Example sentences of "she [verb] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was offered this amazing job in London , but I felt no , I 've got plenty of time , I 'd rather be with her until she goes to secondary school . |
| 2 | How could she explain to this man that she did n't even know their full names , let alone their addresses or telephone numbers ? |
| 3 | ‘ I see you got your hair cut by the scenic route , ’ she remarks to one gentleman who has neatly slicked a few strands over his bald patch . |
| 4 | So she agreed to that bargain , and for a few days more kept the secret to herself , still hopeful that she might be mistaken , and yet at the same time aware of a feeling of inner triumph at the knowledge that she had her very own baby growing inside her womb . |
| 5 | She agreed to one glass of the port , not because she was feeling at all drunk but because she knew that she ought to be . |
| 6 | In the end she resorted to feminine persuasion . |
| 7 | She succeeded to some extent when a most magnificent full-blossomed magnolia tree caught her eye . |
| 8 | She moved to one side and so did Naylor . |
| 9 | She moved to another part of the studio and started to turn over a number of stretched canvases , all of them blank . |
| 10 | She objected to this invasion of her personal space . |
| 11 | She referred to one pupil 's piece of writing which described what he thought he had learned in the first session with the advisory teacher : |
| 12 | She referred to previous Panel Hearings and Court Appeals in Kirkwall having been ‘ mobbed ’ by demonstrators . |
| 13 | The structure of the work takes the form of a dialogue between an ‘ autobiographizing ’ narrator persona and an interrogative voice which raises reservations about the validity of the whole enterprise : at various points throughout the text statements and versions of events are contradicted and contested , thus inscribing the anticipated response of the reader in a manner reminiscent of the technique she used to great effect in her previous book , L'Usage de la parole ( 1980 ) . |
| 14 | But when she came to one edge of the paving slabs … she tripped and fell ; and it was common ground that there was a difference in height between the concrete and the paving slab of an inch and a half … |
| 15 | As her father had so often complained , to engage with this task was to enter a labyrinth , and it seemed that whichever way she turned she came to this impasse . |
| 16 | Bypassing the entrance to the huge living-room , which looked dim and shadowy in the faint glow from the circular night-lights sunk into the wooden-slat ceiling , she followed the passageway until she came to another flight of steps , which obviously led down to the lowest level of the house . |
| 17 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 18 | Unlike Mr Spence she turned to creative writing later in life , after retiring from her job as a journalist on Chartered Surveyor magazine . |
| 19 | I do n't know how he found out that she belonged to that lass , but find out he has . |
| 20 | That she belonged to some time , when I was a little kid , that had somehow been barred from my memory . |
| 21 | She is as remote from me , as strange , as if she belonged to another time . |
| 22 | She belonged to another house , other people . |
| 23 | She slithered to one side of the bed , and he moved through the gilded air , angling his body down to hers . |
| 24 | She returned to another season at the Winter Gardens in 1925 . |
| 25 | Yes , it 's under , it 's under , but the one , I know , that she go to this place , ooh it 's a yucky place , I do n't know she went to . |
| 26 | Do n't know how many ti times a week , I meant to ask her does she go to that man now . |
| 27 | Rosa cast an eye at her mother 's frowning back where she attended to some task and tried to exchange a glance of impatience with Tommaso . |
| 28 | I said I do n't know boogie , boogie she dances to any music do n't she ? |
| 29 | Coun Shore 's maiden name was Mothersdill and she went to primary school at Corporation Road . |
| 30 | The first day she went to that school , I remember , we all followed her up the road to the bus-stop , laughing at her . |