Example sentences of "she [verb] [to-vb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gulped , unable to continue speaking as she fought to keep back the tears that were threatening to fall yet again . |
| 2 | Why did she want to take away the one possession that was truly valuable to him ? |
| 3 | She bent to plump up the cushions . |
| 4 | ‘ She wants to pass on the message that the world is still a great place despite everything . |
| 5 | She moved stealthily down the hall to the kitchen , her hearing sharpened by fear as she strained to detect even the slightest movement in the old house . |
| 6 | Leith requested , and went back to her own office , where for the next twenty minutes she tried to pick up the threads of her job . |
| 7 | She tried to shut out the wind , the explosions , the driving hail , the movement of the ground beneath her feet . |
| 8 | Here was someone in the top position virtually starting from scratch as far as the day-to-day running of the various institutions were concerned , When she tried to lay down the law experienced officers found it hard to stomach . |
| 9 | Staring at his back , she tried to conjure up the image of him lover-like , tender , and failed . |
| 10 | Laura frowned , glancing swiftly up at his tanned features , and she tried to work out the family ramifications . |
| 11 | Resolutely she tried to shake off the memories , but they persisted . |
| 12 | She tried to shake off the feelings but it was sheer impossibility and he smiled down at her . |
| 13 | She tried to picture how the woman had fitted into the Durance coterie . |
| 14 | She moved to switch out the light , forgetting that it was not her lamp that glowed on the bedside table , but he caught her arm , oh-so-very-gently , this time . |
| 15 | Your Mum ca n't afford toilet paper , she has to slide down the banisters . |
| 16 | She has to carry up the children , her shopping and any other goods coming into the household . |
| 17 | She stoops to pick up the leaves , then drops them as ( by a cut ) they transform into a knife . |
| 18 | How could she expect to take on the powerful Lucenzo Salviati — a man with centuries of trickery in his blood — and come out top ? |
| 19 | She came to know instinctively the kind of candid , vivid anecdote that found favour with him , the sort of thing that made him chuckle with delight , and sometimes scribble it down in a note-book . |
| 20 | Though everyone was behind Sheehan as she strove to become only the thirteenth entrant to the Hall of Fame , it was difficult not to feel for Dawn Coe-Jones . |
| 21 | Now with the release of her new album , ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ she prepares to take on the world again , with music of an almost other-wordly beauty . |
| 22 | The wedding was off , because no way was she going to walk down the aisle looking like an eejit ! |
| 23 | She began to see why the previous nurses had all thought him worth chasing after . |
| 24 | Then , collecting her thoughts , shutting out all sound save that in her headset , she began to take down the message . |
| 25 | She began to take out the postcards , revealing the snapshots underneath . |
| 26 | And she began to walk home the long way round so as not to bump into anybody . |
| 27 | She began to piece together the line of questioning . |
| 28 | As Gedanken peered into the bubble she began to make out the spacecraft . |
| 29 | Presently , she grew a little more adjusted to the noise and she began to make out the details a little more plainly ; she could see that the captives were all young men , some of them not much more than boys , but certainly strong and lithe . |
| 30 | When she found a lot more shoots in different places , she decided they needed more air and light , so she began to pull out the thick grass around them . |