Example sentences of "[vb past] 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 ‘ 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 .
5 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 .
6 They heard her go down the passage , then the disagreement about telephoning the police was renewed .
7 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 .
8 It was these that made her carry on the conversation .
9 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 . ’
10 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 .
11 As she went she picked up the expensive bottle of wine .
12 This almost welcoming message kept her going down the raccordo to Siena .
13 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 .
14 Afterwards he took her to pick up the ring .
15 ‘ I might tell you I persuaded her to cut down the list Buckmaster had drawn up of people to be informed .
16 Although the Empress submitted momentarily , divisions within the nobility enabled her to tear up the councillors ' terms .
17 Did she put on the magic dress , the dress made of pain and courage and become herself transformed , into a human woman , lovely and gentle , whom some other wicked creature had once enchanted too ?
18 Her colleagues said she came down the last few hundred feet singing Flower of Scotland with her instructor .
19 Jenny , of Willenhall , West Midlands , said she dreamed up the dish after she visited her boyfriend in hospital and found a strange girl at his bedside .
20 Miss Sherwin said she found out the stall had been sold for below the price she thought it was worth and felt ‘ ripped off ’ .
21 Radio ham Chris Thorndyke , 45 , from Bury St Edmonds , Suffolk , said she picked up the report .
22 But no sooner had she switched on the electric kettle than the phone began to ring .
23 Had she added up the facts wrongly , found him guilty more because it was what she had feared than that it was the truth ?
24 When it steadied she pulled out the bath plug and knelt to hold her protesting head under the running water from the tap .
25 They only wanted her to clean out the drain with a stick . ’
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