Example sentences of "she [adv] [verb] to [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slowly got to her feet , her eyes wide with fear . |
| 2 | Staggering slightly , she eventually lurched to her feet . |
| 3 | ‘ I know what you mean , doctor , and no ; no , he has n't , but- ’ She suddenly sprang to her feet and was standing rigid . |
| 4 | She suddenly rose to her feet , pushing her chair back and reaching for her bag . |
| 5 | It was important for Oreste 's sake to keep good relations and so with a good deal of lip-biting and general effort of control she finally wrote to her sister in most moderate terms expressing surprise , confessing intense distress , but apportioning no blame . |
| 6 | Donna said nothing ; she just dropped to her knees , the .38 still gripped in her fist , face bruised , her lip bleeding . |
| 7 | She quickly dropped to her knees , and popped it into her mouth before he could run away . |
| 8 | And then , as her dazed mind finally absorbed the fact that it really was Ross , and not a figment of her overheated imagination , she quickly jumped to her feet and ran swiftly across the floor towards him . |
| 9 | Yet she always came to his rescue when he was in difficulties . ’ |
| 10 | Finally she made her choice and gave the reasons for it with the confidence she always brought to her work . |
| 11 | This was the only complaint she ever made to her husband . |
| 12 | Has she ever come to your house since ? |
| 13 | And Madame Dietrich describes this in a letter which she later wrote to her brother . |
| 14 | She also wrote to her brother , whom she had mostly but not altogether forgiven for his betrayal of her to her mother . |
| 15 | Lindsey smiled as she also rose to her feet . |
| 16 | She also referred to her mother in a slightly dismissive way in the course of two reported interviews . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's how I spent the best years of my life , ’ she often said to her son . |
| 18 | Lady Selvedge , she now realised to her surprise , was wearing low-heeled walking shoes , not really quite the thing with her elaborately draped velvet toque but eminently sensible . |
| 19 | She immediately sprang to her feet and shouted at the top of her voice : ‘ HEY HAL . |
| 20 | She then signed to her husband and Susan to leave the room . |
| 21 | Ordering coffee she then pointed to my pullover and shook her finger . |
| 22 | No she never comes to my house now . |
| 23 | She never replied to my letter with relevant copy pages from JTR 's book enclosed . |
| 24 | Before she actually rose to her feet , Jonadab spoke again . |
| 25 | Baldwin then went to meet her at Victoria Station and walked the half mile to their Eaton Square house with her , describing , as she subsequently wrote to her husband 's mother , what had happened , in slightly breathless terms : |
| 26 | She hurriedly got to her feet . |
| 27 | And , since she , too , was n't at all hungry — and would have done practically anything to avoid having to sit down at such an overtly romantic candle-lit dinner — she reluctantly agreed to his suggestion . |