Example sentences of "she [vb past] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he pulled himself together he rang Rachel , in search of that mixture of common sense and warmth that she applied to all emotional crises . |
| 2 | Presumably , since it is said that she lived to 127 , her sixties would be equivalent to our thirties or forties . |
| 3 | My goodness , what a commotion it would cause if she announced to all these posh people that James Halden had once seduced her . |
| 4 | So she agreed to that bargain , and for a few days more kept the secret to herself , still hopeful that she might be mistaken , and yet at the same time aware of a feeling of inner triumph at the knowledge that she had her very own baby growing inside her womb . |
| 5 | She agreed to one glass of the port , not because she was feeling at all drunk but because she knew that she ought to be . |
| 6 | She agreed to this . |
| 7 | cos she got to three thousand or summat |
| 8 | It was impossible to get away from him , though , so in desperation she resorted to other tactics . |
| 9 | In the end she resorted to feminine persuasion . |
| 10 | With sadly impaired health and frustrated by Rossetti 's reluctance to commit himself to marriage , and his too apt inclination to infidelity , she resorted to ever-increasing doses of laudanum . |
| 11 | She succeeded to some extent when a most magnificent full-blossomed magnolia tree caught her eye . |
| 12 | She moved to one side and so did Naylor . |
| 13 | She moved to another part of the studio and started to turn over a number of stretched canvases , all of them blank . |
| 14 | She objected to this invasion of her personal space . |
| 15 | She referred to one pupil 's piece of writing which described what he thought he had learned in the first session with the advisory teacher : |
| 16 | But the address underlines the anguish of Her Majesty 's speech after the Windsor Castle fire when she referred to 1992 as her ‘ annus horribilis ’ . |
| 17 | The former Head Wrightson site , now renamed Teesdale , is famous as the venue for Margaret Thatcher 's so-called walk in the wilderness on the day she referred to those who complained about high unemployment as ‘ moaning minnies ’ . |
| 18 | She referred to some applications in London with which she is especially preoccupied . |
| 19 | She referred to previous Panel Hearings and Court Appeals in Kirkwall having been ‘ mobbed ’ by demonstrators . |
| 20 | The structure of the work takes the form of a dialogue between an ‘ autobiographizing ’ narrator persona and an interrogative voice which raises reservations about the validity of the whole enterprise : at various points throughout the text statements and versions of events are contradicted and contested , thus inscribing the anticipated response of the reader in a manner reminiscent of the technique she used to great effect in her previous book , L'Usage de la parole ( 1980 ) . |
| 21 | Reacting to him physically , just as she used to all those years ago . |
| 22 | Oh , yes , , I 've got a supervisor at , who talks , she used to forty cases , and now she does sixty , seventy cases , excellent . |
| 23 | It was , it was bad that she used to those draws that bad that after so long you 'd see him go all white and then you 'd gradually see round the crutch then so , more |
| 24 | Interestingly , she added to that : ‘ Every shot was like a first night . ’ |
| 25 | She added to this her view of heaven . |
| 26 | When she turned from painting to writing , she added to these gifts and to this training , two principles which might well be carved above the entrance door of every School of Journalism . |
| 27 | He used to bring me flowers , but as you can see ’ — she gestured to some carnations on the table — ‘ that 's always happening . |
| 28 | During the weekend she drove to nearby Cowdray Park to watch the Prince play polo for his team , Les Diables Bleus . |
| 29 | She came to Gentle 's aid as soon as he appeared , the exchange between them short and functional : was he badly hurt ? |
| 30 | She came to one of our mission hospitals when I was training in Australia . ’ |