Example sentences of "she [verb] [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 58 ) Mrs Thatcher realizes that there is a great deal to be done before she dares launch an all-out offensive in the House of Commons . |
| 2 | But did she dare impersonate a journalist ? |
| 3 | When I did the first two talks , Dawn was n't trained enough to fly , though on the second she did manage a short hop , but by the time this big lecture came along she was flying on the creance . |
| 4 | While England sent no revivalist as famous as Moody she did send a number of famous ministers and the works of her most famous preachers were avidly bought and consumed in America . |
| 5 | She did her best to try and in to make things a little bit more er interesting and she did start a tennis club up , which was nice because there was nothing at all before then . |
| 6 | If she did sense an added aura of poignancy it was probably because in less than two weeks Tivoli would close its turnstiles and remain dormant until its spring awakening at the end of the following April . |
| 7 | Morag French , 27 , is more optimistic about a job , although she did experience a few brief spells of unemployment before entering the hostel a year and a half ago . |
| 8 | She did cry a little , almost soundlessly , and was furious with herself for doing so , her tears mingling with the spray of the shower . |
| 9 | But her ear plugs were not impregnable and — the music having stopped at last — she did hear a tap on the door . |
| 10 | But she did ask a question , she was the first question that was asked , the one about erm |
| 11 | This time she did get a response . |
| 12 | She did get a few out of one bag and a few out of another . |
| 13 | No , she did not own a car — could not afford to — but she did have a driving licence . |
| 14 | Despite her irritating affectations , she did have a genuine flair for divining quality in both literature and the visual arts . |
| 15 | However , there is one other thing that we know about Elsie for sure : she did have a club foot . |
| 16 | The publication of de Beauvoir 's letters to Sartre has revealed that , contrary to her repeated denials , she did have a number of sexual relationships with women . |
| 17 | For example , you could discover whether the employee 's watch was faulty , or whether she did have a regular hair appointment on Friday . |
| 18 | She did have a job with the BBC and someone cared for the child in the day . |
| 19 | She had never regarded herself as a very organised person , and did n't even consider she had a routine ; but when George retired , realised that she did have a kind of pattern . |
| 20 | I could see he thought it was serious , that she did have a case . |
| 21 | Bunny says she 's quite an asset , even if she did have a disturbed schooling . ’ |
| 22 | Ma is thin and she 's not all that strong , but she did have a go , persevering even after it mowed down most of her prize herb bed . |
| 23 | She wished she could lay claim to a migraine but knew that Betty would not let her , that anyway even she could not be so mannerless as to absent herself from her own picnic , and that even if she did have a blinding migraine she would still have to go . |
| 24 | It was true : she did have a reputation for good housekeeping . |
| 25 | She did have a crush on Dr Russell , of course . |
| 26 | Fen was right — she did have a temper to match her hair . |
| 27 | Because she did have a hard life . |
| 28 | And she did have a responsibility to her students . |
| 29 | She did have a mother . |
| 30 | She did have a thousand and one things to do , though there was n't a single one of them that could n't have waited . |