Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she flung herself on to his stomach , squealing with delight , and he began to tickle her . |
| 2 | Jamie 's prophetic words floated back to her and she flung herself on to the bed , staring at nothing , her body rigid with the tension of a woman in the grip of violent , unsated desire . |
| 3 | Slowly she lowered herself on to a dead log and sat there . |
| 4 | Sobbing for breath , she lowered herself on to the ladder . |
| 5 | She lowered herself on to it , snug . |
| 6 | She had brought things to make their evening meal and she emptied them on to the work-counter : wine , cheese , spinach , onions , bread , the pink-white tines of a rack of lamb , as if all the promise of their future lay in the guarantee of such ordinariness being possible . |
| 7 | She pegged it on to his blue jersey with the tiny plastic clothes-pins she used for hanging up her dripping stockings in the bathroom to dry overnight . |
| 8 | She passed it on to about half her offspring . |
| 9 | Then she drew him on to the covers and pushed him gently back . |
| 10 | The wife does n't know it , so she passes it on to her husband . |
| 11 | The little boy , sensing that his mother was upset , had come to stand by her and she lifted him on to her lap . |
| 12 | She lifted herself on to hands and knees , edged to the centre of the girder , waited until her limbs had stopped shaking , and started to crawl . |
| 13 | The wooden seat , when she lifted herself on to it , was still warm . |
| 14 | She threw them on to the table and looked down at Doyle and Tug . |
| 15 | Then she threw herself on to the bed and stuck the pillow over her head , biting her teeth together , absolutely determined not to cry . |
| 16 | But the corridor remained silent , and with a sob of despair she threw herself on to the bed and cried till her store of tears was used up . |
| 17 | ‘ You cow , ’ cried Sam , without malice : only a few months ago she would have pressed the plum into her friend 's hair , but now she threw it on to the pavement where it lay easily among the cabbage stalks and traces of vomit . |
| 18 | And finally as she hauled herself on to the ice-slick rock where the sun pulsed fire into her eyes , she saw |
| 19 | She followed him on to the train for the short journey to Bruges . |
| 20 | She angled herself on to a stool . |
| 21 | Then she popped 'em on in Haddenham And did n't feel too bad in 'em : She felt in 'em , in Cheltenham , Just as right as rain . |
| 22 | Rapt , ecstatic , she willed me on to ever-greater feats of ardour . |
| 23 | When she weans them on to meat she usually feeds them from the kill before she herself eats . |
| 24 | They were not yet dry but she had no others apart from her best ones , so she pulled them on over the warm , dry woollen stockings into which she had changed upon coming in from the buildings . |
| 25 | She rolled him on to his shoulder and two cornflowers stared at her . |
| 26 | She rolled them on to her forearms . |
| 27 | She let him kiss her , his tongue on hers , and then she eased him on across the field , her arm curved closely round his waist . |
| 28 | She eased them on to her body , cutting out a part of the cold . |
| 29 | She put him on to researching the availability of marble vanity-unit tops and free-standing occasional tables . |
| 30 | After a shower she put it on with a frown , worried that it really was going to live up to her expectations , teamed up with seamed black tights and her new black slingback shoes . |