Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the third floor , she led him to one of four doors , which opened on to a firelit bedroom , with a great canopied bed , steaming water-jugs and wash-basin , and a garderobe in the thickness of the walling with candle-shelf , stone seat and chute . |
| 2 | Lady Pomfret had been an excellent wife and mother and an efficient Lady of the Bedchamber , but she exposed herself to constant ridicule in society because she was so desperate to be thought of as a learned woman . |
| 3 | Getting ready helped to restore her calm and , in any case , she felt she owed it to Marguerite to make some effort on this first evening at her house . |
| 4 | I asked Ivy if she owed anything to Greek tragedy . |
| 5 | He rammed his stiffened baton in and out of her burrow , and all the time she urged him to greater efforts . |
| 6 | Somehow , and from somewhere , a beautiful young woman appeared — this was no imagined vision — and she took them to some hot springs where they all ended up naked . |
| 7 | Before they left , she took me to one side . |
| 8 | She sent me to that convent , thinkin' she would make something o' me . ' |
| 9 | On 2 March , she improved it to 7.68 and , two days later , broke it twice in a day in Seville — 7.66 and 7.63 . |
| 10 | She put it to one side , and opened the folder of photographs . |
| 11 | Evette , she brought er a green thing A round thing and she gave it to one of the ladies , I can not remember which one . |
| 12 | She said nothing to that . |
| 13 | She said nothing to this but continued to stand in the doorway . |
| 14 | The wind was behind her now , blowing her hair forward , so that she could not see properly unless she pushed it to one side . |