Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wants me to go to the theatre though , I do n't think she 'll enjoy Chekhov very much . |
| 2 | Although neither very efficient nor popular with the other staff , Cabon made herself useful and soon had the run of the office and was able to look at all the files , amongst which she found one relating to the proposed voyage of the Rainbow Warrior into the nuclear test area . |
| 3 | It was a brief respite ; when , presently , she took a break and switched on the radio , she found herself listening to the voice of Detective Inspector Clarke who was being interviewed by a reporter . |
| 4 | When at last Luke released her , she found herself clinging to the kitchen cabinet like a shipwrecked mariner to a rock . |
| 5 | With unashamed interest , he studied her anxious , freshly scrubbed face , and she found herself responding to the arrival at last of his faint , elusive smile , her limpid eyes softening with warmth because she knew instinctively that he smiled rarely and that she was privileged . |
| 6 | Again she found herself responding to the fever of his passionate desire , and as her own need rose to meet it a small cry of yearning left her — a cry that was accompanied by a totally different cry that echoed from downstairs . |
| 7 | But she found herself talking to the empty room , and the sky outside the window was the untroubled blue of a peaceful July morning . |
| 8 | As he turned to close the door of the tower behind them , she let them fall to the ground again . |
| 9 | The way she wears it shows to the righteous and inquisitive observers always present in Asian communities just how modest she is . |
| 10 | She sees she sees to the cats and then she stays in the see you 've got ta keep him company |
| 11 | From her hut she heard him call to the Moi and her sons , and a moment later they all plunged naked into the river . |
| 12 | She heard it crash to the bottom of the stairs , and felt the floor quiver as it gained on her . |
| 13 | ‘ A bit , ’ she said , and she watched him walk to the end of the bed . |
| 14 | She watched him walk to the door and open it . |
| 15 | ‘ Aye , where else ? ’ she said as she , too , rose from the settle and returned to the couch , from where she watched him go to the box that was standing on the end of the sideboard , and from it take a piece of silver , then button his coat across his broad chest , take his cap from his pocket and , having put it on at an angle , salute her , saying , ‘ Your servant , madam . ’ |
| 16 | She watched him cross to the pile and rummage around . |
| 17 | Poor Prince was seriously hurt , and as she watched he fell to the ground . |
| 18 | Certainly , in her classroom , sex was the topic on which she knew their vocabulary to be widest , in spite of the fact that it did n't receive the level of attention she insisted they devote to the subjects on the curriculum . |
| 19 | She saw him go to the bar and order a tray of Cokes and crisps for the children , and by the time he came back to her table carrying two mugs of coffee she had composed herself a little . |
| 20 | She felt herself moving to the side with the others , as the lights were lowered , and a stool placed in the centre of the dance-floor . |
| 21 | She said we went to the Isle of Wight . |
| 22 | She forced herself to listen to the service , the man 's responses firm and gruff , the girl 's scarcely audible . |
| 23 | She forced herself to go to the cinema knowing that otherwise she would grow increasingly depressed at home . |
| 24 | She does not pretend that Ben 's ordeal resulted directly from the ban , but she believes it contributed to the chain of events which led inexorably to his present stay in south-east London 's Bethlem Hospital . |
| 25 | Panic at the thought of Roman 's meeting Dana without her sent her hurrying to the reception and its public phone . |