Example sentences of "she [verb] [vb pp] [pron] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect she has asked you to tell him everything that has happened , and persuade him to make friends and thank me ? |
| 2 | But after a little gentle persuasion , she has allowed me to tell you she is Maggie Lomas , the regular director of our main news programmed She knows me pretty well by now — after all , we 've worked together for more than 20 years , including the recent series of " At Home " programmes . |
| 3 | He had forced his way into her life , arranged things so that she 'd had no choice but to do his bidding — and as soon as she 'd done something to make it clear that she was still her own person and not his , he 'd humiliated her . |
| 4 | He 'd woken that morning , lying beside Vanessa with a hard-on she 'd wanted him to pleasure her with , and had stupidly refused her , knowing he had a liaison with Martine that afternoon . |
| 5 | Much more to the point , why had n't he said he knew Charlotte Hanover when she 'd asked him to accompany her here this evening ? |
| 6 | Dick cross dresses , confesses he hates women , admits that he once shook Lulu 's hand in 1962 , ‘ If she 'd asked me to marry her , ’ said Dick , smoothing down his silk stockings , ‘ I would have said yes . ’ |
| 7 | Well , she 'd badgered him to let her come along ; she could take cold , muddied feet and be thankful it was n't worse . |
| 8 | Could she have done anything to save her ? |
| 9 | She had nagged me to accept it , but now she behaved as though I had done her a disservice by doing so . |
| 10 | Presumably she had seen nothing to deter her from taking a closer look . |
| 11 | But that was before she had taught herself to hate him . |
| 12 | Her parents were still concerned about her and she had asked them to accompany her for this first appointment . |
| 13 | Only Mrs McMahon could still be affected — and she had asked her to keep it a secret . |
| 14 | Presumably on the basis that it could not involve James , she had asked him to join them for supper . |
| 15 | Beyond all reason , she had wanted him to believe her . |
| 16 | How she had wanted him to kiss her , she did n't know what it was like to be kissed and Craig Grenfell was such a handsome man . |
| 17 | And she had done nothing to stop him . |
| 18 | But she would n't take the blame , because she had done nothing to encourage it . |
| 19 | Why did everyone want to put her in the wrong when she had done nothing to deserve it ? |
| 20 | Except , of course , she could never — ever — tell them what that folly had led to — even if , looking back , she could now honestly say that she had done nothing to provoke it , that she could have expected anger from Havvie at her changing her mind , but never that he would do as he did . |
| 21 | She had done everything to please her loved ones : violets laboriously gathered — she squeezed their overheated remains in her pocket : the double butterfly , so unkindly rejected and expelled ; the pigeons , sated and uncaring before her own hands could minister to their hunger and earn their cooing gratitude . |
| 22 | She had expected him to lead her around the side of the house towards the gravelled front courtyard ; instead he headed in the opposite direction , down through the wide grass path into the garden itself . |
| 23 | She had expected him to leave her but he stayed watching her quietly , picking a biscuit off the plate himself , sharing her milk when she offered him the glass . |
| 24 | Mr Sunderland himself had driven her home in his car , and she had begged him to leave her at the gate so as not to alarm her family . |
| 25 | She had found nothing to enlighten her about either Amy or Marr , only the powerful presence of dead Dersinghams . |
| 26 | She had allowed him to entice her into what was , to him , nothing more than a seduction scene , where she had been primed and ripe for the taking . |
| 27 | He had not seen her since she had attacked him to stop him hitting Oliver . |
| 28 | She felt even worse when she saw Stephen 's girlfriend in church , flourishing the engagement ring she had persuaded him to give her before he left to organise a factory in Newcastle for his firm . |
| 29 | Even though in giving advice to her brother 's wife she had told her to forgive him for his infidelity and take him back , which is what Karenin was doing for her and exactly what she did n't want . |
| 30 | She 's done nothing , she 's done nothing to hurt you . |