Example sentences of "she [vb past] [conj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know how ! ’ she shouted and rose to her feet to get away from him but he twisted there before her , his hands on her shoulders and his brown-black eyes blazing down into hers . |
| 2 | She rose and went to her aunt and put her arms round her shoulders . |
| 3 | She rose and went to the window , still in the half-real state induced by daytime sleeping , and looked out at the darkening world where the yellow glow of a lamp in the yard showed Jem was milking . |
| 4 | She rose and moved to the window and stared out into the silent square . |
| 5 | She rose and hurried to the door and opening it saw not Craig but the small figure of Will Davies crouching in the street . |
| 6 | She stopped and looked to the side , and when she did n't continue , he said , ‘ He 's tried to commit suicide ? ’ |
| 7 | Suddenly she stopped and turned to me . |
| 8 | So she came and talked to 'em we had a long chat and actually I mean it er does sound very interesting . |
| 9 | Distress caused her eyes to brim with tears , and , furious with her own weakness , she turned and went to the inner office window , where she stared through a blur at the tree-sheltered chalets . |
| 10 | Seeing movement among the trees at the far end of the stone-flagged path , she turned and signalled to the maids to be quiet . |
| 11 | She turned and signalled to her maids who at once came out from beneath the trees and hurried along the path to her . |
| 12 | She nodded and walked to the door . |
| 13 | Then without a backward look she nodded and returned to her piles of steaming clothes . |
| 14 | But by the time they were back in Hollywood to do interiors at Paramount Studios , she deteriorated and had to be replaced by Elizabeth Taylor . |
| 15 | Where she belonged and wished to be , she would direct . |
| 16 | As TV cameras focused on Phylis before the race , she grinned and pointed to her vest . |
| 17 | She shuddered and returned to her typewriter . |
| 18 | She shuddered and returned to her former seat . |
| 19 | Hurieh El Darrawish , pregnant and suffering from renal colic and anaemia , was threatened with rape and beaten until she collapsed and had to be taken to hospital . |
| 20 | She stumbled and fell to her knees . |
| 21 | She laughed and pointed to the can in his hand . |
| 22 | She had a round face , round eyes which she rolled and raised to the ceiling while she spake ( spoke was too mundane a term for her pronouncements ) and she invariably began these pronouncements with ‘ Whooo — ’ to which Jane mentally added ‘ To-whit-too-whoo ’ , and concluded that there must be an owl species called Shurll . |
| 23 | She purred and flirted to no avail . |
| 24 | She shivered and clung to Maggie , burying her head like a child . |
| 25 | Jocelyne Saab , on the other hand , took issue with the question itself , which she saw as confined to the typically limited preoccupations of White , Western , middle-class feminists . |
| 26 | Eric 's head was too big for her ; she haemorrhaged and bled to death on the marital bed back in 1960 . |
| 27 | After a pause , while she knitted and changed to a new ball of wool , she surprisingly said , ‘ Oh dear . ’ |
| 28 | She smiled and turned to Klift . |
| 29 | She smiled and pointed to the wall to her right . |
| 30 | Then she smiled and replied to the question with a joke . |