Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A nurse may contact the health authority when she has decided to return to work .
2 All she has to do to get to work is walk out of her kitchen to her office just across the hall .
3 But it is as though she has had to start from square one .
4 The retailer needs to be able to plan how she uses her money , to work out how much profit she needs to make to stay in business — and to grow .
5 She 'd had to dash to HQ Communications , as the Colonel had insisted his coded message go out that evening .
6 She stuffed the postcard under her pillow and then smoothed the covers that she 'd refused to straighten before school .
7 It was a subconscious form of mourning for a foolish love she 'd allowed to spring to life in her heart , only to kill stone dead — except that her feelings for Dane were far from dead , she acknowledged ruefully .
8 Not long ago she had begun to talk of life not being worth living again and she had demanded that Harry should tell her , once and for all , why it was worth living .
9 She had begun to sweat with discomfort .
10 She had already met this young man , when he had last come to pay his rent , and found him startlingly different from the Welsh boys of her acquaintance — a big , silent boy with disillusioned , almond-shaped eyes sunk above high cheek bones , a boy who had stared unblinkingly at her until she had begun to blush with embarrassment , so that she had felt stripped , not only physically but mentally as well .
11 Because the queues at the sandwich bar had been so horrendous that she had decided to go without lunch and now she was feeling disconnected and light-headed .
12 Once she had decided to go into publishing , she set out conscientiously to fulfil her aim by getting three qualifications for the job : bookshop experience , a degree in English and secretarial skills .
13 Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors .
14 She had vowed to fight for Roman 's love , but how could she when he only wanted her for a stopgap while Dana was away ?
15 She had wanted to fall in love , she had willed it , and her body had produced the lover , close to her heart , fed by her own blood , watered by own needy greedy wanting .
16 She had wanted to go to bed with Freddie Nash more than anything else in her life .
17 In a very little , it would be the time when once she had used to sit with Mama
18 And as she thought of the good golfing years she had allowed to go to waste , so praying and practice loomed large in the recovery programme she set herself .
19 The number of times she had had to go to school with no knickers on was nobody 's business , she often told her husband .
20 Daalny had acted , after all ; she must have taken the second key during Vespers , from the nail where at noon she had watched the porter hang the first one , but she had had to wait for near-darkness before using it .
21 The passion she had tried to feel for feminism was not enough , it did not give her enough strength to stand up for herself against the demands of these two women who wanted her , needed her and demanded her .
22 She had tried to fly over experience , to slough off all that unpleasant part of her life as a snake sloughs off its old skin , but always misery reasserted itself .
23 It was just like last night again , when the mood had changed between them and she had left to go to bed , filled with regrets .
24 This she did , at which stage she had managed to go without drinking , but had not yet been to see her solicitor .
25 She gives you a tour of that painting in cheerful detail , noting with satisfaction that she had managed to achieve in part of the backdrop the right kind of ‘ girny ’ blue .
26 Ronnie had written to me a few months before , saying that she had hesitated to get in touch but wanted me to know how concerned she was about John .
27 Though , remembering that walk with him , she recalled how happy she had felt , and she wondered if that had been when she had started to fall in love with him .
28 He must be pretty bad if she 's got to stay at home . ’
29 Poor Mum , she 's had to go into hospital for an operation .
30 Paula , who was zipping one of the other models into a cocktail dress , felt her skin begin to prick with excitement .
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