Example sentences of "she [vb past] a [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One evening , she made a rare outing to the local discotheque in her home town of Dusseldorf . |
| 2 | With Puddephat 's disappearance in the news , it would not seem odd if she made a casual reference to it over dinner . |
| 3 | She made a major contribution to Macmillan London , which she leaves as a profitable and successful part of the group . ’ |
| 4 | Now Tim appears to have rekindled Princess Anne 's interest in sailing — she paid £94,000 for the 36-footer Blue Doublet earlier this year — and last year she made a glowing contribution to a celebrity compilation of ideas of Paradise . |
| 5 | Having thus resigned herself to the passive lifestyle of a semi-invalid literary lady , she became a regular contributor to the Spectator , then edited by her father 's close friend Richard Holt Hutton [ q.v. ] , in which she published over fifty articles between 1880 and 1893 . |
| 6 | It was there in the summer of 1980 that she became a serious candidate to be the Prince 's bride . |
| 7 | She became a prolific contributor to magazines and newspapers , and began to have books and novels published . |
| 8 | ‘ She bore a striking resemblance to the notorious James Bond character Rosa Klebb , ’ Anne wrote . |
| 9 | She described a recent visit to her local Samaritans ' branch , where a voluntary worker told her that they received telephone calls from teenagers who were ‘ so filled with fear , and so depressed by the constant threat of a nuclear accident ’ that they had to be deterred from committing suicide . |
| 10 | She still , at this point , disliked the songs and it was n't until she was in the studio and involved that she found a passionate core to the music and began to revel in it . |
| 11 | But she used a different technique to the others when it came to the salting . |
| 12 | As it was early afternoon there were no madding crowds , and she secured a first-class compartment to herself . |
| 13 | She lifted a lined face to him , and he reached over for another Kleenex and smoothed the wetness away , so that she was almost without makeup . |
| 14 | His cool , shuttered gaze had dropped slowly to the open neck of her blouse , and , suddenly tingling with self-consciousness , she lifted a casual hand to her throat , fingering the silky collar , her skin warming under that overtly masculine scrutiny . |
| 15 | She caused a great army to be collected , and she set off at the head of the army to punish Oleg Ban . |
| 16 | She seemed a charming girl to me . |
| 17 | She turned a weary face to him . |
| 18 | She would n't be keeping the Law if she turned a deaf ear to the call or ran away from it . |
| 19 | Before returning home she paid a private visit to Kentucky . |
| 20 | At first she showed a marked aversion to the godliness and simplicity of life in Kidderminster . |
| 21 | She showed a profound deference to the beauty she described , never searching for meaning or metaphor in the landscape , never striving to achieve what Keats would later call the ‘ wordsworthian or egotistical sublime ’ . |
| 22 | She owed a notable debt to Jews . |
| 23 | She broke off , colour running up her face as she pressed a guilty hand to her mouth . |
| 24 | The reason people thought she was naked all through the film was because she displayed a different attitude to sex from the one that prevailed in films at that time . |
| 25 | She took a great fancy to me , used to buy me presents . |
| 26 | And if she took a sudden dislike to a client , or observed one member behaving badly to another , her command , ‘ Out , cunt ! ’ , sent them packing . |
| 27 | Although ylang-ylang is generally regarded as an aphrodisiac oil in aromatherapy , not a good choice in the circumstances one might have thought , she took an instant dislike to the less interesting herbal essences . |
| 28 | In particular , during the discrimination trials , the children ‘ dutifully ’ followed the example set by the model , even when she took an indirect route to the boxes , which more than doubled the distance to be travelled and ‘ was clearly incompatible with the subjects ’ eagerness to get to the containers ' . |
| 29 | She sent a frantic look to where Caspar was now standing and saw that the Melanisms had reached him as well now ; his legs and knees were already covered . |
| 30 | She sent an especial message to you . |