Example sentences of "she [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She coldly snubbed the Duke and Duchess of Windsor for years , and it was revealed recently that she failed to visit two cousins who had been committed to mental institutions . |
2 | ‘ If the creditor takes adequate steps to inform her and reasonably supposes that she has an adequate comprehension of the obligations she is undertaking and an understanding of the effect of the transaction , the fact that she failed to grasp some material part of the document , or , indeed , the significance of what she was doing , can not , I think , in itself give her an equity to set aside , notwithstanding that at an earlier stage the creditor relied upon her husband to obtain her consent to enter into the obligation of surety . |
3 | There were reports that senior ministers were insisting that if she failed to secure outright victory , she should consult them before deciding to carry on . |
4 | Christie herself confessed she expected to get 10 years . |
5 | But when they discovered she planned to marry fellow student Willie Armour , they gave the prize to a young man in the year below . |
6 | The Prime Minister herself had reaffirmed her commitment to the " founding principles " of the service in her speech to the Conservative Party Conference in 1982 as she sought to allay public suspicion that the health service might not be safe in her hands . |
7 | Would she want to tell those people outside anything different about the situation in South Africa now ? |
8 | She agreed to attend this club the next week with her friend . |
9 | She agreed to undergo corrective surgery but the result disabled her further . |
10 | He was the enemy , and at least this way she got to score some points ! |
11 | She asked to borrow some shears . |
12 | She bent to knock some snow from her bindings . |
13 | ‘ A woman sees the home as her base and she dresses to complement that environment almost as part of the decoration . |
14 | Now claiming dole with her husband Max , she wants to see massive investment in major community projects , such as hospital and school building and road improvements throughout the country . |
15 | I hate going shopping with them , she wants to go next Saturday , I said fuck that . |
16 | Kim , who is continuing on the diet as she wants to shed another couple of stone , has always had loads of personality but , as her weight has reduced , an even more bubbly girl has emerged . |
17 | With senior cabinet colleagues making discreetly plain their desire to enter the ERM as soon as practicable , the Prime Minister ceased to give the impression that she wants to add further conditions to those announced at the Madrid summit in June . |
18 | She got herself a job in Reading college , she got somebody to take her down there and a place to get an English A Level , and Mary said it 's a thing with her she wants to get this English A Level cos her father had one and she feels that is she could get and English A Level it would impress him , he , she spends her life trying to impress her father who does n't really takes much notice of her , . |
19 | she wants to get some money |
20 | But if she wants to attract new audiences this will not be achieved without a change of programming . |
21 | Between these two poles of urban progressive Gujerati families and Muslim peasant families fall the majority of situations , where the parents do not show much interest in their daughter 's school life and try and restrict her if she wants to enter higher education . |
22 | Usually she tried to evade such duties , by hanging around in the bathroom or in her bedroom ; she loathed the tedious , repetitive business of the house . |
23 | The stench of damp that enveloped her was noxious ; she tried to take short breaths . |
24 | That was how she saw things , and although she tried to foresee other ways in which events might turn out , she could not imagine any future that did not include Tristram . |
25 | She tried to remember some poetry , any poetry about prisons . |
26 | She tried to superimpose this place on Amelia Dorf 's house , but could not make the images jibe . |
27 | He had probably come to the same conclusion and if she tried to give some kind of explanation he would raise his eyebrows and look at her in astonishment , and she would feel utterly foolish . |
28 | She counted to ten as she had been taught when about to deliver a big speech , but when she tried to force some words of outrage from between her teeth her tongue clove to the roof of her mouth and the most she could do was make a small cry of protest deep in her throat . |
29 | To that end , she tried to keep alive Cissie 's love for her brother , although it was proving more and more difficult as the girl frequently pointed out , ‘ He ai n't the same , Beth . |
30 | She closed her eyes , leaning back against her remaining pillow as she tried to recall that aspect of her childhood . |