Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why on earth should she want to tie herself to someone like that ? ’ |
| 2 | She agreed to accompany me to the building society the next day so that we could withdraw Charlie 's share of the money . |
| 3 | His thick blond hair , deep blue eyes and effortless charm had probably captivated the hearts of a host of women that evening , but as Becky assumed that every girl received exactly the same treatment , she avoided allowing herself to be flattered by him . |
| 4 | And my mum thinks a home she wants to take me to a psychiatrist or something . |
| 5 | She wants to send them to the same private boarding school as her other partially sighted son , but her local council has refused . |
| 6 | Does n't that sort of bring in to the country and she 's out in the country and she wants to show it to them that she she 's sort of she 's still fashionable . |
| 7 | She tried to give it to me |
| 8 | She tried to limit herself to the most important ones ( to nod ‘ yes ’ or shake her head ‘ no ’ , to point at an object her companion had failed to see ) , to use only gestures that did not pretend to be her original expression . |
| 9 | Sally-Ann , unlike Rosemary , finds it a struggle and bitterly hurtful to dredge up her dreadful past — like Rosemary she has believed herself to be a doormat in society ; like Rosemary she has not known a childhood . |
| 10 | She was always a busy , tidy little girl , going around the house at night making sure all the curtains were drawn and tucking up the zoo of small furry animals which crowded her bed — she has kept them to this day . |
| 11 | In my judgment she remains capable as she has demonstrated herself to be capable of renouncing the tenets of the faith to suit her own chosen way of life . |
| 12 | She sits and watches , and they do not even realize that she has provoked them to it . |
| 13 | I 've got this feeling that she has given it to Sophie |
| 14 | And she has assigned them to me . |
| 15 | ‘ She has proved herself to me a mere Jilt ’ , he told his diary . |
| 16 | For the past five years she has devoted herself to the United Nations Children 's Fund and became its ambassador in an effort to help the world 's sick and starving children . |
| 17 | Since he has offered her the role of Claudia Cohn-Casson , she has introduced him to journalists , script writers and directors . |
| 18 | But I have given her up , and in any case she has meant nothing to me for years . ’ |
| 19 | I gave it to Mrs Barrymore , and she promised to give it to him at once . ’ |
| 20 | She thought he must be disappointed that she was n't going home , and realised in dismay that she 'd wanted him to be glad to know she was staying . |
| 21 | I heard that she 'd followed you to Sydney . ’ |
| 22 | She 'd treated herself to the new dress , from the boutique recommended by Anneliese . |
| 23 | This was the man she 'd given herself to , willingly , wholeheartedly , by some mysterious process of transmutation from acute dislike to ardent desire , in the wild heat of last night … dislike and distrust had dissolved in the drugging excitement of his arms . |
| 24 | And once she 'd given herself to him , she 'd stay with him , one way or another . |
| 25 | The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person . |
| 26 | She 'd made it to her bedroom door before Guy 's voice called after her . |
| 27 | But , still the same , Fabia felt hot by the time she 'd made it to her room , so went and took a shower and changed her clothes and supposed , since it had to be lunchtime , that she should set about getting a snack of some sort . |
| 28 | But she 'd restricted herself to snapping , ‘ I 'll bear that in mind , ’ and abruptly ending the conversation . |
| 29 | Bertha had looked affronted as she 'd drawn herself to her full height . |
| 30 | When they emerged forty minutes later from the second-hand shop she 'd taken him to , he wore a tweed suit , laced boots , a heavy overcoat almost ankle-length , gloves and a trilby hat . |