Example sentences of "she [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She made do with Kleenex and blotted the black mascara off her face . |
| 2 | Instead she made do with a holiday in Cornwall with the kids . |
| 3 | ( 58 ) Mrs Thatcher realizes that there is a great deal to be done before she dares launch an all-out offensive in the House of Commons . |
| 4 | When she doth write . |
| 5 | The bride , who fell in love with the former lecturer , as she helped nurse him back to health after his four-year ordeal as a captive , was radiant in a full-length , ivory raw silk dress , with a slit up the side . |
| 6 | Travelling on a mission trip sponsored by the Cottage Hill Baptist Church , she helped distribute 35,000 Bibles in Moscow and attended church services . |
| 7 | As a voluntary worker in 1941 for the Bristol Council of Social Service in the War Emergency Bureau , she helped form the Old People 's Welfare Committee of which she then became Secretary . |
| 8 | FECCAS had formed a branch there and she helped organize women coffee harvesters . |
| 9 | Her ‘ Tale of two orphans ’ focuses on two young African elephants — Ndume and Malaika — who she helped bring up when they were brought to Daphne Sheldrick 's sanctuary following the massacre of the rest of their herd by poachers . |
| 10 | Overlooking the causal nature of meaning with respect to usage leads here to obvious circularity within the formal framework however : to is first defined as necessary to support a clausal complement with no discussion of the data which contradict this postulate ( cf She helped lift him out of the bed ; You 've missed things . |
| 11 | Indeed , the slogan of the Partido por la Democracia ( PPD ) — the party she helped found after the demise of the Pinochet regime — is ‘ Democracy in the Country and at Home ’ . |
| 12 | A friend of mine , who ministered to her late in life , gained the impression , from one or two things she let drop , that , contrary to what has been stated , Eliot did indeed go to Northumberland House , the nursing home where Vivien was looked after . |
| 13 | She let go of the cabinet , coughing in the dust of ages that appeared to be lurking behind it , and smiled back at him as the February sun shone through the small window behind her , throwing into sharp relief the patches on the wall where her predecessor had hung posters , and the ingrained dirt on the flaking paintwork round the mean , narrow , metal window . |
| 14 | Sam thought the nails in her finger and thumb were going to meet each other through the flesh of his shoulder , but to his enormous relief , she let go . |
| 15 | She let go . |
| 16 | The gods smiled on them and she let go of the past . |
| 17 | She let go of Hester and Willie ran to his stepmother , flinging his arms around her . |
| 18 | She let go of the rail and stepped across the landing . |
| 19 | She let go of Adam 's arm and rose ; then looked up at the man who stood there . |
| 20 | ‘ Switch off engine , ’ Dick commanded , and she let go the red button . |
| 21 | Gingerly she let go . |
| 22 | She let go the button . |
| 23 | Then she let go and straightened up , standing there knee deep in the water at the bottom of the unlit channel , the first light lain like a white cloth over the latticework of the surrounding fields , picking out the channel 's lips , the crouching shape of Sung . |
| 24 | She let go of her hot grief , which dissolved and became the dew on his garments . |
| 25 | She let go of his arm , lifting the shoe she had taken off , showing it to him and smiling . |
| 26 | With a feeling of relief , she let go , and felt the tears run down her cheeks . |
| 27 | Abruptly she let go of the last protective remnants of self-deception , but , fearing questions she could n't answer without exposing the full extent of her vulnerability , she rushed on , ‘ I felt guilty to begin with , but I did come to terms with it eventually , and anyway , my parents had encouraged me to stay with radio even though it would take me away from them and they knew what was happening to Dad . ’ |
| 28 | As soon as Felicity had left , she let go of him and they stood side by side , as if waiting for someone to photograph and frame them , listening to the slow ascent of Felicity up the stairs . |
| 29 | She let go of her skirts , but immediately felt a prickle of fear at putting herself out of reach of the inn . |
| 30 | She let go his wrists as if they were scalding hot , stepping smartly away . |