Example sentences of "[vb past] she [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we approached she took to the steep places where we could not follow , and so we left her . ’ |
| 2 | In the Australian bush in the early 1930s , my mother-to-be was the daughter of a locomotive driver who watched her like a hawk and forbade her to go to the crasser ends of town . |
| 3 | Ludens told her to go to the British Museum and the National Gallery , which she did , though declining his offer to ‘ show her round ’ . |
| 4 | Sara looked sulky and left them to it , and they heard her calling to the old lady with rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 5 | Her parents and sisters were sympathetic but expected her to conform to the existing status quo . |
| 6 | Her firm stance enabled her to speak to the Russian government with greater authority also . |
| 7 | Royal watchers said it was significant that Diana had not mentioned Morton by name , nor had she referred to the main allegations in his book . |
| 8 | His fingers encircled the top of her spine and his muscular forearm held her clamped to the upper half of his body as he plundered her mouth . |