Example sentences of "she [adv] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was so afraid of losing this heaven-sent opportunity , yet she did n't know how to ask the question she so desperately needed to ask . |
| 2 | As for Lucinda 's birth — she still shuddered just to think of it , and she had prayed that the next one would produce the son she so desperately needed to enable her to call a halt to the whole disagreeable business . |
| 3 | She so desperately wanted to know what was going to happen when she returned . |
| 4 | She had left him , just as she so often threatened to do . |
| 5 | There was one member whose sight was so bad that when she read she not only had to prop a second pair of spectacles on top of the pair already resting on her nose , but also had to stand under the standard lamp almost pressed against the light bulb . |
| 6 | Her hands moved to unbutton his shirt , and , that done , she not only wanted to stroke the golden down on his body , but to see that body , to see him . |
| 7 | And above all there 's Juliette Greco singing Si tu t'imagines , which is a Raymond Queneau poem , and Sartre 's Rue des Blancs Manteaux , perhaps the worst pop lyric ever , which she just about manages to save . |
| 8 | But when on first hearing of this arrangement I tried to inform Miss Kenton of it , she once again refused to converse with me , and in order to accomplish matters as quickly as possible I was actually obliged to write a note and put it under the door of her parlour . |
| 9 | She probably just had to have her little weep as part of the whole business . |
| 10 | She really always wanted to stay in bed . ’ |
| 11 | In the end she had become so used to living the lie of marital contentment that she bad perhaps come to believe it herself . |
| 12 | Another of my concerns was that Mrs Allen would not bother to cook and eat meals now that she no longer had to prepare anything for her husband . |
| 13 | Actress Maureen Lipman , who played a Jewish mother in the long-running series of ads , said earlier this year she no longer wanted to play Beattie . |
| 14 | She no longer needed to jump in the swimming pool to raise £5 , though if it had been necessary she would probable have done it : " You believe in God but you also use every means possible to raise funds . |
| 15 | It was cooler tonight than it had been of late , besides which she no longer dared to sleep in her underwear , and she pulled on a shortie nightshirt , a farewell present from her brothers . |
| 16 | Conversation was easier now , and although Alison noticed that Carson managed to keep it centred around her life and background she no longer tried to push and probe . |
| 17 | However , these particular instances do not meet the general proposition that if the husband and wife have drifted apart , and the woman has made it known that she no longer wants to have sex with her husband , it is wrong that the husband who has sex with her without her consent is exempt from conviction for rape . |
| 18 | Mrs Thatcher yesterday had the honesty to admit that inflation is ‘ far too high ’ , but she no more deigned to explain what has gone wrong than the Chancellor had the day before . |
| 19 | She no more wanted to trudge all the way back to her jeep than she wanted to stay here arguing with this infuriating man . |
| 20 | She never again wanted to experience the feeling of being out of control and dependent on someone else 's approval , at someone else 's mercy . |
| 21 | She never again wanted to experience that feeling which led women to do too much for , and demand too much from , a partner . |
| 22 | She never again wanted to feel that someone else could send her to heaven or to hell . |
| 23 | She never even said to ask me |
| 24 | My mother was so dazzled she never even thought to question him about his job , but she grew to live for the visits he made daily to the shop . |
| 25 | She never really had to do something in English , did she ? |
| 26 | However , she never once attempted to nibble at her daily offering of oats in all the eight weeks she spent at the stud . |
| 27 | The travelling , the exigencies of the business , the constant promotional activity , prolonged absences , his own mercurial nature , made life difficult for Susy if she stayed at home and not much better if she accompanied James on the circuit , something she never much liked to do . |
| 28 | I mean , erm she actually then chooses to walk up and down the third storey erm couple of pages later , Jane , when she wants a bit of solitude . |
| 29 | She very much wanted to respect W. 's wishes , but feared that some of the other adolescents in the unit were not helping W. |
| 30 | Either she was left with the excellent non-skiing kindergarten , which she enjoyed but where she did not learn to ski , something she very much wanted to do , or she had to be put into skischool . |