floor at Suzie 's feet . |
| 25 | Then she sat on the bed , trying not to wince as Louise rubbed cream into her thighs and pounded at them enthusiastically . |
| 26 | Then she sat on the bed next to Sarah . |
| 27 | And she teased her out and straightened her up a little , and then she went over to the makeup table and tore off a length of the soft toilet roll that she used instead of Kleenex , and then she sat on the floor beside Lucy and put her arm around her shoulders . |
| 28 | Then she sat on the parapet atop the wide stairway and waited . |
| 29 | Signe brought me coffee in a pot with a felt cover that had eyes and a nose , then she sat on the edge of my bed holding a silly conversation with the felt cover while I drank my coffee . |
| 30 | Then she faltered on the threshold . |