Example sentences of "she [verb] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A woman sees the home as her base and she dresses to complement that environment almost as part of the decoration . |
| 2 | She phoned to say that , having only just returned from Chester , it would be around nine before she could get over with it , and would that be all right ? |
| 3 | She wants to change that . |
| 4 | She closed her eyes , leaning back against her remaining pillow as she tried to recall that aspect of her childhood . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I thought what now what did she do to deserve that ? |
| 8 | God knows why , but she seemed to associate that with pleasure . ’ |
| 9 | Would she dare to challenge that tight-jawed efficiency with a declaration of passion ? |
| 10 | She returned to her room , giving herself a talking to along the lines of , what else had she got to do that day anyhow ? |
| 11 | Tea , too — that was what she wanted now , a good cup , and where was she going to get that ? |
| 12 | I mean where is she going to get that money ? |
| 13 | Now how in creation was she going to find that sort of money ? |
| 14 | Only out on the water with Pedro panting in the prow had she dared to admit that for the first time in her life she had felt herself a prisoner at the Hall . |
| 15 | From that time on , she began to avoid that gesture ( it is not easy to break the habit of gestures altogether ) . |
| 16 | Everything in Fabia cried out as she started to panic that Ven might yet hit on the truth of her love for him . |
| 17 | We invited Debbie to join us but she 'd had an invitation from a girlfriend to spend Christmas in Norway and she decided to take that invitation up . |
| 18 | Now why did she have to blab that piece of information ? she wondered , becoming thoroughly irritated with herself . |
| 19 | ( She always used to , of course , when I was n't here , but she seems to forget that . |
| 20 | But she went to see that . |
| 21 | She liked to do that . |
| 22 | She liked to do that . |
| 23 | While we were bad off she had to take that job , my eldest daughter . |
| 24 | Now she had to let that night , her feelings , her certainties about his feelings , her inflamed stirrings of the senses — all be lapped away . |
| 25 | crown dropped off so she had to put that back on , she never put , I had to get erm have another fitting for it , because she said the purpose of pins in her teeth in the tooth to try and get the crown to sit on , on the pins , erm |
| 26 | Making herself examine this thought , slowly and properly turning it around in her mind , recreating the scene which she could see so vividly of Jasper and Bert with the two I.R.A. , she had to admit that Jasper and Bert had made a bad impression . |
| 27 | The audience nodded , and Liz from the doorway nodded , for she had to admit that for the moment at least everything looked under control : pretty parsley-sprigged snacks awaited distribution , bottles of wine stood in attentive ranks , glasses were lined up , wiped and polished , piles of white napkins lay neatly folded in readiness . |
| 28 | All the same , now she was older she had to admit that what he 'd done was n't so very terrible ; she 'd just reacted in an over-sensitive manner . |
| 29 | But she had to admit that , realistically , he probably meant that she annoyed him beyond measure and that he was hard put to it to treat her civilly . |
| 30 | And even she had to admit that what she 'd seen the Prince show the old woman had seemed to be genuine respect and affection — |