Example sentences of "[noun] she have [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By Friday she had arranged everything to Rob 's satisfaction , although as she handed Luke his notes for the meeting in York she still had some reservations about his reaction to his brother 's methods of expressing gratitude . |
| 2 | Since I came from Scotland she had expected me to be ‘ large , raw-boned and ‘ dower ’ [ i.e. dour ] ' . |
| 3 | After all , he had not been the ogre she had expected him to be . |
| 4 | But I have given her up , and in any case she has meant nothing to me for years . ’ |
| 5 | She is probably the least grasping person I 've ever met , and ever since she 's had pocket money she 's given it to cancer research . |
| 6 | When they emerged forty minutes later from the second-hand shop she 'd taken him to , he wore a tweed suit , laced boots , a heavy overcoat almost ankle-length , gloves and a trilby hat . |
| 7 | For the past five years she has devoted herself to the United Nations Children 's Fund and became its ambassador in an effort to help the world 's sick and starving children . |
| 8 | Erm and then that person she 'd sold it to she knew their address . |
| 9 | Take tonight , for example — and just to turn the screw she had wound him to fever pitch before letting O'Shea in ! |
| 10 | This was the man she 'd given herself to , willingly , wholeheartedly , by some mysterious process of transmutation from acute dislike to ardent desire , in the wild heat of last night … dislike and distrust had dissolved in the drugging excitement of his arms . |
| 11 | For some perverse reason she had wanted him to be annoyed . |
| 12 | But , still the same , Fabia felt hot by the time she 'd made it to her room , so went and took a shower and changed her clothes and supposed , since it had to be lunchtime , that she should set about getting a snack of some sort . |
| 13 | And a mixture of emotions , too complex to analyse , were welling up inside Robyn , as he manoeuvred the long , sleek Jaguar into a convenient space outside the house she had directed him to . |
| 14 | Meanwhile Millie 's mistress , frustrated at being parted from the family she had devoted herself to rearing and longing for the freedom to travel and relax , stayed loyal to her husband 's ambitions . |
| 15 | Sally-Ann , unlike Rosemary , finds it a struggle and bitterly hurtful to dredge up her dreadful past — like Rosemary she has believed herself to be a doormat in society ; like Rosemary she has not known a childhood . |