Example sentences of "she [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always a sickly woman , she expected to die in 1855 after a doctor had pronounced a disease of the heart to be fatal and quickly wrote her autobiography . |
| 2 | The bike was in his space when she got to work at eight . |
| 3 | It was a shaky whisper against his shoulder , and then she ceased to think at all , simply shut her eyes and let the hot , sweet river of desire flow unchecked through her veins and her limbs and her bloodstream . |
| 4 | With Miss Stocks 's support , the Cassell Trust grant was renewed yet again , but Miss Green appeared to have lost her former enthusiasm for breaking new ground and she concentrated her efforts in established WEA branches with the exception of Corby which she helped to re-establish in 1936 . |
| 5 | There was no gentleness like Lisa 's fierce love ; and she tried to respond to that while another darker voice called her to unconsciousness and silence . |
| 6 | ‘ No … ! ’ she tried to say against that forceful mouth , but he either did n't hear , or did n't want to hear . |
| 7 | She tried to count to ten , and tried even harder to remember what that astrologer had said to her , but had that astrologer really known what she was talking about anyway ? |
| 8 | With a little frown , she tried to think of another reason . |
| 9 | She tried to concentrate on that particular pain . |
| 10 | She tried to concentrate on this so as not to have to think about what Finn was saying . |
| 11 | Sleepily she tried to adjust for this situation , flipping over and snuggling into the heated surface of his chest . |
| 12 | First she stopped at the coffee house to see if all was ready , then she stopped to speak to one of the servants . |
| 13 | Yet when she came to think about this further , she realised that she was nowhere near understanding Brian . |
| 14 | She came to speak on neonatal care at one of the obs and gynae meetings . |
| 15 | As she prepared to leave for one of her foraging expeditions , Sycorax would poke up at her and hiss , ‘ Do n't let them see what you pick ! |
| 16 | For a time it overcame her , and she seemed to drift in black depths . |
| 17 | The old lady spoke to me occasionally , but I noticed that she seemed to lapse into quiet moods . |
| 18 | She seemed to think about that for a moment — how sad it had been — and then started to laugh . |
| 19 | And even so , she deserved to die for attempted treason . |
| 20 | Then she turned to speak to all the eagles there , for most were listening in silence to her except those , and there were some , who had been so long in the Cages or so affected by them that they showed interest in nothing but food , their spirit killed by imprisonment . |
| 21 | She began to sort through some reservation cards . |
| 22 | Now she began to wonder about that ; it could n't simply be because she 'd disliked him , since she 'd disliked clients before , but that had n't prevented her from giving them the same professional treatment she gave to everyone . |
| 23 | She began to fiddle with some clothes from an open machine , dropping pairs of briefs and socks on to the floor . |
| 24 | She began to look into alternative methods of treatment — natural remedies , hypnotherapy , etc — and resented me for not participating and not having the right attitude . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ he said again , and the floodgates really opened , and she began to cry for all the bewilderment of feelings he had caused in her . |
| 26 | She began to cry in earnest and Tony , for the first time in his life , felt emotion for a working girl . |
| 27 | She started to hop from one foot to the other . |
| 28 | She started to cry with happy relief and Hepzibah put her mending aside and took her on to her lap as if she were Nick . |
| 29 | Through her efforts a mission hall was built , where she started to lecture on moral purity . |
| 30 | The pool in their own garden had been filled in by her father five years before when her baby brother had drowned there ; but she loved to sit by cool water , inured to the stinging flies which gave people from the north so much trouble . |