Example sentences of "she [vb past] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sweet heaven , ’ she whispered to the empty car , ‘ please let me reach the main road safely . |
| 2 | There was an evening to pass before the midnight flight to London and , despite Tucker 's adamancy that Miss Kennedy would n't see her , she taxied to the Big Bamboo on Wulff Road . |
| 3 | She got to the other side , making for the piazza , and again hugged the shadows . |
| 4 | I mean I do n't know whether she thought she could put them in the garden when she got to the new place and they 'd grow but |
| 5 | The first thing Carlie did when she got to the foster home was pull the plastic footrest up close to the TV : ‘ Do n't talk to me when ‘ Young and Restless ’ is on , ’ she warned the foster mother who was standing behind her . |
| 6 | As she got to the bottom Michele appeared in the hall , and said briefly , ‘ There 's nothing to be achieved by staying here , so I 've decided to get straight back . |
| 7 | When she got to the little clearing she halted , seeing Léonie there on her knees , looking up at the outcrop of rock . |
| 8 | She had recently been knitting double jacquard , but when she got to the very top of a sleeve , she had a little disaster and dropped the lot ! |
| 9 | When she got to the large graph that shows the state of the church-roof appeal , she stopped and looked down at the waiting crowds as if she was a victorious politician looking down on her compliant voters . |
| 10 | As she clung to the powerful width of his shoulders , trembling from head to foot with the force of her emotions , he grasped the softness of her buttocks and drove deeply , irrevocably into the silken white-hot sheath of her with a harsh , abrupt shout of victory , his lidded gaze brilliant with triumph … |
| 11 | She hopped to the open door to make sure her voice followed him . |
| 12 | She staggered to the heavy Victorian armchair against the wall outside Chief Inspector Martin 's office , Colonel Hoggatt 's chair . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , his presence gave Breeze an uncomfortable feeling , and she moved to the far end of the room so that she should not overhear what he was saying . |
| 14 | From socialist Sunday School she moved to the Independent Labour party , which she left in 1920 because she found it insufficiently radical , and joined instead the recently formed Communist party of Great Britain . |
| 15 | She had refused to have her husband cremated , not because she had anything so fanciful as a religious objection to cremation , but because she quite erroneously considered cremation to be a new-fangled idea , and she objected to the new . |
| 16 | So why on earth she objected to the brief and fairly innocuous cartoons which portrayed her as scantily clad in Tuesday 's Without Walls , is beyond me . |
| 17 | She referred to the bestial man who fathered her as ‘ him ’ and never ‘ father ’ . |
| 18 | Then she changed to the other leg . |
| 19 | How deeply she 'd slept she did n't appreciate until she woke to the remote hoot of river traffic , and the sound of a pigeon cooing rhythmically just outside the window . |
| 20 | ‘ Please do n't be out , ’ she murmured to the empty car as she drove along the quiet country roads . |
| 21 | She gestured to the sweeping prospects around them . |
| 22 | There was a slight pause , while she relished to the full her own desirability as a pupil . |
| 23 | As soon as she reached the open deer-park she ran , and she hardly paused until she came to the broad track that sloped down to the marsh , smiling and vivid green in the late afternoon sunshine . |
| 24 | I did n't realise , by the way , that Kathleen was a ‘ rebel ’ , but if so , — apart from Winnie perhaps — she came to the right house ( or House ) . |
| 25 | She came to the spare bedroom , the one she had spent that first unforgettable night in , and slipped inside . |
| 26 | The moment she came to the top step , she realised what the matter was . |
| 27 | Then she swam along the bank until she came to the old pontoon . |
| 28 | She ran along the line , stumbling over the planks , until she came to the old pit and the line of empty skips . |
| 29 | We felt sure she 'd be preyed on when she came to the big city . ’ |
| 30 | When she came to the yellow and blue ones , she did not need to count the beads on the teacher 's necklace , but simply picked up three together with one hand and threaded them . |