Example sentences of "[pers pn] [subord] she [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You would have spent the night in my arms , Caroline , ’ he caught her hands in one of his as she began to raise them , ‘ crying out my name as I touched you , begging me to take you over and over again , until finally the sun chased away the darkness . ’ |
| 2 | Her eyes linked them until she went to pull together the curtains she knew very well had never met properly . |
| 3 | Mama made me promise to feed you before she agreed to go to bed . |
| 4 | " I asked her if she expected to see him when he got back , and she said , " To be perfectly frank , I do n't know . |
| 5 | Still she hesitated , wanting him to appreciate the gravity of such a revelation and the trust it revealed in her if she chose to make it . |
| 6 | I asked her if she wanted to take the wheel . |
| 7 | ‘ I heard the nurse ask her if she wanted to take a last look at me . |
| 8 | ‘ I was so impressed I gave her a tape with a backing track on it the band had done , and asked her if she wanted to do some work on it . |
| 9 | Leaving Georgia sleeping , he 'd knocked on Yvonne 's door and asked her if she wanted to go swimming . |
| 10 | She said no , she said , he told her if she wanted to go to the expense of a wig , she could get a wig and she wear it when she went out , but when she comes in the house she must take it off , she must not wear that wig |
| 11 | She had said that before , Maria realised , when they had left the theatre and Luke had asked her if she wanted to get a meal somewhere . |
| 12 | Luke Scott meant nothing to her ; he could n't do anything to her if she refused to let him . |
| 13 | She still would have gone to him if she had to crawl . |
| 14 | The widowed queen was granted Stirling castle as a residence , but when she tried to take her son there the Keeper of Edinburgh Castle held on to him until she contrived to smuggle him out . |
| 15 | The slow discovery of her body sent waves of longing coursing through her until she had to close her eyes and bite her lip . |
| 16 | He just went on staring at her until she began to feel uncomfortable and agitated . |
| 17 | She had lied to him because she wished to evade the unpleasant truth of her life as a rich heiress , to try to make a new life free of old ties and old mistakes , where she would be loved as McAllister , who had nothing . |
| 18 | She believed in him because she needed to believe . |
| 19 | Carson liked her because she seemed to display the ideal mix of warmth and distance that made a good neighbour . |
| 20 | I smiled smugly at her because she had to go into the rain and I did not . |
| 21 | But Dot could n't do anything for her because she had to escape . |
| 22 | Besides , living as she now was in a small house on top of two other people , and Dr Neil 's surgery boy , and seeing at close hand the wretched people who frequented his surgery , was giving her insights into the motivations and behaviour of the people around her because she had to consider them , whereas always before , in the past , other people had been compelled to consider her . |
| 23 | Irina , his half-sister and the daughter of Turakina by his father , was kneeling intently on a cushion behind him while she attempted to dress his hair Yek style . |
| 24 | He added that it was entirely up to her whether she chose to assist . |
| 25 | The lift they entered was crowded , forcing them to stand close together , the brush of Luke 's jacket sleeve against her bare arm adding to the difficulty of trying to sort out what she was going to say to him before she agreed to get into the car with him . |
| 26 | ‘ Eighteen , she was , no experience of the world , and had n't they all told her before she left to go to England what a wicked place it was ? ’ he parodied savagely . |
| 27 | Again there was little chance to recognize the effect this considerable list of bereavements was having on her as she continued to take tranquillizers and look after her young children , often singlehanded . |
| 28 | Turmoil raged within her as she battled to find an answer to the seemingly insurmountable dilemma , and she raised her eyes to the grey skies as though a solution could be found there . |
| 29 | I could n't take my eyes off her as she swivelled to rinse the mud from her legs , then flexed her arms , swept back her hair to shake it , and the motion rippled through her body . |
| 30 | They broke into partly-paralysed Rosemarie Smith 's ground-floor flat and brutally attacked her as she tried to escape . |