Example sentences of "she [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , and Isabel must know , must surely remember it , Isabel who had had such a well-developed , careful , private system for the storing , ordering , labelling , arrangement and organisation of things , whose books were in a certain line , so that she could tell you at once , and without ever having to get up , what sat next to what and where Lewis and Short or Cassell 's French-English would be found , were she to consent to your borrowing them because you had lost your own . |
| 2 | They 've had to come out of retirement , she to help in a hairdressers , he to work in a shop . |
| 3 | What was she to do with such a thing ? |
| 4 | And what had she to do with Undersea ? |
| 5 | What has she to do with this business , Master ? ’ |
| 6 | Viola said she was going to sell the house , because it was too big for her ( Hilary had just moved out ) , and she found the stairs difficult — so what was she to do with Walter 's manuscripts and stuff , which were legally Mam 's ? |
| 7 | She had n't wanted to have people at all , but there they were and what was she to do with them ? |
| 8 | In the following conversational fragment , we shall say , for example , that speaker A uses the expressions my uncle and he to refer to one individual and my mother 's sister and she to refer to another . |
| 9 | And even if there were , what had she to fear from some sturdy citizen ? |
| 10 | But how was she to get through the rest of the evening ? |
| 11 | They always were a mad lot , she told herself ; and what was she to say to Mr Paul ? |
| 12 | That 's why she to say to you that she 's on your side . |
| 13 | What , was she to strike from Benedict all his hopes at one blow ? |
| 14 | A few minutes earlier Ruth would have welcomed the idea of everyone going off to sleep ( not that Sean showed any sign of doing so ) as an opportunity for her to indulge in her own thoughts , but the fits of uninhibited laughter had restored her to something nearer to normality , and at last she was present with her companions in mind as well as in the flesh . |
| 15 | But he certainly was n't going to encourage her to indulge in nerves or old memories . |
| 16 | Although the radio monitoring system used by Siobhan Fahey allowed her to indulge in some frenzied dancing during the songs , it did her no favours in the vocal projection stakes . |
| 17 | When the mother complained of a headache she was given an overdose of anti-depressants and tranquillisers which caused her to lapse into unconsciousness . |
| 18 | At her first appearance in the rose pink blouse , her father 's eyebrows and icy glower had caused her to redden under his gaze but for once , her mother 's slight head-shake had caused Jonadab to bite his tongue and he had made no comment to Martha . |
| 19 | For example one woman set fire to her kitchen accidentally and the carer , her neighbour , realised that it would not be safe for her to remain at home ; another carer , a husband , found himself becoming so stressed that he struck his wife ; he then requested institutional care . |
| 20 | For example : I expect her to obey me when I make a reasonable request or command , so that , if ( say ) I ask her to remain at the table until she 's finished her meal , she does so without endless arguments or fits of temper . |
| 21 | Now that Hilary was three years old , Stephen had made it clear to his own mother that the necessity for her to remain at the Manor was past . |
| 22 | Eliza was now six months pregnant , and Lady Franklin extended a ‘ pressing invitation ’ to her to remain at Government House for the rest of her confinement . |
| 23 | The judge will decide whether to grant a ‘ residence order , ’ allowing her to remain at her new home . |
| 24 | By now her hiding-place had become far too dangerous for her to remain in it for much longer . |
| 25 | He pays her to remain in obscurity , fearing she may reveal the respectability of his origins . |
| 26 | She has a highly interesting job which allows her to remain in close contact with patient care . |
| 27 | To enable her to drive through the streets with him in an open carriage and be jointly greeted at receptions , he decided in 1914 that , on the anniversary of his marriage , he would inspect the army in Bosnia , of which the capital was Sarajevo . |
| 28 | He told her to drive to him immediately , and when she arrived treated her to a breakfast of kippers and Chablis . |
| 29 | It was this that had precipitated Charley 's act of violence towards Rose , whom he had grabbed as she parked her car , forcing her to drive to the van . |
| 30 | The court heard how in February 1977 he 'd jumped into Janie 's car while it was parked in West London and forced her to drive to the countryside at knife point . |