Example sentences of "[noun] she [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Thérèse at her side she began to walk back towards the house . |
| 2 | Lewis was a professional , and although she might not agree with his methods she had to face the fact that he would quickly sense something was wrong unless she was very careful . |
| 3 | ( 24 ) He put a hand under her elbow and helped her stumble the few steps she had to take . |
| 4 | The thought rose uncharitably to fill her mind , and suddenly , for some inexplicable reason , the sight of Adele Duncan 's tearful smile and Niall 's look of concern filled her with an emotion she refused to acknowledge as jealousy . |
| 5 | ‘ When the woman driver got out of the car she went to intervene between the two men . |
| 6 | Sara had told her to go to bed , or rather to go and look at the TV programme she wanted to watch . |
| 7 | There was some programme she wanted to do , but I could n't do it , so we talked about our holidays . |
| 8 | Grainne listened , absorbed and serious , and in her mind she began to see the old Ireland , the Ireland of the lost enchantments , very clearly . |
| 9 | But for her own peace of mind she had to put matters straight . |
| 10 | It was n't fair to leave him in a fool 's paradise , and for her own peace of mind she wanted to have everything settled . |
| 11 | Whether a visitor came for a particular story or whether the old woman had one in mind she wanted to relate , the preliminaries were the same : she entered into a state approaching that of a trance . |
| 12 | A British walker survived for seven days without food , save for a few prunes she managed to scavenge out of a dustbin , while lost in New Zealand 's rugged Taparua mountain range . |
| 13 | Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear . |
| 14 | After tea she had to ride out on Midnight , which she could work in with going up to Uncle Knacker 's to see the new horses . |
| 15 | What is more they appear to have done it , whether in small discussion groups , or the concerts and parties she helped to get under way to celebrate the ending of the war , which also came in that year . |
| 16 | Her health began to fail during the recent drought and as a result she had to give up her job . |
| 17 | It was his fault she had to go all the way back to the house . |
| 18 | Then she discovered that it was Travis she had to thank that the news of her engagement to his cousin was all over Vasey 's , as , still smiling , he stated , ‘ Hope you do n't mind , Naylor , but I came in earlier to have a quick word with Leith , and could n't resist telling her assistant that a possible reason for Leith being late this morning could be her getting engaged to you at the weekend . ’ |
| 19 | With a little cry of distress she turned to flee from the room , but got no further than a couple of steps when Luke caught her . |
| 20 | Her bosses , unlike some , loved achievers , and encouraged her to write and broadcast , until with the publication of her biography The Improbable Puritan she left to become a full time writer . |
| 21 | In a magazine interview she managed to upset Catholics by referring to ‘ the evil demons of the papacy ’ , insult some would-be Tory leaders of the past , and raise doubts by making dubious claims about her command of several languages , including Yiddish and German . |
| 22 | As the days , weeks and months dragged on and the fine weather turned to biting snow , preventing builders or delivery vans from approaching Remaisnil , the frustrations for Laura and Bernard became at times overwhelming , One of the lowest moments for Laura was an interview she agreed to give to Susan Raven of the The Sunday Times , for ‘ A Life in the Day of ’ series . |
| 23 | When he went back to college she began to remember again . |
| 24 | Three months into the therapy she began to suffer severe psychological traumas — she says she was in a state of constant terror . |
| 25 | At the doorway she turned to watch Juliet as she cleared the equipment away . |
| 26 | There was a silence so complete she could hear the slight rasp in Mrs Browning 's chest , a rasp that broke into a cough she seemed to welcome . |
| 27 | And inside her head the words she longed to speak hammered at her brain . |
| 28 | Those were the words she had to remember . |
| 29 | ‘ Querida , ’ he had murmured in her ear , and Ruth had waited breathlessly for the words she hoped to hear — that she meant something to him , that he needed her , that he wanted to love her . |
| 30 | Words she tended to forget when she was up and away from him . |