Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is this him ? ’ she asked pointing to a sober gentleman in a bowler hat and pin-stripes coming towards us . |
| 2 | Making matters worse there were slip ups too when she tried miming to a backing tape . |
| 3 | His wife Margaret had n't been there ; she 'd gone to a meeting of her rock garden club . |
| 4 | It had been styled rather well , as though she 'd gone to a really good hairdresser and it suited her , was soft over her forehead and short at the back . |
| 5 | She began to wave to a seat , but stopped herself — she realised it must look grimy to them as well . |
| 6 | ‘ She decided to go to a hotel — a grand one — and meet a man . |
| 7 | This arrangement left Hortense with the responsibility of her younger son 's education , which she decided to entrust to a private tutor . |
| 8 | She needed to come to a decision quickly . |
| 9 | Kicking and bucking to keep her balance , she managed to draw to a shuddering halt close to the rushing torrent about ten feet below where he was standing . |
| 10 | In 1977 she elected to go to a nursing home in Regent 's Park where she was treated by Dr Maurice Lipsedge , a psychiatrist who , by pure coincidence , cared for Diana a decade later when she resolved to fight her bulimia . |
| 11 | She did belong to a group in the University dedicated to helping ethnic minorities . |
| 12 | Breathless , she slowed to a walk through the lemon groves near the complex , and by the time she reached Monte Samana she had slowed to a snail 's pace . |
| 13 | So she had jumped to a few incorrect conclusions about Piers . |
| 14 | Aszal refused to leave her until , he says , at 1 a.m. they were told that she had to go to a detention centre where men were not allowed . |
| 15 | But she heard herself saying , still in shrewish style , that on the contrary there was n't any time in the morning , that she had to go to a psychoanalytical conference in the Metropole Hotel with a bunch of Japanese in the morning , that she wanted to talk now , that he could n't just announce that he wanted to get divorced and then decide he was too tired to talk about it . |
| 16 | After leaving the letter in a drawer she had gone to a nearby town and booked in at a hotel . |
| 17 | His mother was not yet in ; presumably she had gone to a party . |
| 18 | She had gone to a convalescent home in Bournemouth . |
| 19 | However , on the advice of an acquaintance , she had gone to a clinic in Pennsylvania : she retired there periodically now . |
| 20 | Even so , she had to admit to a sneaking sense of relief when Luke left the office just after twelve for a business luncheon ; despite her defiance , she preferred that he did n't see her cross the road to the wine bar at one o'clock . |
| 21 | They stopped at a small bar where everybody spoke Irish , which made Jessica feel very odd , as if she had wandered to a very foreign country , then drove out along the switchback road laid on the bog , through soil so thin and bitter that the white stone bones of Ireland protruded everywhere , mocking the tiny ancient farmsteads where generations had failed even to subsist . |
| 22 | She had to get to a chair otherwise she would collapse on to the floor . |
| 23 | She ‘ knew ’ that ‘ she had come to a place at the end of the world ’ , a backwater where there was no action at all . |
| 24 | But today she had come to a decision , she would tell Craig Grenfell to leave her house , his presence was beginning to disturb her , disrupt her life . |
| 25 | If she had come to a pitiful and desperate end , this woman for one would not be sorry . |
| 26 | School had been tiring at first on transfer but she had soon got used to it : originally she had belonged to a number of clubs in the early day ( Thursday ) when all such activities take place , but now preferred to go home early . |
| 27 | Once she had listened to a Christmas service out of curiosity . |
| 28 | Earlier , she had listened to a statement by Lt Col Bob Stewart , the Cheshires ' CO , in which he said that the sniper had not been traced . |
| 29 | She was wrong about Dunvegan being unsuitable for gardening — she wanted to move to a less rocky place : today it blooms and blows . |
| 30 | I mean the other week she wanted to go to a school disco and I said look hang on n get your priorities right . |