Example sentences of "she [vb past] [conj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It betrayed nothing personal about its owner — unless he was an emotionless aesthete — and somehow she doubted that to be the case as her psyche responded to the presence of a simmering powerhouse within the lean , muscled frame before her . |
| 2 | She added that to herself while , aloud , she elaborated , ‘ I was fishing for a coin that I 'd accidentally dropped down the back of the chair … and there was my passport and the rest of my stuff . ’ |
| 3 | She owed that to him at least for having been , over the years , such a disappointment to her father . |
| 4 | When Isobel had gone — dear , patient , wise Isobel whom she loved and to whom she was often so unreasonable — Anna ran water into the empty coffee mugs and stood them in the sink . |
| 5 | Nora endured one day at Thorpe after John had left ; then she decided that to be without him but surrounded by the children , the house , the land — by all they stood to lose and all that would make the loss hurt most — would be intolerable . |
| 6 | She knew that to outside eyes they were behaving like two civilised adults , even though that was the last thing she felt . |
| 7 | She knew that to be true , though Emily meant the world to her . |
| 8 | Desperately she pleaded but to no avail . |
| 9 | The momentary weakness had bothered her for weeks afterwards as she worried as to whether she had lost her professionalism along with the opportunity to grill Hugo Varna over the truth about his relationship — and Paula 's — with the man who had died as he lived in a blaze of publicity . |
| 10 | She said but to these people that buy these kids motorbikes and big cars for two hundred quid . |
| 11 | No , but the way she said that to me I thinks . |
| 12 | ‘ Wait and see , ’ she said and to both their surprises she turned and put her arms on Maggie 's shoulders . |
| 13 | she just been over some house in Trafford Road and er , I think she left some , some by there by what she said or to who , who it were , but it must of been them who put them onto us , because she come in |