Example sentences of "she [verb] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sweet heaven , ’ she whispered to the empty car , ‘ please let me reach the main road safely . |
| 2 | There was an evening to pass before the midnight flight to London and , despite Tucker 's adamancy that Miss Kennedy would n't see her , she taxied to the Big Bamboo on Wulff Road . |
| 3 | She laughs to the inky sky . |
| 4 | She got to the other side , making for the piazza , and again hugged the shadows . |
| 5 | I mean I do n't know whether she thought she could put them in the garden when she got to the new place and they 'd grow but |
| 6 | When she got to the first landing , her mother 's bedroom door suddenly flew open and her mother burst out . |
| 7 | The first thing Carlie did when she got to the foster home was pull the plastic footrest up close to the TV : ‘ Do n't talk to me when ‘ Young and Restless ’ is on , ’ she warned the foster mother who was standing behind her . |
| 8 | When she got to the little clearing she halted , seeing Léonie there on her knees , looking up at the outcrop of rock . |
| 9 | She had recently been knitting double jacquard , but when she got to the very top of a sleeve , she had a little disaster and dropped the lot ! |
| 10 | When she got to the large graph that shows the state of the church-roof appeal , she stopped and looked down at the waiting crowds as if she was a victorious politician looking down on her compliant voters . |
| 11 | As she clung to the powerful width of his shoulders , trembling from head to foot with the force of her emotions , he grasped the softness of her buttocks and drove deeply , irrevocably into the silken white-hot sheath of her with a harsh , abrupt shout of victory , his lidded gaze brilliant with triumph … |
| 12 | She hopped to the open door to make sure her voice followed him . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , his presence gave Breeze an uncomfortable feeling , and she moved to the far end of the room so that she should not overhear what he was saying . |
| 14 | She referred to the bestial man who fathered her as ‘ him ’ and never ‘ father ’ . |
| 15 | Then she changed to the other leg . |
| 16 | How deeply she 'd slept she did n't appreciate until she woke to the remote hoot of river traffic , and the sound of a pigeon cooing rhythmically just outside the window . |
| 17 | Hours later she woke to the same sensation of calm fulfilment . |
| 18 | ‘ Please do n't be out , ’ she murmured to the empty car as she drove along the quiet country roads . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll take it , ’ she says to the old woman . |
| 20 | As soon as she reached the open deer-park she ran , and she hardly paused until she came to the broad track that sloped down to the marsh , smiling and vivid green in the late afternoon sunshine . |
| 21 | I did n't realise , by the way , that Kathleen was a ‘ rebel ’ , but if so , — apart from Winnie perhaps — she came to the right house ( or House ) . |
| 22 | She came to the spare bedroom , the one she had spent that first unforgettable night in , and slipped inside . |
| 23 | The moment she came to the top step , she realised what the matter was . |
| 24 | She ran along the line , stumbling over the planks , until she came to the old pit and the line of empty skips . |
| 25 | Then she swam along the bank until she came to the old pontoon . |
| 26 | We felt sure she 'd be preyed on when she came to the big city . ’ |
| 27 | And when she came to the last name only the fact that she was already frozen saved her from betraying herself . |
| 28 | Her eyes widened as she came to the last paragraph , and she stared at it before abruptly crumpling the paper and stuffing it back into her case . |
| 29 | She came to the last button and , plucking up all her courage , slipped the dress off her shoulders and let it drop to the floor . |
| 30 | She climbed to the highest bench , where there was still some room . |