Example sentences of "sighed and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Muttering about the appalling decline in standards since she was last in Lisbon , Maria Candida knelt to help Sara off with her shoes , and while she did so , Sara sighed and lay back on the feather bed . |
| 2 | Ronni sighed and lay back on the hyacinth-coloured bedspread . |
| 3 | Walter sighed and lay back in the chair . |
| 4 | Glancing at the clock , she sighed and lay back against the pillows , an arm flung across her eyes . |
| 5 | He looked at me for a moment then sighed and got up from the chair . |
| 6 | He sighed and looked out of the window . |
| 7 | Then she sighed and squeezed in by the side of the chest of drawers to look out of the window , scratching away with her finger nail at the film of grease on the pane . |
| 8 | He sighed and leaned back against the wall again . |
| 9 | Shiona sighed and leaned back against the pillows . |
| 10 | He sighed and set off up the stairs again , pulling himself up by his hands on the thick , frozen rope fixed to the outside of the staircase , the castle 's concession to their earlier request for a handhold on the often ice-slicked steps . |
| 11 | I sighed and sat down on the stairs . |
| 12 | She sighed and sat down in the window seat . |