Example sentences of "she [vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ambled down roads and along paths that she knew well and she failed to record what she saw . |
| 2 | She lived to regret what she regarded as her weakness , for the child 's fate was to be so terrible that his existence had to be denied in her own mind . |
| 3 | She agreed to do what she could to help . |
| 4 | She probably managed to make him pay her a little more before she agreed to do what he wanted — and altogether earned for herself in one evening more than she does in several days of being a parlourmaid . |
| 5 | ‘ She was frightened then , and so , in the end , she agreed to do what I wanted , and leave La Tour Monchauzet forever . ’ |
| 6 | If she agreed to marry him she would offer him what she could — affection , duty , loyalty — and he could decide whether it was enough . |
| 7 | Julia tried to obey , as she tried to do everything he demanded of her over the next few days and as she tried to keep her misery and pain and fear from all of them . |
| 8 | She tried to ignore what he had done . |
| 9 | She tried to remember what he had told her , some kind of business , something unmemorable , like selling software . |
| 10 | Frantically Shannon tried to wriggle away , but he was too fast for her , his large body effectively pinning her to the mattress , and when she tried to slap him he caught her flailing wrists and held them fast on the pillow above her head . |
| 11 | Occasionally she tried to rationalize what she was doing . |
| 12 | She tried to guess what he might have found out about Sabine Jourdain that did not hinge on her death . |
| 13 | She tried to convince herself he was still there — smirking at the sight of her in the ropes he 'd tied to her naked body . |
| 14 | She tried to imagine what it would be like to sink to the sea bed and stay there , calmly , with only a steel hull between a man and the enormous , pressing waters . |
| 15 | Lying awake at night and listening to the moaning of the wind and the howling of the dogs , she tried to imagine what it could possibly be like to give herself to her cousin , a man nearly ten years older than herself . |
| 16 | She tried to imagine what it would be like to have no chance of a baby of one 's own . |
| 17 | She tried to think what she should do . |
| 18 | Something in that reminded her of Clare and she stared out of the window , frowning , as she tried to think what it was . |
| 19 | Only I felt bad , because she tried to tell me she felt rotten , and I was just trying to read . " |
| 20 | Though she tried to tell herself it did n't matter whether or not he believed her , she knew the truth — it did . |
| 21 | She tried to tell herself it was her pride that had been damaged , but something raw and bleeding inside told a different story . |
| 22 | As she watched him striding up the beach she tried to consider what he had said but with his loss the full weight of her grief hit her with a thud that stopped her eyes , her ears , her brain . |
| 23 | The day you joined up , she came to tell me I 'd driven you to it . ’ |
| 24 | Then she seemed to grasp what they were saying . |
| 25 | After a moment , she seemed to find what she was looking for and stepped up to the door . |
| 26 | And sh they she was given erm some sort of oh something to put her to sleep or whatever gas and I know sh she seemed to know what she was doing but this lady that was there with her she passed out with the smell of gas in the room so she was n't much help . |
| 27 | She seemed to read what he was doing in an instant , but he did n't wait around to see her reaction . |
| 28 | ‘ She was so very young , yet she seemed to understand what it could be like , being denied the one thing you wanted . |
| 29 | Mrs Hodges had never mastered the idea of colour in a salad , she seemed to think what you needed was a match . |
| 30 | When she turned to ask him she saw that he was blushing painfully . |