Example sentences of "she [verb] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was just telling you about this girl and what her mother said on the night before she got married to the sailor . ’ |
| 2 | Television presenter Alison Holloway wore white ( well , cream , to be exact ) twice to get married : for her first wedding to Alistair Watson , son of veteran British screen start Jack Watson , and second time around , when she got hitched to TV comedian Jim ‘ Nick Nick ’ Davidson . |
| 3 | When she became engaged to Prince Charles Diana referred to her cleaning job in her reply to Lucinda 's letter of congratulation . |
| 4 | Shortly after her début into London society in 1863 she became engaged to Llewellyn Thomas of Llwynmadoc , the heir to a large coal fortune , but his early death from smallpox in 1864 on the eve of their wedding left her to face a lifetime of spinsterhood and good works , divided between Swansea and her London home in fashionable Knightsbridge . |
| 5 | This would do , he told her , until such time as she became converted to Catholicism and they could marry properly . |
| 6 | Her anxiety about the visit disappeared once she became acclimatized to the appaling conditions confronting her . |
| 7 | She became addicted to alcohol and diet pills , had seven or eight husbands ( depending on which reference book you read ) , and was not averse to the odd bout of fisticuffs when she got off her head . |
| 8 | Denice has already decided she wants chicken , but is n't sure exactly what she wants done to it before it 's put on her plate . |
| 9 | She has written to President Bush offering to hand over part of her late husband 's fortune for distribution to the poor in the Philippines . |
| 10 | She has written to the Attorney General protesting that the courts have been too lenient on Dr Courtney and she has tabled a Parliamentary Question to Sir Nicholas designed to force a judicial review of the sentence . |
| 11 | The child has made no effort , obviously , to relate the word she has written to any pronunciation . |
| 12 | She has written to Darlington MP Michael Fallon about the matter . |
| 13 | She has written to me a couple of times and seems to have managed to keep everyone busy in my absence . |
| 14 | Now that Poland has decided to wage war upon the Russian Bolsheviks , she has turned to our Government for assistance . |
| 15 | Her last with Penguin , as she has moved to HarperCollins , but the publicity is still tied in with her new hardback ( Fallen Skies ) . |
| 16 | Yet she has grown to be very much a part of Canadian society . |
| 17 | Anstey 's approach to this edition was initially intended to be thematic but she has reverted to the chronological format of the first edition , thus not only dispensing with the problems of placing the themes but also giving the reader a parallel in comment on Thomas 's development both in poetry and prose . |
| 18 | Marian 's work now suits her particularly well and in an effort to redress some of the solicitor 's problems described above she has begun to be involved in advocacy training for solicitors assisting in courses run by the College of Law — helping others towards the successful career which she demonstrates is possible from whatever your legal origins . |
| 19 | The Luncheon Voucher trophy goes to Mrs Cynthia Payne for the card she has sent to , among others , Jean Rook , the First Lady of Fleet Street . |
| 20 | When she realizes that by controlling these cries , and producing them at will rather than automatically , she can influence the behaviour of her parents , she has progressed to the directive function . |
| 21 | She has applied to the Barbican and Wembley Conference Centre in the hopes of obtaining work experience in her chosen career before starting the course of training . |
| 22 | But she has vowed to be there on Sunday . |
| 23 | ‘ She has gone to Germany with my sister , ’ he answered . |
| 24 | Mrs Tate is not at all well and she has gone to bed . ’ |
| 25 | Now she has gone to a post at Hendon responsible for training new recruits . |
| 26 | In Kahlo 's painting , the figure falls from the fantasy world she has inhabited to the harsh bloodspattered reality of the street , literally coming down to earth . |
| 27 | He has n't talked to me since , but Violet tells me she has explained to him that ‘ some people are funny about dogs ’ . |
| 28 | Henry , it transpires , is very much the protege of Jane whose negative experiences of residential living have combined with a complex of personal problems and have generated an anger that she has tempered to a cause . |
| 29 | I would like to thank for the enthusiasm and commitment she has given to her ante-natal classes and I know that past ‘ students ’ will have been greatly reassured during their pregnancies by , appreciated her teaching and enjoyed her sense of humour . |
| 30 | On the course , she stands out for her softly , rather than aggressively , spiked hair , a finish with the driver which , like Arnold Palmer 's , tells you precisely how much she has given to the shot , and an unusually generous attitude towards the opposition . |