Example sentences of "[Wh adv] she [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She automatically crossed her arms across her chest , a habit she had adopted whenever she spoke to James . |
| 2 | J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. , 1972 ) she tells of her first meeting with the composer , of his influence on her technique and interpretation , of how she came to terms with the music , of Plante and other virtuosi , and gives a detailed analysis of various pieces . |
| 3 | Whereas before she had been a rough-and-ready Italian peasant , flashing with high spirits , now she thought a little about how she seemed to others and tempered her boisterous good humour . |
| 4 | ‘ Why she returned to Ireland , do you mean ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ That 's why she went to Meath . |
| 6 | She learned how much of a lie in August , when she went to Seth 's house and walked in on what she later called ‘ a horror show ’ . |
| 7 | He wondered if she hung them on a china hand at night when she went to bed . |
| 8 | Dorothy Two cried all day and cried all night , and Margaret 's only respite was when she went to work , to the factory-cleaning job she had had to take . |
| 9 | It was only when she went to America , headlining for the first time , that she came across the curious racial classification with which music there is compartmentalised . |
| 10 | It was only when she went to supper that she found the reason why . |
| 11 | The final irony was when she took to psychology . |
| 12 | ‘ It was like them pictures of Hell we used to get in Sunday school , ’ she told the other women when she returned to work two days later . |
| 13 | She also took to pastry-making , which she continued to practise at a local confectioner 's when she returned to Epsom in 1854 , though her family thought this to be ‘ ultra modern and not quite nice ’ . |
| 14 | She had lived in Slovenia between 1970 and 1983 when she moved to Krk to get married . |
| 15 | Things changed last summer when she spoke to Dr John Elliston , Minister of Grange Road Baptist Church , who suggested using the church basement . |
| 16 | Doug Robertson last saw Rabina Ali at the end of September when she flew to Karachi for a family holiday . |
| 17 | Bailed driver Mrs Jill Gunns , 47 , was warned of the possible charges when she reported to police yesterday . |
| 18 | I think she was twenty-eight when she learned to milk , and she said it made her knees shake . |
| 19 | Measuring applause does not reveal that the movie was memorable for the woman in the third row because the building on screen reminded her of where she went to school and all those childhood memories came flooding back intercut with the film while the auditorium gently shook as an underground train passed beneath and cigarette ash fluttered down from the balcony in the projector beam . |
| 20 | Another survivor , who was brought up in Leith , where she went to Bell 's School , owed her introduction to printing to a neighbour " a Miss Taylor " , who told her widowed mother that young Jenny would be " just suited " to the printing trade , and herself took her up for interview . |
| 21 | From a perspective in anthropology where social systems were all equally valid , I teased her about cultural police rigidities which caused this rejection of the alternative views she was being asked to examine , to the point where she refused to lunch with me in the Students ' Union , because , ‘ you 're one of those bloody communists I have to listen to ’ . |