Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no gentleness like Lisa 's fierce love ; and she tried to respond to that while another darker voice called her to unconsciousness and silence . |
| 2 | She tried to count to ten , and tried even harder to remember what that astrologer had said to her , but had that astrologer really known what she was talking about anyway ? |
| 3 | First she stopped at the coffee house to see if all was ready , then she stopped to speak to one of the servants . |
| 4 | Adverbial clauses she subdivided according to functional relationship ( time and causal , for instance ) — the categories will be familiar to anyone nurtured in the traditional approach to clause analysis ! |
| 5 | ‘ That was why I wanted to speak to you — to find out , if during your time together , she 'd managed to corrupt you . ’ |
| 6 | When she 'd been doing her research for this article she 'd talked to various other people in the City regarding Laura Wyndham 's expertise in her job , and they had all agreed on one thing — she was at the very top of her profession . |
| 7 | It was the blue-eyed blonde , the one that she 'd spoken to earlier . |
| 8 | Then she turned to speak to all the eagles there , for most were listening in silence to her except those , and there were some , who had been so long in the Cages or so affected by them that they showed interest in nothing but food , their spirit killed by imprisonment . |
| 9 | She lay listening to these signs of a weather change and wondered whether Tristram had decided not to come after all . |
| 10 | If , on the other hand , it never occurred to the defendant that the victim was young or mentally abnormal , and he was not aware therefore that he was in a situation of potential risk , he should not be liable for rape providing that he took reasonable steps to ascertain that she did agree to vaginal penetration , for in such a case his conduct is reasonable in the light of the facts as he perceived them to be . |
| 11 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |
| 12 | She had been brought up in the sophistication of inner Moscow , and she had travelled to European Germany . |
| 13 | But then she reminded herself of the promise she had made to another whom she loved . |
| 14 | The wife stated that she had succumbed to undue pressure from her husband to sign the documents and that he had misrepresented their effect , in that she had believed that the security was limited to £60,000 and would last for only three weeks . |
| 15 | She had presented to another hospital two years previously with abdominal pain , weight loss , diarrhoea , and anaemia , when a diagnosis of Crohn 's disease was made . |
| 16 | Leith swallowed hard , and knew , before the weakness of loving him , the weakness of wanting him battered down the rest of her defences , small though those defences were , that she had to appeal to that in him which she somehow knew would make him hate himself if he took her . |
| 17 | As chairman of an access group representing the disabled in the town , she said she had written to two leading Labour councillors asking the Labour group to reject the recommendations . |
| 18 | A man has been jailed for life for strangling his estranged wife , after finding a love letter she had written to another man . |
| 19 | Since the marks on Mary 's body were not necessarily inconsistent with Thornton 's claim that she had consented to sexual intercourse , and since the times on the morning in question when Thornton was seen walking home to Bromwich suggested he could not have been with her when she met her death , the jury found him not guilty . |
| 20 | The moment she had settled to this , Peter was given his first parish , a little parish in a country town to the south of Bristol . |
| 21 | By the following morning she had recovered to some extent from the unusual happenings in her normally well ordered life . |
| 22 | The shape of the parcel she put on Michael 's make-up table showed that , for him at least , she had graduated to full-size bottles of champagne . |
| 23 | Somewhere between the time when they had fallen into an exhausted sleep and when she had woken to this grey dawn , all the joy and magic of what they had shared had faded , and she had been overcome by doubts . |
| 24 | Instead , she had toadied to these ghastly , grasping women in glittering hats , women who themselves seemed to have forgotten that they had husbands and families . |
| 25 | She had agreed to that and named her fee . |
| 26 | She had agreed to this dinner to try to find out the truth , and she must n't allow the attraction she felt for him to cloud that . |
| 27 | She is also a great letter-writer , a hangover no doubt from years at boarding school , where she had to write to both parents every week . |
| 28 | In death , she had returned to that and returned his desire . |
| 29 | When the development officer realised ‘ that she had got to such a low ebb ’ she put in a paid worker for a regular two hours per week . |
| 30 | She had , she had got to ten and as soon as she got eleven , mam I 've got eleven |