Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] she [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 2 | One top Australian fashion commentator says : ‘ Diana looks great in the long slit skirts , but she 's got the figure and the legs for short skirts , so if she wants to wear short , good on her . ’ |
| 3 | Now , after countless operations , she is able to walk again , but has bad balance and often falls , especially if she tries to run . |
| 4 | ‘ Meaning — do you slap her down if she dares to ask about the other women in your life ? ’ |
| 5 | Maggie sat on the bed and fumed but it was not long before she started to smile . |
| 6 | The police are very unwilling to interfere in family matters and apparently when she threatened to go to the police whatever he told her he would say to them if she did report her daughter missing convinced her it would be useless for her to take such action . |
| 7 | Coming back round by the house for the third time , she got quite above herself , and the bike began to wobble alarmingly as she fought to control it . |
| 8 | Much as she deserved to travel the world with people of her own social standing , she could no longer hope to do so with a happy hear and a clear conscience . |
| 9 | Much as she hated to admit it , there was a certain crazy logic in Candy 's theory . |
| 10 | Much as she hated to admit it , it was a nice name , masculine , strong , yet soft and pleasant to the ear . |
| 11 | Luckily Tim Dunton had been very understanding , telling her not to worry and to take as long as she needed to sort matters out . |
| 12 | Eve had been there for as long as she remembered to help her fight her battles . |
| 13 | Isabel Leyland , cut down as she went to collect holiday snaps . |
| 14 | I 'm not demanding we spend the entire weekend locked in a clinch , ’ Vitor said impatiently when she started to protest , ‘ but we should appear to be on good terms . |
| 15 | Especially when she happens to have a half-sister who can provide her with a stable and secure home in London ? ’ |
| 16 | Anyone with a spark of humanity would want to help a poor girl left defenceless and hard up , especially when she had to cope with the rearing of a young child , single handed . |
| 17 | Ingrid was in fact twenty-nine , which was young compared with Gesner , but not young for a dancer and she found the routines rather a strain , especially when she had to sing at the end of them . |
| 18 | Her kidneys do n't work properly so she needs to use the machine to take toxins out of her blood . |
| 19 | This was not the time to antagonise him , not if she wanted to get home soon and in one piece . |
| 20 | Who could take over if she decided to retire ? |
| 21 | And she had to drag her gaze away because she began to drown . |
| 22 | She says it 's all happened just because she chose to marry an RAF serviceman . |
| 23 | Just because she had to leave a meeting suddenly did not mean she would relinquish her authority . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've heard of men buying their wives jewellery , cars , houses even — but a hotel , just because she happens to like it ? ’ |
| 25 | But they were still there , she realised , all those doubts … nothing had changed , just because she happened to have ricocheted from Mortimer 's clutches into Guy 's arms this afternoon , just because Guy Sterne 's physical chemistry created a minor explosion when it mingled with hers … |
| 26 | Besides , she was thinking , what on earth had possessed him to come rushing over here just because she wanted to see him ? |
| 27 | This is not always easy , especially when the relationship is going through a sticky patch , but if they can feel close from time to time , the pulling-back will happen less , and Elizabeth could reassure Harry that just because she wants to do things for herself does n't mean that she does n't want him . |
| 28 | Not because she wants to help us . |
| 29 | Inexorably her thoughts turned to suicide , not because she wanted to die but because she desperately wanted help . |
| 30 | She left the other kipper for Oliver , but decided that she would wait a bit longer before she went to fetch him . |