Example sentences of "she [vb mod] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wrote back and said no way did I think that she ought to go into the unit . |
| 2 | But she ought to apply for a Pony Club polo scholarship . ’ |
| 3 | She used to squeeze through the fence and bring me her bones . |
| 4 | That was when she used to live in the TASS building on Tverskoy Boulevard . |
| 5 | But the , the lady who was erm what 's her name daughter , she used to live in the erm erm live in the terraced house erm |
| 6 | Er I think she used to sing with a group and I think she 's gone on her own and I do n't know which one to go for . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's your picture , Jake , ’ she used to say over the laddie 's cot , laughing like a witch ; and I could 've killed her for it . ’ |
| 8 | The automatic clothes dryer does not save a woman the four or five hours a week she used to spend at the clothes line , if , for instance , she runs her washing machine and dryer every day … |
| 9 | . And she was crippled with rheumatism — she used to go with a stick , and she was the boss . |
| 10 | And she used to go with the district nurses a lot to er to treat different people specially a long time I remember erm a young man erm h he had er I think it was cerebral palsy he had and er he was so fed up with himself he threw paraffin over himself and er set light you know on the top of the stairs and threw himself down . |
| 11 | she used to go to an old person 's home of a night time you know |
| 12 | She used to go to the butchers and get breast of lamb , scrag-end , sheep 's head , pig 's head . |
| 13 | She pointed beyond a wooden pier to the place where she used to sit on a crate beside her father as he fished through the ice . |
| 14 | St Richards was fun and strict , with not enough to eat and high academic standards ; I developed a crush on the assistant matron who had a phenomenally large chest ; I liked her because she used to sit on the ends of our beds and talk to us before we went to sleep . |
| 15 | Most remarkably , she used to talk to the girl about her grandfather 's dying : |
| 16 | Well yes , but I mean it 's she seems to do the opposite thing to Charlotte , cos she used to sleep in the morning and fidget around in the afternoons and this one fidgets all morning and then sleeps in the afternoon . |
| 17 | She used to walk past the rows of admiring pupils towards the young vicar , smiling openly at him . |
| 18 | She was not going to dig up ancient grievances or remind Gloria of days gone by , when she used to come into the Watermen with half a dozen different gentlemen-friends in tow or , which was even worse , unaccompanied and on the look-out for a lonely man who might take a fancy to her . |
| 19 | Did she used to come to the housing , to the meetings ? |
| 20 | Not a battleaxe exactly but I hear she used to stomp around the place in clogs and speak her mind without fear or hesitation . |
| 21 | There was one girl called Clara whom she used to meet in the lower corridor an hour before classes began : they had long discussions about Tolstoy , Maeterlinck and Ibsen , and were suspected of immorality . |
| 22 | actually it was erm I forget what it was when me mother-in-law died and she used to moan about the shop and I said to Christine the time she goes down and back I mean things are dear in , but some of the things in the shop now , and then , are cheaper than down the town , so if you take your , your bus |
| 23 | Dorothea was there and the person she used to bring as a partner for Faith 's bridge games when I could not play . |
| 24 | when it was when I had that little Renault Five because erm , she used to she used to get under the bonnet did n't she ? |
| 25 | Georgia was looking at the bracelet the same way she used to look at the hill when she was five , she was in awe of it , it might be too strong for her . |
| 26 | Where had the long silences gone , Molly wondered , into which she used to retreat in the company of her parents ? |
| 27 | She showed them the small lake in its ring of reeds , took them to the first slopes of the mountain , rigged up a fishing rod for Michael and took him to the part of the lake she used to fish as a girl , and soon he was shouting out in glee as he missed the ravenous little perch or swung them out over his head on to the bank . |
| 28 | Oh yes , yes she does , but , that 's about all she 's got two cousins , that 's right , and one of them 's married and got children and she used to have in the north , the great friend Sylvia from school days and Sylvia would of been one of the first Anglican Deacons to be ordained as a , as a priest |
| 29 | And she used to work for the TSB bank . ’ |
| 30 | Yeah , well she used to work at the station in the offices . |