Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tilda appeared with a ball of oozing clay in her arms which she flung down on the table . |
| 2 | Viola was beaming benevolently as she read on into the last column . |
| 3 | She read on to the story of holidays at Blackpool and Filey , a trip to London , and the gradually expanding horizons which writing brought to Walter . |
| 4 | As fast as her rheumatic legs would carry her , she toddled round to the Rope Walk , to the house where Eb and Josh and Ruth had been born and brought up . |
| 5 | As she taxied in to the small civilian terminal , Adam watched the three fighter planes ease their pointed noses skyward and climb at over thirty thousand feet a minute . |
| 6 | She slouched back to the living room . |
| 7 | The ones which could not be changed , or were too important to be missed , she shared out with the others and put a schedule on their desks . |
| 8 | At the end of the ceremony she tottered off to the bus , looking as if she had every intention of popping in to the local when she got home and livening everyone up with a steady dropping of ‘ To think our ‘ Ilda should go before me ’ remarks . |
| 9 | She squelched along in the muddy ruts left by the cattle , avoiding other more unpleasant tokens of their passage . |
| 10 | She made up for the difficulty by striking their fingers with a ruler when they erred , especially when learning the piano . |
| 11 | With a winning smile at a rather bemused young man , she dragged him up to dance , and every time she saw Feargal she made off in the opposite direction . |
| 12 | A sense of self-preservation cautioned her not to stick around , and before he could react she sprinted up to the house , feeling strangely exhilarated for the first time since she had left England . |
| 13 | Stella kept them waiting a long time , and when she did appear she sprinted off down the street ahead of them . |
| 14 | The prosecution allege these scratches had been inflicted just an hour earlier by Mrs Chandler as she fought back during the brutal sex attack . |
| 15 | In no mood now to finish her work , she stalked along to the kitchen . |
| 16 | She stalked off across the road , her hat jammed firmly on her head and her mouth set in a mutinous line . |
| 17 | And she stalked off to the foyer . |
| 18 | She stalked off into the house . |
| 19 | She stalked out of the factory , intending to walk through the grounds to cool off , and it was n't until she was passing the administration block that she realised it was raining . |
| 20 | She flung the fork down , looking daggers at him , and continued : ‘ The house she lived in during the war received a direct hit , and for two days she was buried alive nursing a glass vase belonging to her mother . |
| 21 | Nadine 's voice was calmer now , subdued and contemplative as she gazed up at the ceiling . |
| 22 | She gazed up at the ceiling with its painted blue flowers and wondered what Arnie was doing in Bradford . |
| 23 | Gently rocked by the smooth , rhythmic action of the calm sea , she gazed up at the sky above . |
| 24 | She gazed around at the paintings which hung on the walls , looking but not really seeing . |
| 25 | But , as she gazed around at the chintz sofas , and the French-provincial-style velvet-upholstered dining-room chairs — which she could see through a far open doorway — it occurred to Laura that maybe it was the only way to preserve such sumptuous furnishings on a shoreline likely to be damp and salty in the latter part of the year , while , outside the large windows , she could see automatic sprinklers drenching the fine green lawns that ran down to the beach . |
| 26 | She gazed out of the window , rehearsing conversational gambits . |
| 27 | Kicking off her sandals , she curled her legs up beside her , running slim fingers absently along the silky golden skin of her shins , her grey eyes unfocused as she gazed out of the window . |
| 28 | She gazed out of the window aware now of how close they were to the centre of the city and Rune 's apartment . |
| 29 | She gazed out of the passenger window with unseeing eyes , hardly aware of the changing scenery as it flashed by , letting the music wash over her , concentrating on the familiar piece , losing herself in its beauty . |
| 30 | Lindsey found her hands gripping the deck rail as she gazed out at the golden track made by the fading sun on the water . |