Example sentences of "she [vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She expected to take them through the process several times , demonstrating the skills and strategies involved , and gradually increasing the amount which they were able to tackle independently , before they could manage by themselves . |
| 2 | His appointment as a Bishop , was in the immediate aftermath of the closing of the Second Vatican Council ; which was to pose new challenges to the whole Church as she sought to renew herself under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit . |
| 3 | She agreed to accompany me to the building society the next day so that we could withdraw Charlie 's share of the money . |
| 4 | After this she ceased to blame herself for the breakdown of their marriage , but instead expressed considerable anger towards her husband . |
| 5 | And then she tried to put it in the washing machine for a joke and the dog was gon na get in . |
| 6 | She tried to goad herself through the panic . |
| 7 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 8 | She tried to raise herself from the settee but gentle hands restrained her . |
| 9 | She tried to limit herself to the most important ones ( to nod ‘ yes ’ or shake her head ‘ no ’ , to point at an object her companion had failed to see ) , to use only gestures that did not pretend to be her original expression . |
| 10 | ‘ You are naughty , wicked and bad , ’ she cried as she pretended to hit him over the head . |
| 11 | See , she came to see me on the bridge . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
| 13 | As she did so she seemed to notice me for the first time . |
| 14 | Her head turned restlessly on the pillow as she strove to distance herself from the increasingly excited voice of the commentator and the air-splitting whine of the high-revving engines . |
| 15 | Desperately trying to pull herself together , she strove to console herself with the thought that , if Ross could hardly remember their brief marriage , it was obviously going to make matters easier for them both during this hurried trip to America . |
| 16 | ‘ We believe she arranged to meet someone up the mountain . |
| 17 | ‘ We believe she arranged to meet someone up the mountain . |
| 18 | But soon she began to detach herself from the girls sitting hand in hand in the Bun Shop and from their faintly rebuking way of going at their books . |
| 19 | She started to tap herself on the forehead . |
| 20 | The tour finished in the kitchen and she started to busy herself around the cooker . |
| 21 | With her hand on the iron banister , she started to pull herself towards the rooftops . |
| 22 | This time she started to interrogate me from the very beginning . |
| 23 | Lady , a Jack Russell from Hampshire , loves travelling in her owner 's van so much that she decided to transform it into the perfect den to have her puppies . |
| 24 | Even if resources had been plentiful , Russia lacked the roads and railways she needed to get them to the front . |
| 25 | It had been silly to think that she needed to protect him from the horror . |
| 26 | After checking that I was not talking to the media , I asked what the nature of her enquiry was , and she proceeded to furnish me with the facts . |
| 27 | I could get no further information from Mrs Fairfax about Mr Rochester , but instead she offered to show me round the whole house . |
| 28 | Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground . |
| 29 | ’ And she meant to use it to the full , though perhaps not in this wasteful way . |
| 30 | If schemas are widely held , it should usually be obvious to the manager what they are — especially , of course , if he or she aimed to establish them in the first place . |