Example sentences of "she [vb past] do " in BNC.

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1 Just happened to forget to mention how she failed to do the job she was hired for , and got her comeuppance , good and proper , from the great wonder-rabbi Shmuel ben Issachar ! ’
2 She made do with Kleenex and blotted the black mascara off her face .
3 Instead she made do with a holiday in Cornwall with the kids .
4 Not surprisingly , her family and friends reacted with horror when she told them what she planned to do .
5 Or what she planned to do about it when she found out .
6 She agreed to do this before the next session so that it could be discussed further and then used later in the conjoint session with her parents .
7 She agreed to do what she could to help .
8 She probably managed to make him pay her a little more before she agreed to do what he wanted — and altogether earned for herself in one evening more than she does in several days of being a parlourmaid .
9 ‘ She was frightened then , and so , in the end , she agreed to do what I wanted , and leave La Tour Monchauzet forever . ’
10 But well Evelyn was asking me about reading and writing but first of all she asked did we still go to you see and I said no I sa we s I said we decided it did n't suit him .
11 So she helped Did she help with the childbirth as well ?
12 She would still have a spare bedroom , quite enough for the modest entertaining she proposed to do in her widowed state .
13 Sometimes she tried to do her hair like some of them in the photographs .
14 It was a high one , but although she was confident she could climb it , she knew that if she tried to do so she would risk being seen from the house ; but beside it was a shallow grassy ditch were she could remain out of sight , so bending double she ran along this ditch , and came to the spot where she had seen Tristram .
15 ‘ For a time she tried to do exactly that .
16 Julia tried to obey , as she tried to do everything he demanded of her over the next few days and as she tried to keep her misery and pain and fear from all of them .
17 Hardly aware of what she was doing , she tried to do the same , thankful that her shoes had soft soles .
18 She knew he saw what she tried to do , and her embarrassment increased .
19 She tried to do the accent , but she could not even get the ‘ daddy ’ right .
20 Yeah , well before sh he was born , she stopped doing them and er she phoned up out of the blue and so said to her , no they live at Bognor I think or something .
21 But that time has not yet come and Orlan found that most of the surgeons she approached did not want to get involved with her ideas .
22 True , she 'd done it .
23 In the old days he would have been amused and asked her how she 'd done it .
24 He also told her about what she 'd done to his balls .
25 He did n't blame her for what she 'd done half as much as she blamed herself .
26 She 'd done some TV before , but she 'd just left school , and had little knowledge of the working world and MEN .
27 She 'd done it for him .
28 And then Madame stood there in her dress and took the applause and cheers just like she 'd done ‘ Casta Diva ’ or something .
29 Now she 'd done some training as a secretary — she 'd been to secretarial college .
30 Whatever the way of it , Tina was a month ahead of Jean and had Stu with little trouble in her own bedroom instead of going into the hospital at Gore as she 'd done with Sandy .
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