Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1990 she has really began to surface with work which is not for the faint hearted . |
| 2 | She 'd never resorted to violence in her life , but suddenly the thought of landing a punch square on that granite jaw was enormously appealing . |
| 3 | She 'd hardly spoken to mother all day . |
| 4 | She was not very good at smiling these days , and the unease disseminated by her unconvincing efforts led Eddie Duckworth to mutter to her in a corner , with a mixture of sharpness and sorrow , that perhaps she 'd better go to bed . |
| 5 | She decided not to go to communion . |
| 6 | The men disappeared behind a distant quayside shed , but she dared not trust to luck and hid behind a winch . |
| 7 | She do n't go to work no more , and sometimes she cries for no reason . |
| 8 | She did not go to bed . |
| 9 | But unlike them she did not come to office during a wartime emergency nor head a coalition government . |
| 10 | She did n't go to work today . |
| 11 | Well perhaps that 's why she did n't go to sleep . |
| 12 | The only thing you had to watch out was that she did n't start to stagger and put one of them feet down on you a bit sharp , or fell on you as she were a-swaying about with her jink-back . |
| 13 | Full skirts — goodness knows how many petticoats made walking very hard , so all this almost enforced leisure upon them , and this was again part of the duty of the woman to show that she did n't need to work , she did n't in fact even have to lift a finger because the man or her servants would do all this for her . |
| 14 | She did n't come to church , or to Sunday school . |
| 15 | I could see the American woman was angry , but she did n't come to Monsignor 's support . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps she was a touch stocky , but she had n't run to fat the way that most of them do . |
| 17 | Even though she had n't got to bed till the small hours , and had been feeling totally exhausted , she 'd been tossing and turning for what seemed like hours , utterly unable to sleep . |
| 18 | She had just got to incarceration in a convent for the rest of her days when they arrived at the top of the stairs . |
| 19 | It was n't only the words she had just used to Marguerite . |
| 20 | She had also brought to school an old milk-can and other artefacts . |
| 21 | In any case , she had now got to thinking of other things . |
| 22 | When they are included , it is usually for the frisson connected with them as omens of mortality and transience , as in the poetry of melancholy : Clarissa , for example , is frequently threatened by her family with imprisonment in the moated house of her Uncle Anthony , if she does not agree to marriage with the odious Mr Solmes . |
| 23 | One small girl and she does n't go to school . |
| 24 | Go to bed at half seven , she does n't go to sleep until about quarter past ten some nights reading |
| 25 | Amber , well she does n't talk to Amber any more . |
| 26 | Farley brings a serious , concert-platform manner to the songs , she does n't stick to soprano arias but includes some adaptations of choral numbers from Happy End and Berlin Requiem as well as Mrs Peachum 's ‘ Ballade von der Sexuellen Hörigkeit ’ . |
| 27 | She did n't know at the time that some day she would call herself ‘ artist ’ or ‘ writer ’ — not many teenage coloured girls from the Gorbals in Glasgow had trailblazed a path in that direction , so it was a real exploration into the unknown for her when at sixteen she set out to go to college to study fashion . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's all right , ’ Carrie stammered , ‘ she 's just gone to sleep , ’ and Hepzibah nodded and touched her chin lightly and lovingly and said , ‘ I 'd best go to her then , you stay here with Albert . ’ |
| 29 | And I listen at the wall for sounds from Jancey , but it 's as quiet as a pillow , and she 's obviously gone to bed . |