Example sentences of "[vb past] to she [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost always she answered ‘ yes ’ because she had come to prefer lying still , with his soft sleeping body behind her , breathing the night air scented with pine wood and wild thyme as it came to her through the open shutters , and listening to the faraway ululation of the Borzoi dog chained beneath the walls of the Castello Crocetto . |
| 2 | Voices from the breakfast table came to her through the open window . |
| 3 | A picture came to her of the shaggy wanderers huddling together in the bus shelter at the top of the road where she had been born and bred . |
| 4 | She was not surprised when the girl turned to her with the dark remark , ‘ I wish he had n't come in just then . ’ |
| 5 | It was vaulted and filthy , black with the grime of decades , and its sooty defaced posters spoke to her of the petty romances of others , of Ramsgate and Margate , and she was going to Paris , albeit in a school raincoat , and with a beret on her head . |
| 6 | He spoke to her outside the social services and pleaded with her to come home . |
| 7 | A NURSE charged with murdering four children had shown no emotion when colleagues spoke to her about the mysterious string of collapses suffered by child patients on the ward where she worked , a court heard yesterday . |