Example sentences of "she [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michelle is obviously a sunlust person in that respect and depending on whether she goes to a main package resort in Spain or perhaps a beach in India , she can either be a psychocentric sunlust person or an alocentric sunlust person . |
| 2 | as if to make up for the early deaths of her sisters , she lived to a ripe old age , dying in the Almshouses at Dorking on 4 November 1855 , aged eighty-seven . |
| 3 | Later she moved to a proper — and vast — gallery on West Broadway . |
| 4 | When she moved to a secretarial college , we wrote daily . |
| 5 | She gestured to a half-open door beyond him . |
| 6 | ‘ Rory , ’ she says to an elderly man sitting to my right , ‘ give the girl a chair now , wo n't you ! ’ |
| 7 | But her parents moved to the United States , she transferred to an American university , and after a while stopped answering his letters . |
| 8 | In Newcastle she came to a self-service cafeteria and , with a cup of tea in her hand , went to an empty table . |
| 9 | Suddenly recalling some of her brother 's youthful enthusiasms , she came to a lame halt . |
| 10 | She came to a skidding stop in front of Guido and Ronni , her lovely bright-eyed face breaking into a huge smile . |
| 11 | She came to a familiar boulder ; it had fallen where the river met the hollow that over the years had become the pond . |
| 12 | When she walked into the kitchen she came to a shocked halt . |
| 13 | Walking despondently upstairs , and into Mrs McMahon 's bedroom to leave the outfit , she came to a shocked halt . |
| 14 | A little farther on she came to a small white cottage , in the porch of which stood a nutcrackery old woman whom Breeze mentally dubbed the Witch of Endor . |
| 15 | All went well until she came to a small boy in the second row . |
| 16 | And then she came to a small rise in the land and there was a man , his head under his arm . |
| 17 | Jessamy was halfway to the drawing-room at the back of the house , where she kept her drawing materials , when she came to a sudden halt . |
| 18 | She came to a full stop , quite overcome , quite unable to continue such a pedestrian account . |
| 19 | She began to walk through the wood , and after a while she came to a little house . |
| 20 | She came to a little patch of sand , the bottom of a miniature canyon , and on the far side of it there was a smooth grey rock , sliced neatly off at the top to make a platform . |
| 21 | But at last she came to a painful decision . |
| 22 | A stitch seared her side and she came to a stumbling halt , pressing her palms to the painful place , waiting until the sharp sting had eased a little . |
| 23 | She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot . |
| 24 | She came to a wealthier part of the town where the streets were quieter , and before long she had reached her destination . |
| 25 | Meryl tucked the papers under her arm and decided to walk around the boundary until she came to an alternative entrance . |
| 26 | Vitor supplied , when she came to an awkward halt . |
| 27 | She came to an abrupt halt , stooped and sniffed , wrinkling her nose at the odour of whisky . |
| 28 | She began to walk forward rapidly , but a couple of minutes later she came to an abrupt stop . |
| 29 | In the main cabin she came to an abrupt halt , feeling distinctly foolish . |
| 30 | She dropped to a cautious crouch . |