Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She tried to control an urge to pull at the ropes of jewels , coils of bracelets , the heavy tiara pressing into her scalp . |
| 32 | On her way to her desk she tried to collect a beaker of iced water but the machine was empty and a knot of querulous men were standing around it demanding something be done . |
| 33 | She tried to suppress a laugh but a brief honk came through . |
| 34 | A pensioner is in hospital with serious burns after her house exploded as she tried to light a gas fire . |
| 35 | Mum could see she was getting nowhere so she tried shedding a tear or two . |
| 36 | Mrs Bristow , of central London , who worked as a court reporter , fell from the third-floor as she tried to open a sash window in the press room at the court . |
| 37 | The UK 's position in the mid 1960s provides a good example since she tried to avoid a change in her par value for as long as possible but in the end was forced to devalue because of increasing capital outflows . |
| 38 | But the gloom did n't lift , so she tried to make a triumph of running away , but even that had lost its glory . |
| 39 | She tried to make a movement of resistance , but it only seemed to aid the passage of his touch . |
| 40 | But he looked so hurt that she tried to make a joke of it , |
| 41 | Later she tried to make an oven out of an iron safe , but it did not work . |
| 42 | She tried to find a way to explain without hurting him too much . |
| 43 | She tried to find a moment to squeeze in a bit of rest at the sauna , something she could not do during the week ; in the late afternoon , she would always find herself with a vacuum cleaner and duster , because the cleaning woman who came on Fridays was becoming more and more careless . |
| 44 | She tried to get a reading first off the youth then off his whimpering colleague . |
| 45 | Oxford Crown Court 's been hearing how a British Airways stewardess from Thame was threatened with death when she tried to end an affair with her boyfriend . |
| 46 | She tried to frame a question . |
| 47 | He was caught when she tried to pay an 80p supermarket bill with a forged £20 note . |
| 48 | Why she always sounded hoarse was because she had a masculine voice and to cover it up she pretended to have a cold . |
| 49 | What she going to , what she applying to get a degree ? |
| 50 | Sources close to the leggy catwalk queen , who signed a £1.2 million pop deal , say she has written a lot of lyrics and whoever matches them best to music will go into the studio with her . |
| 51 | Not like her , Maggie , she has to put a lot of effort into looking nice . |
| 52 | She has obtained a City and Guilds qualification in Horticulture which at present she uses ‘ only working part-time at a garden centre ! ’ but hopes to do more with it in the future . |
| 53 | ‘ Whereas the said John Weston Foakes is indebted to the said Julia Beer and she has obtained a judgment in Her Majesty 's High Court of Justice , Exchequer Division , for the sum of £2,090 19s . |
| 54 | The study concludes that ‘ She has become a mistress of the pre-planned , carefully packaged appearance . ’ . |
| 55 | TELEVISION presenter Jayne Irving tells me she has become a forces ' pin-up in Bosnia . |
| 56 | More commonly , the minister under attack is shielded by collective responsibility and the decision as to whether he or she goes or stays is one for the Prime Minister , based on the criteria of the extent to which he or she has become a liability to the government . |
| 57 | She is now divorced and after periods of University Lecturing at Bristol and Manchester she has become a teacher at Withington Girls ' School . |
| 58 | Link correspondent has reported many employees ' weddings in the past , but now she has become a bride herself . |
| 59 | She has become a hospital ‘ link worker ’ , interpreting for members of London 's Greek community who do n't speak English . |
| 60 | She has become a parody of herself , doomed to spend the rest of her life acting out her own mythical qualities . |