Example sentences of "she [vb past] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the following Monday she proposed to go back to the job she had taken to make it financially possible for Peter and her to buy their little home . |
| 2 | When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped . |
| 3 | Even though she tried to listen out for the sound of a returning car , the castle and the road leading up to it remained as silent as the grave . |
| 4 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 5 | She tried to make out from the hill , as she jogged down the track , whether the ferryboat was plying among the craft in the harbour . |
| 6 | When she tried to get out of the passenger door , he struck her again and called her more names . ’ |
| 7 | I talked to Mum , and she tried to think back to the day she met Elaine , and she remembered I was born in a nursing home in Birkleigh . |
| 8 | She tried to peer out of the peephole in her blind . |
| 9 | She tried to catch up with the machine , but she did n't want to attract any undue attention from the IMC troopers , and the thing seemed determined to ignore her . |
| 10 | She seemed to light up at the idea . |
| 11 | She turned to look out over the battlements again and raised her voice just as the sun broke through . |
| 12 | Sighing , she turned to stare out of the window . |
| 13 | She began to scrabble about in the dirt . |
| 14 | She began to back out of the room , trying to focus on a picture hanging behind the old man on the wall above the mantelpiece , a weird dark picture in which an angel of vengeance flew across a purple sky lit by flashes of lightning , sword in hand , and below a man with blood streaming from his neck prayed for mercy . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't you dare presume to tell me what I need ! ’ she spat , trembling as she began to clamber on to the quayside . |
| 16 | With Thérèse at her side she began to walk back towards the house . |
| 17 | Ca n't get enough of them , ’ interrupted Dexter with a broad smile , anxious to push the superintendent off her soapbox before she started to sound off about the worthlessness of most television . |
| 18 | She loved to walk out into the villages where she would sit round the fire or outside a hut shelling peanuts with a family , so that she learned first hand many of the African customs and quickly mastered the language . |
| 19 | My er my sister worked in the grenade shop and erm after she ca she 'd been working at , on the manor , do you know the manor at Willenhall and then er she decided to go on with the war work and she was courting the man named , John and his father was the timekeeper , later H & T Hornes , but erm it fizzled out and anyway the romance did but erm |
| 20 | Remembering Philippe Bonard 's invitation to use the pool whenever she wished , she decided to call in at the Auberge de la Fontaine and pick up her swimming costume . |
| 21 | After days of reflection she decided to write back in the same icy terms Philip had used with her . |
| 22 | Seeing how low she was , Anthony decided that she needed to get out of the house and gave her reluctant permission to spend half of each day in court . |
| 23 | She offered to come down for the weekend to help , and Carolyn wanted her badly enough to hesitate before putting her off . |
| 24 | She meant to get on in the world . |
| 25 | And so by incessant exercise , her right foot grew larger and broader , while the other remained the same size , and at length she feared to go out in the streets at all , for fear of tripping and falling flat . |
| 26 | Usually in Maytime she liked to walk up into the high mountain meadows to see the wild flowers , but this year she had no heart . |
| 27 | She resolved to find out about the other woman . |
| 28 | Bland little symbols were only mirrors of colour and shape that she had to push around into the order her teachers wanted . |
| 29 | When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on . |
| 30 | She had to sit down on the ground . |