Example sentences of "a [noun] she [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She loved me all right and I was her only son , but oh , what a struggle she had to show ii . |
| 2 | Deep down , in some tiny corner of her mind untouched by this scorching , debilitating heat , she knew this was madness , yet she seemed powerless to resist as his mouth moved back to hers , hot and urgent , seeking a response she had to give . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But after a term she decided to take a different route , bookshop experience , a degree in English , more bookshop experience , and some in wholesaling . |
| 5 | Her health began to fail during the recent drought and as a result she had to give up her job . |
| 6 | Like a child she wanted to explore . |
| 7 | And my mum thinks a home she wants to take me to a psychiatrist or something . |
| 8 | It was a skill she needed to master if she was to drop into occupied France . |
| 9 | Had n't he realised that if he married a girl she had to eat ? |
| 10 | It 's a shame she had to go . ’ |
| 11 | And , briefly glimpsed , in a place she longed to reach , there still lay tenderness . |
| 12 | From being the centre of his attention one moment all of a sudden she ceased to exist . |
| 13 | For a moment she wanted to rebel , to pull back from the brink even at this stage of the game . |
| 14 | So it was a desire she had to deny . |
| 15 | And when something odd began to happen in her own body , a sensation she wished to call ugly because she had never felt it before and did not wish to feel it now with him , she released her temper again , thrashing about quite wildly beneath him to hurt herself and make the treacherous feeling go away . |
| 16 | She settled down to wait with a book on caving she found in his bookcase , but after a while she had to acknowledge he 'd been gone longer than she 'd expected . |
| 17 | For a while she managed to swim , but eventually she grew tired and her mouth filled with water , and she sank choking beneath the waves … |
| 18 | After a while she began to enjoy the pure clear voices of the Sisters . |
| 19 | After a while she began to speak again and Fatima listened , her elbows on her knees and her chin on her hands . |
| 20 | He put his arm around her , and after a while she began to cry . |
| 21 | After a while she began to get the message , but it required a lot of patience . |
| 22 | At first she walked with confidence , reversing her earlier directions , but after a while she began to get confused . |
| 23 | She had switched the apartment air-conditioning off , distrusting its effect on the health , and for a while she tried to convince herself that it was the unaccustomed humidity that made her so restless , but she did n't really believe it , and the eyes that looked back at her from her bathroom mirror in the morning were shadowy , and hunted . |
| 24 | For a while she tried to stay awake , but in the end she gave up . |
| 25 | For a while she tried to work , but it was useless . |
| 26 | When Karen Stephens trained as a hairdresser she had to learn more than just the rudiments of cutting and blow-drying/ She also had to tackle the problems of learning how to lip-read in a mirror , as 20-year-old Karen has been deaf all her life . |
| 27 | There was no sign of a studio and for a minute she expected to find that Alain had been merely frightening her — some hidden cruelty to make her feel uncomfortable , another chance to embarrass her . |
| 28 | For a minute she continued to hold on to me . |
| 29 | In order to make a weekly sum of money even dimly visible to the naked eye , she had to translate fifty pages a week , a drudgery she tried to regard as ineluctable as brushing her teeth or washing the kitchen floor . |
| 30 | Almost giddy with nervous tension and a feeling she refused to acknowledge as fear , Luce sighed with relief . |