Example sentences of "she [vb past] to [noun sg] " 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 | She whispered to Beuno that they must both be very boring now , very staid , because she utterly refused to amuse Dr Wyn . |
| 4 | 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 : |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She was thinking instead that once she got to university she would never need to see him again . |
| 7 | And she got to school |
| 8 | But what would happen once she got to Earth she had no idea . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | When they nagged her to let them go , she conveyed to Kit he should allow it . |
| 11 | ’ She bent to mouth into her sister 's ear . |
| 12 | All sorts of alarming sensations rioting in the pit of her stomach , she mumbled incoherently against his mouth as she tried to arch closer , only to be thwarted by the fork handle . |
| 13 | She tried to elbow her way closer to the front . |
| 14 | WORLD champion boxer Chris Eubank fought off Big Breakfast show presenter Paula Yates , above , when she tried to bed him for an interview on screen yesterday . |
| 15 | She tried to short-circuit the impact on her senses , but there was a blow like a mule-kick to her stomach and she gave an involuntary gasp . |
| 16 | Without even really thinking about it , she pretended to trip , staggered in her direction , deliberately lost her balance , and managed to lob the leprechaun into a clump of grass where the little girl would be able to find it easily . |
| 17 | She moved to area in 1975 , and her first job was at a primary school in Middlesbrough where she taught music . |
| 18 | Her short address was tinged with sadness when she referred to Christmas bringing ‘ its own painful stresses to so many people in need — the sick , the old , the handicapped and the homeless ’ . |
| 19 | That was what she used to rant about , Men . |
| 20 | After what seemed like only a doze she woke to daylight , the wind driving hail against the window with a force which threatened to break it . |
| 21 | In 1982 she transferred to Company Registration , Registrars Department where she was one of the founder members of the Savers Section . |
| 22 | ‘ And when she came to school for me … ’ |
| 23 | She came to awareness to find Benedict 's body heavy on hers , to hear his rasping breath harsh in her ears , and to feel his ragged heartbeat pounding against her own . |
| 24 | ‘ This is adequate — just , ’ he said , and she came to life . |
| 25 | The telephone rang a few minutes later , and she came to life as Roman 's deep voice answered her . |
| 26 | She came to life , put her arms round his neck , and stroked his hair . |
| 27 | The nearest she came to solitude was the interval that elapsed after she had forced herself to dial 999 on Maurice 's car telephone . |
| 28 | She came to value what she had learnt from her difficult childhood , and to let go of the past . |
| 29 | We know that she came to grief . |
| 30 | She said it was necessary to defrost it and turn it off before she came to hospital . |