Example sentences of "she [vb past] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | So he made sure she failed on all counts . |
| 2 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 3 | She succeeded on both scores . |
| 4 | There is a local story that Queen Elizabeth spent a night here ; what is certain is that she passed on this road on her way from Burderop to Cirencester . |
| 5 | She concentrated on this problem so that she did not have to imagine the people themselves . |
| 6 | She knew she did not have the strength to throw her voice through the stillness so she knelt on one knee . |
| 7 | Her faith in him was severely tested later , especially in 1908 and again in 1913 ; but she drew on deep reservoirs of resilience until the anxieties of his last year as a soldier began to sap her energies as housekeeper , mother , and gardener . |
| 8 | She drew on sensible boots and a warm woollen cape and called for the carriage to be brought round to the front . |
| 9 | So she scored on that line . |
| 10 | She was then based at Portland from where she sailed on four month training cruises . |
| 11 | She tried the back door and found it open , and going in she turned on some lights and made herself a cup of coffee . |
| 12 | Lance Percival was there to hear Ken look at Miss Sims as she arrived on that boundary between the action and the production . |
| 13 | As soon as she arrived on Australian soil she went straight to the hospital . |
| 14 | But for some reason she forgot on this occasion and I did not stop to remind her . |
| 15 | Hi Jinks had an awesome range of martial skills which she practiced on small children . |
| 16 | But until 1974 , when she began using it , she relied on unstretched canvas and wood . |
| 17 | Then she began on another tack . |
| 18 | Her doctor had told her that there was nothing he could do for this problem , so she decided on private treatment from a doctor that a friend recommended . |
| 19 | She decided on false naïveté as a cover for her suspicions about Zbigniew Nowak . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , then your outraged mother leapt into the car which was loaded with our luggage because we intended to be off to Urbino that morning , and apparently she decided on some kind of hara-kiri or felo de se , a consummation of our marriage devoutly to be wished but never performed . |
| 21 | Her limbs were unsteady as she padded on bare feet , staggering a little , towards the door , oblivious to the fact that she was dressed only in a thin nightgown , that her half-combed hair flared untidily about her shoulders . |
| 22 | She worked on automatic pilot , hands carrying out the necessary movements , her brain active elsewhere . |
| 23 | She pulled on high boots , home-made poncho-style Russian blouse and long skirt and put up her gleaming chestnut hair in a chignon with a fashionable fringe . |
| 24 | ‘ You say that every time , ’ said Ilsa , winking at me as she pulled on white gloves : I 'll see you tomorrow and tell you everything ! ’ |
| 25 | She breakfasted on fried bread and bacon , and tea with four spoons of sugar , before a full turkey dinner with the other 33 residents at her nursing home in Redcar , Cleveland . |
| 26 | Maurice suggested that an attempt had already been made , after Eliot 's separation from her , to have her committed but that Vivien , having been warned about , or suspecting , such a move , went to Paris — certainly she recorded on 19 June 1935 some plan to have her " arrested " but nothing happened ; then , six days later , she is writing from Paris to a friend , Louise Purdon . |
| 27 | She brooded on this flower with a desiccating look . |
| 28 | Eventually she settled on one property at the junction of the Lambeth and Kennington roads , where she built ‘ model dwellings for working folk ’ and maintained an office , home , and headquarters until her death thirty years later , never marrying but working constantly with her sisters Ellen and Eliza on local improvement schemes . |
| 29 | But although she became pregnant several times , she miscarried on each occasion . |
| 30 | The badge she wore on one lapel proclaimed that her name was Molly . |