Example sentences of "she [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The therapist also suggested that Pamela should tell her parents more about what she was doing ; for example , what time she planned to come home in the evening . |
| 2 | On the following Monday she proposed to go back to the job she had taken to make it financially possible for Peter and her to buy their little home . |
| 3 | When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped . |
| 4 | Even though she tried to listen out for the sound of a returning car , the castle and the road leading up to it remained as silent as the grave . |
| 5 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 6 | She tried to make out from the hill , as she jogged down the track , whether the ferryboat was plying among the craft in the harbour . |
| 7 | When she tried to get out of the passenger door , he struck her again and called her more names . ’ |
| 8 | I talked to Mum , and she tried to think back to the day she met Elaine , and she remembered I was born in a nursing home in Birkleigh . |
| 9 | She tried to peer out of the peephole in her blind . |
| 10 | She tried to catch up with the machine , but she did n't want to attract any undue attention from the IMC troopers , and the thing seemed determined to ignore her . |
| 11 | She seemed to light up at the idea . |
| 12 | She turned to look out over the battlements again and raised her voice just as the sun broke through . |
| 13 | She turned to smile benevolently at the scurrying passengers behind her . |
| 14 | Sighing , she turned to stare out of the window . |
| 15 | But some few weeks later she happened to bring home from the library a volume of Marx 's early writings . |
| 16 | She began to scrabble about in the dirt . |
| 17 | She began to back out of the room , trying to focus on a picture hanging behind the old man on the wall above the mantelpiece , a weird dark picture in which an angel of vengeance flew across a purple sky lit by flashes of lightning , sword in hand , and below a man with blood streaming from his neck prayed for mercy . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't you dare presume to tell me what I need ! ’ she spat , trembling as she began to clamber on to the quayside . |
| 19 | With a confused little shake of her head , she began to glance quickly through the leaflet about the Battle of the Boyne . |
| 20 | With Thérèse at her side she began to walk back towards the house . |
| 21 | She began to look forward to the following Wednesday — Who knew where they might end up ? |
| 22 | She began to run away from the van , round the side of the building in the direction of Charley 's place . |
| 23 | She started to scrape again with the shard of pottery . |
| 24 | Ca n't get enough of them , ’ interrupted Dexter with a broad smile , anxious to push the superintendent off her soapbox before she started to sound off about the worthlessness of most television . |
| 25 | She loved to walk out into the villages where she would sit round the fire or outside a hut shelling peanuts with a family , so that she learned first hand many of the African customs and quickly mastered the language . |
| 26 | My er my sister worked in the grenade shop and erm after she ca she 'd been working at , on the manor , do you know the manor at Willenhall and then er she decided to go on with the war work and she was courting the man named , John and his father was the timekeeper , later H & T Hornes , but erm it fizzled out and anyway the romance did but erm |
| 27 | Remembering Philippe Bonard 's invitation to use the pool whenever she wished , she decided to call in at the Auberge de la Fontaine and pick up her swimming costume . |
| 28 | After days of reflection she decided to write back in the same icy terms Philip had used with her . |
| 29 | She decided to head straight for the drawing-room at the back of the house , where she worked . |
| 30 | Consequently , she decided to walk northwards along the edge of the moor , safe in the knowledge that if the snow should begin to fall again before she found George , she only needed to make her way downwards and she would come across Hodge Beck , which she could follow southwards to safety . |