Example sentences of "[subord] she [verb] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tipped up her chin so she had to look him in the eyes but she pulled her face away . |
| 2 | Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground . |
| 3 | Perhaps only barely by then , until she managed to get something behind her , the reserve , the " something put by for a rainy day " which neither she nor anyone else in her hand-to-mouth world could ever quite hold together . |
| 4 | I looked towards the chateau entrance and saw Queen Poison , dreadful as an army in battle array , sweep towards me across the lowered drawbridge , arms extended as if she wished to clasp me to her deceitful bosom . |
| 5 | But if she had to liken him to anything it would be an overgrown teddy bear in determined pursuit of his honey . |
| 6 | Fabia was still wondering if she needed to add anything to that when , as a complete switch , and taking her totally off guard , Ven threw the abrupt question , ‘ Are you married ? ’ |
| 7 | SUPERMODEL Naomi Campbell turns 23 today — and if she wants to spend it with her U2 fiance Adam Clayton she will have to fly to Europe . |
| 8 | Could you please explain to her what these are/mean and let me know if she wants to change them from this : needs to be finalized by lunchtime tomorrow . |
| 9 | If she wants to end it after your trivial flingette , that 's her right . |
| 10 | He agreed to pay them but told Gina she must give some Italian lessons or something in future if she wanted to treat herself to things like that . |
| 11 | If she wishes to attach herself to the scare , I am delighted . |
| 12 | ‘ She was always very quiet and withdrawn , ’ was all Aunt Lilian would say , when pressed , and perhaps her interest really was in the young man 's academic future , not in her own , or mine , because she continued to coach him by post until two days before my birth . |
| 13 | ‘ Kirsty MacColl bollocked me about that gay thing , right , because she had to defend herself to the people she knew saying , ‘ Look , Shaun ai n't like that . ’ |
| 14 | It was particularly annoying because she wanted to tell him about Henry 's suggestion . |
| 15 | She sent Gwenellen to sit with him , because she wanted to tell me about a telephone call from General Francis . |
| 16 | There was also speculation that the delay was caused by Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley because she wanted to launch it after returning from a trip abroad . |
| 17 | ‘ Because of its potential value in the future , probably , or even more likely because she wanted to deprive me of something I valued as revenge for what she saw as my dumping her — who knows ? ’ |
| 18 | Mrs Palmer-Radford 's other son , Oliver , aged six , only discovered what had happened after she failed to collect him from his Catholic prep-school , it emerged yesterday . |
| 19 | Teri has given up going to New Year 's Eve parties after she had to lock herself in the kitchen with loads of middle aged ladies hammering on the door . |
| 20 | Her arms ached , but it gave her time to turn over in her head the encounter which had marked the day , and decide whether she wanted to share it with Marlin or not . |
| 21 | Rosie had bitten him twice in the past ; once when she managed to free herself by chewing through her tethering-rope , and once when she leaped through the window of Buddie 's jeep and chased him into the pig-yard . |
| 22 | I was hoping that Jane would type my application , but when she came to visit me in Cambridge , she had her arm in plaster , having broken it . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
| 24 | His second victim was drugged and raped when she went to see him for advice about work three months later . |
| 25 | Remember what she said on that video film when when he when she wanted to do it for too holidays . |
| 26 | She would be putty in my paws when she awoke to see me with my superb physique and elemental masculinity , not to mention my irresistible voice . |
| 27 | When she tried to shrug herself from his hold , he said , ‘ Do n't do that ! |
| 28 | And when she tried to interest him in niente acqua , he laughed as he limped round his shelves serving several customers at once and , shrugging his high shoulders , said , ‘ Non c'è pioggia , non c'è acqua . ’ |
| 29 | And though she longed to lose herself in the flames , to be consumed and reborn , she was also terribly afraid . |
| 30 | Half a dozen cutting remarks trembled on the tip of her tongue , but though she longed to hurl them at him , and watch him shrivel , she knew she could n't . |