Example sentences of "she [vb past] [to-vb] [pron] " 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 | Mrs Palmer-Radford 's other son , Oliver , aged six , only discovered what had happened after she failed to collect him from his Catholic prep-school , it emerged yesterday . |
| 3 | Leith noted his excitement , but since over-enthusiasm was all part and parcel of his personality , and seldom meant that the house was on fire , she failed to match his enthusiasm . |
| 4 | She was so poorly versed in the emotions that she failed to comprehend its true nature . |
| 5 | When she failed to retort he cocked an eyebrow at her , waiting for the sparring to continue . |
| 6 | She expected to see him gazing at Comfort with the admiration she deserved , but in fact he was looking down at Julia . |
| 7 | " I asked her if she expected to see him when he got back , and she said , " To be perfectly frank , I do n't know . |
| 8 | The woman looked around the yard as if she expected to see her daughter emerge from one of the doors or from behind a pile of rubbish . |
| 9 | She expected to take them through the process several times , demonstrating the skills and strategies involved , and gradually increasing the amount which they were able to tackle independently , before they could manage by themselves . |
| 10 | She expected to live her life as though she still had four maids with me doing their work . ’ |
| 11 | Any minute she expected to feel his hand on her breast . |
| 12 | I could n't imagine what she expected to tell them if they all came back on the same day . |
| 13 | At any moment she expected to hear his voice behind her , calling her back . |
| 14 | Fingers that longed to cling curled into her fists as she made to push herself away . |
| 15 | This as she made to touch him . |
| 16 | She made to open her door , but he detained her , his hand sliding down to her shoulder , his fingers warm and fatally comforting through the silk blouse . |
| 17 | Instinctively she made to cover her breasts , but he caught her arm . |
| 18 | She made to pass him , but he grasped her arm , detaining her . |
| 19 | The others , presumably , would have known just as much as she cared to tell them . |
| 20 | Slowly her face reddened as she fought to control her anger and her tears . |
| 21 | The tremor was back in her voice , and she fought to control it . |
| 22 | Coming back round by the house for the third time , she got quite above herself , and the bike began to wobble alarmingly as she fought to control it . |
| 23 | There was passion in her , showing itself in anger , yet she fought to control it . |
| 24 | ANIMAL lover Angela Toller was kicked to death by a herd of cows as she fought to save her pekinese from being trampled underfoot yesterday . |
| 25 | PRINCESS Diana became ‘ Mrs Walsh ’ as she fought to end her marriage , it was revealed last night . |
| 26 | As she clenched her hands on the rail until they hurt , she fought to hate him , to make herself angry , not to give in to the terrible despair that kept threatening to overwhelm her . |
| 27 | She fought to keep it . |
| 28 | Her eyes blazed back at him as she fought to contain her inner excitement . |
| 29 | But , no matter how hard she fought to squash it , a flicker of excitement continued to torment her , like the buzz of a mosquito that just would n't go away . |
| 30 | 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 . |