Example sentences of "she [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She tried to remember some poetry , any poetry about prisons . |
| 32 | She tried to remember some of her stories and put those in the Diary too . |
| 33 | She tried to superimpose this place on Amelia Dorf 's house , but could not make the images jibe . |
| 34 | I just hoped Karen would n't go any further , that she would n't get so drunk that she tried to mount some leering admirer who happened to step on her toe by mistake . |
| 35 | He had probably come to the same conclusion and if she tried to give some kind of explanation he would raise his eyebrows and look at her in astonishment , and she would feel utterly foolish . |
| 36 | She counted to ten as she had been taught when about to deliver a big speech , but when she tried to force some words of outrage from between her teeth her tongue clove to the roof of her mouth and the most she could do was make a small cry of protest deep in her throat . |
| 37 | She tried to imagine such a life for herself , but could not . |
| 38 | She was only in college the one year , less than a year if you — we just wondered if she tried to buy some here , that 's all , and that could be how she might have met the wrong kind of people . |
| 39 | She closed her eyes , leaning back against her remaining pillow as she tried to recall that aspect of her childhood . |
| 40 | As Ariel 's voice reached through the darkness that had walled up Sycorax in pain , she tried to recall some of the things she had once known ; she murmured and found that when she did so Ariel stopped singing , so she tried not to remember out loud , but to save the retrieved pieces inside her so that the low , scraping voice of the girl she loved would not be interrupted . |
| 41 | From there she hopped to the pond at the back of the school , for she felt sure that she could hide safely there in the weeds and rushes while she tried to find some solution to her appalling problem . |
| 42 | She could not tell the human who she was , but she remembered the feeling of affinity ; she tried to indicate that affinity , a finger pointed to holly and to human flesh , but the blank look remained in that fur-wrapped , pale-faced Tallis . |
| 43 | She tried to relate this sudden vision of the things of the pieties of the Dodson sisters to Daniel 's Mum 's instructions about how to cook Christmas pudding , and largely failed . |
| 44 | Folly just stared , her mind spinning as she tried to fit these new facts into perspective . |
| 45 | Now , this contribution is not direct , it 's indirect in the sense that males , a male for example who is provisioning a wife who is pregnant is not directly invent investing in the offspring clearly you ca n't do that she has to do that , cos the offspring 's inside her body , but indirectly he may be feeding his wife , protecting her and providing for her in , in a way that is absolutely critical to her reproductive success too . |
| 46 | I was gon na ask is you know that he ha she has to do all these long hours . |
| 47 | there 's hardly enough for two in and then she has to do another two only , only she ca n't pour it in after it 's . |
| 48 | While Robyn is getting up , and getting ready for the day , thinking mostly about the nineteenth-century industrial novels on which she has to lecture this morning , I will tell you about Charles , and other salient facts of her biography . |
| 49 | I wonder if she has yet worked out that for every douse she has to pull less load ; probably not , or she would be pissing on the wood . |
| 50 | So she has to find another way of providing music for the midnight service . |
| 51 | ‘ She was running around at 10 months and she loves to sing all day long . |
| 52 | She promised to make all the arrangements , including the hiring of as many buses as she could find . |
| 53 | Firstly , she needs to carry some weight to maintain her power . |
| 54 | Will she need to have any adaptations made if she is infirm , or special aids installed ? |
| 55 | What had she done to deserve such punishment ? |
| 56 | But the language she uses to describe this process demonstrates her parodic attitude toward it . |
| 57 | I thought what now what did she do to deserve that ? |
| 58 | But typically she refuses to do this , writhing on the ground and inviting more and more matings until her period of heat has passed . |
| 59 | She refuses to undergo any medical checks because she ‘ has no need of further proof ’ . |
| 60 | She also received a rose arbour for her garden where she plans to spend more time in her retirement . |