Example sentences of "[conj] she [verb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reminiscing had begun and , although she paused briefly to hand round the plates and a bowl of crisp salad to go with the pie , there was no way Harry could stop her . |
| 2 | Maria objected strongly but Noreen had said it would only be for a little while until she went back to school in New York , now that Noreen had money enough to get them their own place . |
| 3 | But Madeleine wo n't let me wake her up , she insists on waiting until she goes back to bed of her own accord . |
| 4 | Then a fiercer gust of wind almost blew her from the path and she hung on to bag and box like grim death . |
| 5 | to get up to the thirty five mile an hour you got ta go through all the five gears so you 're forever pa going like that erm and that made it worse so that last fortnight she has n't been on the bike and that last weekend when she went out she went because we was busy , she got her bike out and she went up to work one or two of her mates and then come home she said she 'd wished she had n't of gone up |
| 6 | Home and school had worn her success like a prize rosette , and she trotted off to university with a stack of leather-bound prizes and dire warnings about hard work , early nights and regular meals . |
| 7 | Afraid she might doze off if she gave in to temptation and lay down on the bed , she sat down instead on the room 's only chair , and picked up a book , absorbing not a single word as she waited for the sounds that would mean he was turning in for the night . |
| 8 | The child was an expense , of course , but she seemed up to date with her garments , her school trips . |
| 9 | The Appeal Court has freed Heidi Colwell , the mother who jailed for leaving her young child alone at home while she went out to work . |
| 10 | Lisa was up early next morning and on the phone to Emily , anxious to speak to her daughter before she went off to school . |
| 11 | She wore a nylon jacket to make the breakfast lest her clothes gets spattered before she went out to work . |
| 12 | Before she went back to bed , she said to me , ‘ Helen , have you ever heard a whistle in the middle of the night ? ’ |
| 13 | Later , when she blurted out to Victorine what she had seen , when she tried to describe it , she struggled with inadequate words . |
| 14 | She never knew how long she slept , but when she drifted back to consciousness she was aware even before opening her eyes that she was no longer alone in the room , and her body stiffened . |
| 15 | She sensed he was pretending to be asleep when she got in to bed . |
| 16 | ‘ Balladic archetypes ’ sprang to her mind a good phrase , she 'd try to work it in somewhere when she got back to university . |
| 17 | The woman returner can feel inadequate when she goes back to work , forgetting that she 's spent several years managing and developing human resources at home . |
| 18 | His mother would find him still at it when she came down to breakfast in the morning . |
| 19 | It could n't be left there for the old lady to find when she came down to breakfast . |
| 20 | He was already gone when she came down to breakfast , which did n't surprise her at all . |
| 21 | Hubert would kiss her on the cheek in the morning and when she went up to bed . |
| 22 | When she went home to tea with them she ate delicious food . |
| 23 | When she went down to breakfast there was the background noise of caterers clearing away the vestiges of the ball . |
| 24 | The lady has , so far as I know , done no harm in the Lords — no one having seen her except on one occasion when she went there to lunch — and she has yet to make her maiden speech . |
| 25 | ‘ We would n't want them to think that a girl from St Mary 's would eat all before her when she went out to tea , ’ said Sister Jerome . |
| 26 | Ianthe was disconcerted , even a little shocked , to see the bottles of milk still standing outside the door of her uncle 's Mayfair rectory when she arrived there to luncheon on Quinquagesima Sunday . |
| 27 | She would see it when she climbed up to bed that night . |
| 28 | Travis 's sweat-soaked body lay heavily on hers as she drifted back to earth . |
| 29 | She clutched at the companionway ladder , fighting nausea as she clung desperately to consciousness . |
| 30 | He woke up only when his mother slammed the front door as she went out to church . |