Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] she [be] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had taken all Anna 's coloured chalks , so that she was reduced to standing and watching while he drew the pictures . |
| 2 | She was able to keep Steve because where she lived within the er there was a little coronet of little tatty houses that have since been pulled down and she was related to fifteen in fifteen out of the twenty two houses she had a relative . |
| 3 | Alexandra was not sure if she should sit down before she was invited to , but by now she hardly cared . |
| 4 | Note the startling sparsity of adjectives : she uses them only when she is forced to , so they seem pressed out of the nouns through sheer weight of need . |
| 5 | Mrs. McKenzie , whose mother was also a member of Grayshott Good Companions , will be very sorry to leave the Thursday afternoon friends she has known for so long — but she will not be sitting at home alone as she is going to Grayshott 's weekly day centre . |
| 6 | Not that she was admitting to anything more definite than a quiver of tingling excitement every time he came near her , of course . |
| 7 | I can see already that she is going to be good . |
| 8 | I ca n't smell petrol , and I 'm pretty certain she 'd have blown already if she was going to , but I 'm not prepared to take the chance . |
| 9 | Alter the final pre-operative preparations were completed , a premedication was given at 11.00 am. and Mrs Fellows dozed comfortably until she was escorted to theatre . |
| 10 | Angela died just as she was beginning to be more widely accepted . |
| 11 | She knew then , as he stared at her icily that she was going to be on the receiving end of a straightforward , ‘ Not , ’ at any moment now . |
| 12 | But Lili said there were few enough times when she got the chance really to dress up and she was going to now . |
| 13 | Then she fell upon him , leaning out and abandoning herself to his grip , throwing both legs up until she was rammed to the hilt of him , and feeling that marvellous pulse as he squandered his month of continence into her , spending on and on . |
| 14 | There was another memorable moment a few months later when she was flown to Leeds by the same helicopter — ‘ I have to admit , it 's my favourite method of transport ’ — to attend a Press conference . |
| 15 | By the time she was thirteen the routine of agony and rebellion on one side and vengeful discipline on the other had worn everyone out and she was taken to a barber . |
| 16 | Erm well if she 's going to be er having an income of about twenty thousand a year after the mortgage is paid I think that would be sufficient . |
| 17 | ‘ King Henry has decreed that it stays here until she is restored to Scotland . ’ |
| 18 | Doctors seemed to be coming and going all morning , so it was n't until she was sent to coffee that Juliet had time to think of her mother . |
| 19 | Even when she was flying to me from various positions , the slightest disturbance in the landscape might distract her attention . |
| 20 | Even when she was talking to you or giving you your change , you could feel her smile going somewhere over your shoulder as she took in the whole room behind you . |
| 21 | Frantic appeals for help kept going out to Rome — Rome was still the patron , the protector , the fortress , even when she was falling to pieces herself . |
| 22 | The ‘ dark'-moon state may often be recognized when you are in conversation with a woman , by a lack of signalled response even though she is listening to you . |
| 23 | Then when she was talking to me someone knocked at the door then Auntie Linda was saying he wo n't bite you , he 's alright . |
| 24 | Well yeah , she 's probably gon na be , now , I , no it 's either that she 's going to be well certainly , an introduction to the kind of methods that Donne Donne uses which I , I 'm supposed to follow up on . |
| 25 | Her emotionally deprived life is enhanced briefly when she is read to in a churchyard on Sunday afternoons by the invalid cousin she had loved as a child . |