Example sentences of "[verb] she [to-vb] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 She was unbearably aware of the tensile strength of his incipient beard beneath the shaven smoothness of his jaw , just as she was of the aroused hardness of his body , controlled , contained but testifying to his rampant masculinity in a way that was driving her to abandon the last remaining threads of self-control .
2 People very kindly took her under their wing , explained the rules , explained the dangers of unexpected holes , and then encouraged her to spend the next few hours crawling into and under wet gorse bushes .
3 Then , on 31 December , he rang back in desperation at the slow progress on the house , and told Sybille they would like her to start the next day .
4 Her strong commitment to women 's rights led her to write the first Salvadorean publication on the oppression of women , The Condition of Women in El Salvador , published in Mexico in 1961 .
5 After his death , members of the wine trade enabled her to become the first person outside the trade to study for and sit its examinations .
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