Example sentences of "[vb past] she [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was looking for female voices , he remembered Jakki , invited her to submit some tapes and — presto ! — she was offered a job in The Smoke . |
| 2 | Her face went blank , but this time Guy saw the effort it cost her to regain that air of remote calm , and her eyes still held a mute appeal that stabbed him to the heart . |
| 3 | The side letter advised her to take independent advice . |
| 4 | He advised her to spend more time with the Prince of Wales . |
| 5 | Then something , a movement to her right , caused her to turn that way . |
| 6 | However , she realised the wisdom of his words , but hunger and the sound of the lunch bell caused her to discard all thoughts of a long soak , and instead of running a bath she stood beneath the soothing waters of a hot shower . |
| 7 | I told her to cancel those flowers . ’ |
| 8 | Just told her to take light clothes . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I told her to check that seal . ’ |
| 10 | I told her to buy this island . |
| 11 | I told her to forget bloody implants , what would her babies think ? |
| 12 | I told her to forget this doctor nonsense and talk more reasonably about the oilman and his petrodollars and what he had her do In the dying moments she made a noise I 'd never heard her make before , a rhythmical whimpering of abandonment or entreaty , a lost sound . |
| 13 | In 1990 , Debbie 's proposal to curate a collection of artwork about childbirth was accepted by A Space , one of Canada 's oldest parallel alternative artist-run centres and arts publications throughout Canada and the U.S.A. A grant from the Canada Council Explorations programme allowed her to choose 40 artists , including some whose work was shipped from the far coasts of Canada Council Explorations programme allowed her to choose 40 artists , including some whose work was shipped from the far coasts of Canada and from scattered points in the U.S.A. Faced with a tremendous volume of committed , powerful work from every discipline , her curatorial decision was to be inclusive rather than exclusive ; to show-case the incredible diversity of personalities , experiences and methods that have been employed to address this long repressed subject matter . |
| 14 | In 1990 , Debbie 's proposal to curate a collection of artwork about childbirth was accepted by A Space , one of Canada 's oldest parallel alternative artist-run centres and arts publications throughout Canada and the U.S.A. A grant from the Canada Council Explorations programme allowed her to choose 40 artists , including some whose work was shipped from the far coasts of Canada Council Explorations programme allowed her to choose 40 artists , including some whose work was shipped from the far coasts of Canada and from scattered points in the U.S.A. Faced with a tremendous volume of committed , powerful work from every discipline , her curatorial decision was to be inclusive rather than exclusive ; to show-case the incredible diversity of personalities , experiences and methods that have been employed to address this long repressed subject matter . |
| 15 | Once she had identified her goals she , together with her BTEC Course Tutor at her College , chose options on the National Diploma which allowed her to pursue these aims . |
| 16 | Clothes were irrelevant … only flesh mattered to her where Damian was concerned , because she did not just want the hard , ambitious chairman of the board , but the man of flesh and blood whom she loved more powerfully than she could put into words , and only the silent communication of their bodies allowed her to express that love … |
| 17 | He encouraged her to take public baths , he saw that she ate properly — though indifferent to food himself — and behaved with her like a caring mother , the kind of affectionate mother who had always inspired him . |
| 18 | He would never ask her why she was pulling faces , in case it encouraged her to pull worse ones . |
| 19 | He taught her to make easy corn dollies . |
| 20 | I phoned Annie and asked her to cancel both performances today , and those on Monday and Tuesday . |
| 21 | With this in mind , we searched out one of Britain 's leading exponents of the Gothic bodice-ripper and asked her to inject some life into the first ascent of the Eiger 's north face . |
| 22 | A moment 's thought led her to reject this course of action . |
| 23 | She disregarded such things altogether , rather relished them , in fact ; and she must have been very strong , because I never knew her to show any weakness , nor to be other than her usual cheerful , robust-spirited self . |
| 24 | Then her hairdresser persuaded her to do some modelling . |
| 25 | It was her second husband , David , who died 16 years ago , who persuaded her to adopt orphaned elephants to see if they could be nursed through their grief and restored to health . |
| 26 | In 1990 Chevallier won a Northern Arts travel award which enabled her to spend six weeks in New York . |
| 27 | An allowance from her father over and above her paltry salary enabled her to buy these commodities whenever , and indeed wherever , they were available . |
| 28 | With a career as an actress already established it was the success of Lynda La Plante 's 12 part series for Euston Films , WIDOWS , ( 1982 ) , which enabled her to concentrate full time on writing . |
| 29 | Several hours later he drove her half a mile to a car park in Whitehorse Lane , South Norwood , near Sainsbury 's supermarket , and forced her to take some money from a cash point machine . |
| 30 | In the normal course of her work at Coronation Hospital , she would never come into such personal contact with a man as important as Dr Greene , and she would have to remember that he wanted her to recognise this fact while she was Faye Hamilton 's nurse . |