Example sentences of "she [vb past] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you please be my friend ? ’ she whispered to the robin . |
| 2 | ‘ Sweet heaven , ’ she whispered to the empty car , ‘ please let me reach the main road safely . |
| 3 | She read to the end . |
| 4 | The youngster was living with her former foster parents when she applied to the courts for the divorce . |
| 5 | There was an evening to pass before the midnight flight to London and , despite Tucker 's adamancy that Miss Kennedy would n't see her , she taxied to the Big Bamboo on Wulff Road . |
| 6 | She blabbed to the Press and they hounded me until I left the country . |
| 7 | ‘ Back to Milan , ’ she snapped as she stalked to the door . |
| 8 | ( The fertility rate is the average number of children a woman would have if she lived to the end of her child-bearing years and bore children at the prevailing rate for each age during that period . ) |
| 9 | He made a few gamey remarks to his first Hollywood leading lady , Olivia de Havilland , and she announced to the world that he was ‘ a coarse-grained man with a coarse-grained charm and a talent not completely developed ’ . |
| 10 | The episode raises the question of whether she actually knew who Mapplethorpe was when she agreed to the V&A being used for an Aids fund-raising event , at which there was to be a slide show of the photographs in the book . |
| 11 | She agreed to the meeting . |
| 12 | Contacted initially by Metzenbaum 's staff on Sept. 4 , Hill at first wanted to provide evidence anonymously , but on Sept. 21 she agreed to the suggestion of judiciary committee chairman Joseph Biden , Democratic senator for Delaware , that she provide a sworn affidavit to the Federal Bureau of Investigation which would examine her case . |
| 13 | Nevertheless she agreed to the luxury of a lie-in the following Sunday morning , even allowing her sister to fuss over her a little . |
| 14 | She crept to the door . |
| 15 | Slipping into her silk bathrobe , she crept to the door and listened . |
| 16 | ‘ Come , come , my beauty , ’ she cooed to the bird . |
| 17 | If she stopped to explain , Keith would be gone before she got to the telephone-box . |
| 18 | When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on . |
| 19 | She had no idea afterwards how she got to the Villa Alberti where Ferdinando took her to break the news and tell the tale of his fruitless trip . |
| 20 | She got to the bus station , stood up straight and went out to the ticket counter . |
| 21 | The first thing Carlie did when she got to the foster home was pull the plastic footrest up close to the TV : ‘ Do n't talk to me when ‘ Young and Restless ’ is on , ’ she warned the foster mother who was standing behind her . |
| 22 | Nutty rode on hopefully , but when she got to the gate Mrs Smith was backing out in a large yellow Range Rover and glared at having to give way to a mere equestrian . |
| 23 | When she got to the hospital , they gave her an appointment to see a gynaecologist in six weeks time . |
| 24 | At the start she would rehearse arranging them with the nun so that she would do it well when she got to the Hogans , but as the weeks went by she grew in confidence . |
| 25 | She had recently been knitting double jacquard , but when she got to the very top of a sleeve , she had a little disaster and dropped the lot ! |
| 26 | By the time she got to the motel , it was daylight . |
| 27 | The town was just coming alive , as she got to the Silver Shuriken . |
| 28 | She got to the command ve-hickle , and spread herself against its treads , firing across the square at some stray killers . |
| 29 | The lights changed as she got to the kerb . |
| 30 | She bravely did her best to ignore it when she got to the studio and was quite successful in separating her professional and eventful private life . |