Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] she [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She kept telling Ivan that she had to leave , and he kept telling her that he was a great lover although his prick was only six inches long . |
| 2 | It was a force that she tried to hide away tidily , as her mother would have done , because it was a dark and hideous thing that shook her violently . |
| 3 | Sarah Stitt is possessed of the same huge eyes that she likes to paint in her huge-eyed portraits . |
| 4 | As it happened , this queen mother was the most remarkable and able of them all , and it is therefore something of an irony that she had to wait for twelve years , until 1554 , and stage a successful coup , before obtaining the place which earlier queen mothers had immediately enjoyed . |
| 5 | She was not a lesbian and it was Constance 's mind that she wished to possess , not her body . |
| 6 | ‘ When she opened the hospice in June , she gave no indication that she intended to come back . ’ |
| 7 | She no more wanted to trudge all the way back to her jeep than she wanted to stay here arguing with this infuriating man . |
| 8 | It was a pleasure that she wanted to press into her body while at the same time throw it off as far away from her as possible . |
| 9 | Guy stood up and smiled down at her with such glittering mockery that she wanted to thump him . |
| 10 | Maura was more like her brothers than she cared to think about . |
| 11 | Claire used to repeat his sentences the same way when they were kids and she wanted to wind him up . |
| 12 | He agreed to pay them but told Gina she must give some Italian lessons or something in future if she wanted to treat herself to things like that . |
| 13 | Suddenly the tears spurted out of Daisy 's eyes and she had to turn away and bury her face in Drew 's Land-Rover . |
| 14 | Tears jumped into Evelyn 's eyes and she started to hurry in the direction of the girls ' barracks , ignoring the missiles which caught her on the back and arms or dropped uselessly on either side . |
| 15 | Then the toot of a trumpet and the clown with the enormous sorrowful eyes was coming at her in her ring-side seat and she wanted to run away . |
| 16 | He 'd threatened her with the direst reprisals if she dared to leave their suite , not guessing that wild horses would n't drag her away until she 'd cleared the whole matter up . |
| 17 | Wexford approached Nora Fanshawe and she turned to face him . |
| 18 | Then he had dashed back inside and curled up in his seat with his hands covering his ears until she came to take him home . |
| 19 | It was growing dark and she had to squint to make out the details of the room . |
| 20 | One of the colleges he listed invited Katrina up for an interview and she seemed to like it there . |
| 21 | Fabia was still in stunned surprise that her Volkswagen Polo was going to be towed by a Mercedes when the stranger went to the rear of her car and she had to snap out of her shock to steer . |
| 22 | He was quite frank about the whole thing , told us H. had given him a fiver to turn up , asked Madge if she wanted to go through with it , which of course she did n't . |
| 23 | Then came the snow and she had to stay in and watch from the window how it piled up against the water butt , how it lay like a blanket along the sills , how it changed the distance from bluey brown to white as far as you could see . |
| 24 | Well , there was some trouble at college and she had to leave . ’ |
| 25 | It had little effect and she had to force herself into the driving seat and begin the return journey . |
| 26 | He was still clasping her by the shoulders and she tried to shake free . |
| 27 | ‘ She was running around at 10 months and she loves to sing all day long . |
| 28 | Probably because Rome had no alternative if she hoped to establish her dominion over Ireland at all . |
| 29 | Apart from the question of winning , Nutty kept having nightmares about the money they owed Biddy if she chose to press the debt . |
| 30 | ‘ The woman involved was a married woman with a family and she and Philip had lived together for a couple of months but she decided to go back to her husband in September . ’ |