Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.

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1 She met him in the hallway , in an old blue dressing gown .
2 Somehow though — with Ven moving forward too , she realised it was n't so unexpected — she met him in the centre of the room .
3 She described how she walked around for months ‘ with a pain , almost a physical pain , in my heart ’ ; of how she avoided friends and pulled her hat over her face if she met them in the street ; of how , at last , she knew she must express her thousand emotions about her little grandchild in the way she knew best , in clay .
4 She seated herself in the bay window and said to George , ‘ Are you not supposed to be at Cambridge ?
5 She seated herself in the row in front of me , but before she did so she looked round , perhaps to see if after all there was anyone present whom she recognised .
6 On 11 February 1963 she gassed herself in the flat .
7 She 'd had no idea what the house looked like , until she was going through that wooden gate when , holding Millie by the hand , she espied it in the distance .
8 She got it in the back of the neck .
9 but she got it in the greens
10 She had to make sure that she avoided him in the future and never gave him the chance to pull any more stunts like that !
11 She stood five feet six tall in her high-heeled shoes , her long hair was dark , and she was the kind of thirty-five-year-old woman men turned to look at when she passed them in the street .
12 He was clad in a short towelling robe , and his hair was damp , and he was clearly on his way back from taking a shower when , on her way to carry out her own ablutions , she passed him in the sitting-room .
13 ‘ Crumbs , she bumped yer in the fog ? ’ said Ella .
14 She caught him in the hall as he put on his hat .
15 I laugh if she caught it in the
16 She has them in the bathroom with her , and she apologizes : ‘ I 've just put fifty pence in the meter to get water for our bath . ’
17 The customer always matters and is never a nuisance — even if she interrupts you in the middle of doing something else .
18 ‘ Mr Marsh , I wonder if I might accept your offer of help , ’ she said when she found him in the vestry .
19 She found him in the kitchen , a big L-shaped room , like the house , dominated by an Aga cooker at one end , and a round table set in the shorter alcove .
20 Back in the cottage she found everyone in the kitchen .
21 She found them in the Green Room .
22 She found herself in the public library .
23 Later , she found herself in the front passenger seat of a comfortable grey Rover , and as the car negotiated the twists and turns of the mountainous road she stole side-glances at Silas 's profile .
24 Almost without knowing how she got there , she found herself in the garden .
25 The South African , once ranked in the world 's top 300 , decided to enter when she found herself in the north west for a three-months summer stay with her boyfriend 's family in Bolton , but was never seriously tested as Benmnett fell to her second consecutive defeat in the final .
26 But I 'm sure that once she joins you in the pool she will find it easy enough to slip into the flow of things .
27 She poked him in the chest .
28 She poked him in the shoulder , her bright smile belying the force she had used .
29 She poked herself in the chest .
30 She noted everyone in the choir , indeed , as part of a determined effort not to gaze all the time at Giles Carnaby , who was in the back row , in the middle of the tenors , straight ahead of her , where she could consider him in detail — silvery hair , grey herring-bone tweed jacket , greenish shirt , paisley patterned silk tie ( so much for not gazing … )
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