Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But whether she plays well appears to be a matter of chance . |
| 2 | After a while she became more accustomed to the extreme dark and quite enjoyed blowing out the light and being swallowed up by the billowing darkness . |
| 3 | She moved away to talk to Eustace Tolby who had come with his wife , an elegant Asian woman . |
| 4 | ‘ She chews gum , she likes going to Guns N' Roses concerts and wearing funky clothes — she has even taken to wearing black nail varnish . |
| 5 | She is reading a letter she has just written to her parents . ] |
| 6 | She has also referred to Vasulka 's " investigation of the video signal as a plastic , temporal medium , as electronic energy organized as frequencies , unconfined by the Box ( the video " frame " ) . " |
| 7 | She has since returned to Mexico and we are now pen-pals . |
| 8 | She has already written to the Superior General of the Dublin-based order , and to Cardinal Cathal Daly , the Primate of Ireland . |
| 9 | She has now returned to Zaire and the diary is used as an official document during the school year . |
| 10 | Kate 's social worker organised nursery places for her two small children while she did her A-levels , and she has subsequently gone to a university where she can get creche facilities . |
| 11 | Since 1990 she has really began to surface with work which is not for the faint hearted . |
| 12 | It has never been the Queen 's style to rant and rave when things have gone wrong — and in truth she has never needed to . |
| 13 | In recent years she has often taken to using the catalogue just for herself , looking on the agency commission as a personal discount . |
| 14 | Not that she 'd ever wanted to , as she told Apricot . |
| 15 | It was the first time she 'd ever spoken to Aunt Sarah and come away with this feeling of no comfort , no help , weighing her down as if the big brass door stop from the porch had got lodged inside her . |
| 16 | The worst thought was that maybe she 'd wanted her mother dead ; for she 'd certainly gone to extremes to avoid knowing the truth . |
| 17 | In truth , she 'd never reacted to male advances with such venom before — in fact she 'd always prided herself on being able to stay cool . |
| 18 | She remembered her father 's words after he 'd blamed Ace for his son 's death ; words she 'd never repeated to anybody . |
| 19 | She 'd never resorted to violence in her life , but suddenly the thought of landing a punch square on that granite jaw was enormously appealing . |
| 20 | She could have escaped his hold if she 'd really wanted to . |
| 21 | They 'd been married in a church she 'd always gone to as a child and afterwards there was a reception in the Mansfield Hotel , near by and convenient , and then she and Gordon had gone to Cumberland . |
| 22 | He had certainly researched Grantham and Marsh and the testimonial Sebastian had purportedly given her was in line with the high regard in which she had been told she was held by the company , although she 'd hardly expected to be given such a glowing recommendation . |
| 23 | She 'd hardly spoken to mother all day . |
| 24 | But … she 'd hardly spoken to Adam since the morning he 'd returned from Starr Hills . |
| 25 | She was not very good at smiling these days , and the unease disseminated by her unconvincing efforts led Eddie Duckworth to mutter to her in a corner , with a mixture of sharpness and sorrow , that perhaps she 'd better go to bed . |
| 26 | It was no good saying in her defence that she 'd only meant to be Cara Kingsdale for an hour , because things had n't worked out that way . |
| 27 | It could n't be Dr Kent ; she hardly knew him , she 'd only spoken to him three times , and then briefly . |
| 28 | She came across to speak to him . |
| 29 | She turned away to shout to the android . |
| 30 | Quite deliberately , she summoned the memory of the anguish of six years ago , the job she loved summarily barred to her and her Communications course sacrificed ; and she dwelt especially on the dilemma that had torn at her then , the agonising conflict between her obstinate determination to pursue an uninterrupted career in radio at a time when there were no positions to be had in Johannesburg but possibilities in Durban , and a heart-wrenching reluctance to leave her parents alone when advanced emphysema was shortening her father 's life so cruelly . |