Example sentences of "she [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you think he can do it ? ’ she whispered to Lavender . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's doing well , ’ she whispered to Lavender . |
| 3 | ‘ When I give the word , ’ she whispered to Molassi , ‘ grab him . ’ |
| 4 | She tugged at the sides of the hammock and hooked her head forward as she whispered to Ariel , who was standing away from her , the moss she had been using dripping water on to the dust . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's here , ’ she whispered to Scathach . |
| 6 | ‘ Knowing your father , ché , ’ she whispered to Ellie , ‘ perhaps it is a little more tactful . ’ |
| 7 | During the next fortnight , she divided her attentions equally between him and Dunbar , but , she whispered to Harry one evening in the back of the Bentley , she would much prefer to be with him and she was being nice to Pogo only because she did n't want to hurt his feelings . |
| 8 | ‘ I wish they could have left this alone till Christmas was over , ’ she whispered to Antony . |
| 9 | She whispered to Beuno that they must both be very boring now , very staid , because she utterly refused to amuse Dr Wyn . |
| 10 | ‘ I think I 'll take up teaching permanently , ’ she whispered to Bodie , who held her hand as he waited with her on the landing . |
| 11 | ‘ Who 's he ? ’ she whispered to Ricky . |
| 12 | But she smiled to herself , as she thought again of the handsome Spaniard with those black eyes full of a sense of fun and adventure , that mane of glossy hair falling over one eye — and his dark brown velvet voice , which had melted her heart a lot more than she admitted to Rosie . |
| 13 | As she revealed to writer Sherwood Anderson , she had made a conscious decision to limit the type of image she believed had been most susceptible to critical misreadings in 1923 : |
| 14 | Encouraged by Mr Lacey , her guarantor , who firmly believed that , young as she was , Vera would find a medical school to accept her , she applied to Kings College Hospital , the Royal Free Hospital and Glasgow Medical School . |
| 15 | She applied to Newcastle council for a grant as she was living in the Newcastle area . |
| 16 | In fact , in her uncomfortable lock-up , she managed to play the hostess to royalty , to HRH the Duke of Sussex , whom she entertained to dinner . |
| 17 | Others exist , not many from the Richmond period , one or two from visits she made to Brittany ; she had family there , as maybe you know . |
| 18 | In it , Elvis tells ‘ Dear Liz ’ how much he appreciates receiving her letters and looks forward to seeing her during a trip she planned to America in December . |
| 19 | She had n't known , when she agreed to Caro 's suggestion , that her friend lived on a narrow boat . |
| 20 | She was thinking instead that once she got to university she would never need to see him again . |
| 21 | The Queen beat me to it she got to Petra first ! |
| 22 | And she got to school |
| 23 | But when she got to Auckland , when she found herself alone with Damian for three days and three nights … what would she think of then ? |
| 24 | Still , she reached Bristol , and waited there for a ship , ‘ with plenteous tears and boisterous sobbings , with loud cryings and shrill shriekings ’ , and , although her fellow-voyagers threatened to throw her overboard , she got to Spain and back to Bristol in a month . |
| 25 | When Rose suggested that they write to Luke to ask him to meet Maggie off the train when she got to London Moran was furious . |
| 26 | If only she could jump on her back and not stop galloping until she got to Ricky and Palm Springs . |
| 27 | But what would happen once she got to Earth she had no idea . |
| 28 | But when she got to prison all her mates were telling her , ‘ No , no , you do n't talk to a prisoner like that , you talk to her sharp . ’ |
| 29 | Nenna had no more than an animal 's sense of direction and distance , but it seemed to her that the right thing to do would be to try to reach the City , then , once she got to Blackfriars , she knew where the river was , and though that would be Lambeth Reach or King 's Reach , a long way downstream of the boats , still , once she had got to the river she would be on the way home . |
| 30 | Then she rode to Scathach , who stood with his arms folded and his eyes narrowed , watching his sister . |