Example sentences of "she [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The symptoms she endured varied from month to month , worsening or improving according to the circumstances of her life at the time . |
| 2 | Celia Cviic ( no , it 's not a typist 's error ) sends two recipes for burek based on street snacks she has eaten on visits to her husband 's family in Yugoslavia ; one with a meat filling , one spinach and cheese . |
| 3 | There had been so much to see and she 'd ached for Fernando to be beside her to show her everything . |
| 4 | She 'd driven from Newcastle to virtually to with the choke on ! |
| 5 | It was a bit cheaper living here in an older neighbourhood than in the heart of the city , so she had n't had to tap into what she 'd earned as companion to Anna Sabatini . |
| 6 | What woman in her right mind would choose what she 'd left in Milan to what he was offering her here , in Rome ? |
| 7 | It was unusual for her to have been alone then , but she had asked for time to herself . |
| 8 | Usually Beth accompanied her to town , but , seeing as the Hansom would be going right by the flower-shop , she had arranged for Cissie to be dropped off there . |
| 9 | She had travelled to Maidenhead to his old address and the new occupants of his small mansion had no idea where he had gone . |
| 10 | She had travelled from Rosyth to Glasgow , hardly any distance at all , yet still she had missed her connection . |
| 11 | She racked her brains to remember what she had said about Barnes to David Fairfax , but she had said nothing , only that he came from Woodlands Incorporated — and that , because she was still holding his card in her hand . |
| 12 | Miss Jeanette told how in the early hours of that day she had gone with Nichol to a nearby beauty spot and they tried unsuccessfully to have sex . |
| 13 | ‘ But she had gone with Dean to a party after a family wedding . |
| 14 | She had gone from happiness to misery and back again in what seemed no more than hours , and the speed of the changes had left her with a sense of unreality that she found impossible to shake off . |
| 15 | When she had rung in response to the advertisement card on the board in the Tadley Post Office , she had n't thought of where the classes might be . |
| 16 | If she had spoken in charity to an unhappy invalid it had also been negligent of a larger truth : that they were representative of two very different principles — ; principles that might meet only in an hour of need , or in honest confrontation with one another . |
| 17 | She had borrowed a small tape recorder from Jarvis and was going to record her own playing , a critical exercise that she had postponed from day to day . |
| 18 | Remember , all her life she had wandered from place to place , sleeping in a tent or under the stars . |
| 19 | The evening before she had talked about Rose to Charley ; she could n't believe Rose was a murderer . |
| 20 | Between these , gold-dark , dark-gold and violent pink , lay Lady Rose Martindale , solid but not fat or for in less , indeed very woman-shaped , in pink-and-brown striped silk bathing suit , with gold hair spattered softly over the brown flesh of her shoulders and whitish sand speckled on the gleam of her thighs where she had rolled from side to side . |
| 21 | Ace had retreated from Kate , and she was made painfully aware that his reservations about her had grown in proportion to her failure to find out why his car was under-performing . |
| 22 | For a long time his death was concealed from her ; her mother and others told her had gone to Europe to be cured . |