Example sentences of "she [vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As usual she planned to shut it all out , and let Christine take over . |
| 2 | She tried to shut it all out of her mind , and remember that she should consider herself lucky , for Avenue Foch would be a thousand times worse . |
| 3 | An incessant internal monologue occupied her most of the morning , during which , by turns , she tried to convince herself that Fen 's effect on her was all in her imagination or berated herself for being fickle . |
| 4 | Staring up at him , she tried to read his own feelings in his eyes and could n't . |
| 5 | Even as she recognised the skill behind the caress , she was jolted by a dart of sheer untrammelled longing deep within her , and , hard as she tried to fight her own traitorous desires , she knew she was lost . |
| 6 | Benny 's head ached as she tried to work it all out . |
| 7 | When she came to see you that |
| 8 | She seemed to have her own armour plating to protect her emotions . |
| 9 | Like Anne , Maureen had often felt uneasy about Sarah 's relationship with Terry and thought that she seemed to regard him more as a brother than a lover . |
| 10 | She hated to face him all pale and pinched , with heavy eyes and mauve shadows beneath them . |
| 11 | At the age of sixteen she began to earn her own living by teaching , first as a resident governess and then for six years as a freelance teacher of mathematics . |
| 12 | Now there were few options open to her ; rather on the old side to be sure of getting married , she decided to do what most of those who wanted to survive usually did : she left Frome . |
| 13 | She decided to give him another chance , this time on her own terms . |
| 14 | So , like many other parents in her situation , she decided to fight her own case . |
| 15 | She needed to keep it all to herself for a few hours — hours in which she could live that precious time over and over again , recall his kisses , his voice and , above all , the look in his eyes . |
| 16 | Thrusting her palms angrily against his chest , she managed to bring them both back to earth again . |
| 17 | Nevertheless she managed to eat it all up . |
| 18 | She managed to keep her own voice even as she smiled sympathetically at Jim . |
| 19 | At the OK Corral — as she preferred to call what some of its visitors termed her quim ( the phrase struck her as useful after she 'd seen the Western ) — some men proved themselves and others came to grief , and both kinds had male competitors on their mind and wanted to outgun them . |
| 20 | She wished to live her own life , and they must respect that wish . |
| 21 | ‘ She had to take her some flowers . ’ |
| 22 | If she had to take her own reading things she ought to start collecting them now , whereas if they supplied them it would be embarrassing to turn up with a bag of newspapers , as if you did n't know how to behave . |
| 23 | She was there because you had not kept your appointment with her and so she had to make her own way home in the dark . ’ |
| 24 | His grandmother , living in luxury in the Plaza Hotel in Buenos Aires and grumbling because she had to wash her own stockings , claimed she had no money even to pay her own bills . |
| 25 | She had to pay her own air fare , but was given free board and lodgings at the school where she worked , and was paid a grand total of £5 a month expenses ! |
| 26 | But first she had to get herself some English money . |
| 27 | She had to fit her own routine into the day . |
| 28 | He was sharp , she had to hand him that — too sharp , in her estimation ! |
| 29 | She had to find her own way , in the damp , in the shadows , by the light of forty-watt bulbs , in the solitary evenings . |
| 30 | She had to find her own way to the bathroom and was pleased with herself for so quickly remembering that it lay at the end of the passage . |