Example sentences of "she [verb] [to-vb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | She agreed to attend this club the next week with her friend . |
| 2 | She agreed to do this before the next session so that it could be discussed further and then used later in the conjoint session with her parents . |
| 3 | She wants to keep this a secret but I know you 're interested in her . |
| 4 | She got herself a job in Reading college , she got somebody to take her down there and a place to get an English A Level , and Mary said it 's a thing with her she wants to get this English A Level cos her father had one and she feels that is she could get and English A Level it would impress him , he , she spends her life trying to impress her father who does n't really takes much notice of her , . |
| 5 | Miss Henrietta 's death had seemed so much more terrible and yet when she ventured to say this she was met with blank looks . |
| 6 | She tried to superimpose this place on Amelia Dorf 's house , but could not make the images jibe . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But the language she uses to describe this process demonstrates her parodic attitude toward it . |
| 10 | But typically she refuses to do this , writhing on the ground and inviting more and more matings until her period of heat has passed . |
| 11 | In describing her daily life every woman interviewed outlined the kind of standards she thought it important to stick to in housework , and the type of routine she used to achieve this end . |
| 12 | How was she going to survive this weekend ? |
| 13 | The umbilical cord and the afterbirth were still inside me , so she began to yank this baby and I said " Excuse me , I 've still got a bit inside me . " |
| 14 | And she started to say this morning , oh you 're alright ! |
| 15 | She had clearly been a very good-looking woman when younger , and even now was handsome ; paradoxically , the artifices she employed to emphasise this were the very features to strike a false note . |
| 16 | Did she have to face this ? |
| 17 | Being part of the racing establishment , he could be helpful to her , and he had seemed to understand why she needed to pursue this , and it would n't be that painful to see him again . |
| 18 | Lucy almost quailed beneath the onslaught of his wrath , but she persisted with her argument , mainly because she needed to have this point cleared in her own mind . |
| 19 | However Troilus shows little interest in Cressida once the morning light has revealed her features and their bed ; and she seems to realise this : |
| 20 | She hopes to put this year 's experience to good use by eventually becoming a primary school teacher . |
| 21 | ‘ Why does she go to see this lady if she 's dead ? ’ |
| 22 | She proceeded to do this earnestly , seriously , and she sounded like an old steam-engine wheezing from the depths of the water ( that idyllic sound , now long forgotten , which to those who never knew it can be described in no better way than the wheezing of an old woman breathing in and out by the edge of a pool ) . |
| 23 | She managed to imbue this last phrase with a certain pitying incomprehension . |
| 24 | I think it would be best if you came across as nobly resigned : ‘ How could she stoop to do this to me ’ — something along those lines — without going into too much detail . |
| 25 | She appeared to digest this fact . |
| 26 | Now she had to wear this metal cage to stop the bones in her neck crumbling . |
| 27 | She had to revise this at Angel and again at Old Street . |
| 28 | She stood looking after him for a moment ; then she dropped on to an upturned box , and bending her head into the folds of flesh under her chin , she asked of herself why she had to do this . |
| 29 | She felt humiliated by her poverty , especially when the telephone was cut off for non-payment and she had to confess this to Gilda , the senior assistant in the shoe shop . |
| 30 | But she made up her mind , did n't she , that she had to publish this book under a man 's name ? |