Example sentences of "she [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed a long time since Dana 's phone call had brought Roman Wyatt into her life and she badly needed to be by herself to think about the turmoil he had caused in her ordered existence . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's been so conditioned by her husband that she instinctively kowtows to any man who says ‘ boo ’ to her . ’ |
| 3 | It was shortly after this that her mother approached her and in a voice that she rarely used to her , she said , ‘ Agnes , I … |
| 4 | Although sometimes Mrs Parvis talked about Dot , she rarely spoke to her , except to scold or reprimand , whereas Mrs Hollidaye went on talking cheerfully to Loopy Lil and to Dot even though neither replied . |
| 5 | He thought back over the last few hours , the acknowledged relief of talking to Alice , the knowledge that nothing shocked her , nothing surprised her , that everything he did , if not right in her eyes , was judged by a different standard from the one she rigorously applied to the rest of her life . |
| 6 | Although alienating some support by her excessive regard for the physiologically and morally uplifting properties of semen , she emphasized the erotic , mystical , and fulfilling aspects of sexual relations and for these reasons rejected the use of coitus interruptus and the condom , recommending instead the use of the vaginal rubber cap and the quinine ( spermicidal ) pessary which she naïvely believed to be generally available in chemist 's shops and which have never , in the event , proved to be very popular . |
| 7 | She duly turned to the Psalms but found them equally disturbing . |
| 8 | As she lay in the dark , listening to the moan of the wind above the crash of the waves , she slowly came to the realisation that , although she had lost her father , his spirit would give her strength to go on without him . |
| 9 | Taking a deep breath , and casting her eyes up to the ceiling while she slowly counted to ten , Laura decided that motherhood was a highly overrated occupation . |
| 10 | But then , encouraged by her parents , she slowly got to grips with her studies . |
| 11 | She slowly got to her feet , her eyes wide with fear . |
| 12 | Whey-faced and wobbling , she slowly rises to a kneeling position behind the chair and peers out over a rampart of faded chintz , searching the room for the source of my voice . |
| 13 | She eventually crawled to the road and called a passer-by for help . |
| 14 | She eventually transferred to the Tisch School of Arts , New York University , graduating in Fine Arts with a film major . |
| 15 | They parted and Melinda married Philby briefly but this did not work either and she eventually returned to America . |
| 16 | Staggering slightly , she eventually lurched to her feet . |
| 17 | But when she eventually went to bed after a leisurely supper sleep proved elusive . |
| 18 | She eventually emerged to applause , chatted awhile , waved and was gone . |
| 19 | Bed was where she most longed to be . |
| 20 | POLICE were last night trying to trace an actress whose 11-year-old daughter was found alone in a flat after she apparently flew to Spain on holiday . |
| 21 | Not that Susanna Cellini — or Belford-Cellini as she apparently preferred to be known — would be impressed , but neither could she be disparaging . |
| 22 | How superior she suddenly felt to that woman in the bed , the woman whom she had so long admired , even idolised , but who knew little of human nature after all . |
| 23 | ‘ I know what you mean , doctor , and no ; no , he has n't , but- ’ She suddenly sprang to her feet and was standing rigid . |
| 24 | She suddenly rose to her feet , pushing her chair back and reaching for her bag . |
| 25 | For a moment Sarah fell silent , then she suddenly turned to Ruth . |
| 26 | If Eva had any regrets it was that her mother had never been able to put in words just how much she obviously meant to her , and that there had not been more time to spend with her parents over the years . |
| 27 | I do n't want to give the impression that we often talked about Shanti 's origins ; we only did so when she obviously wanted to . |
| 28 | She loved few people , but those very much , and her love extended to inanimate objects which ( I think ) she much preferred to animals . |
| 29 | When she peered cautiously round the door , remembering his annoyance at her earlier prying into this place , she literally froze to the spot . |
| 30 | Leonie Gadd was 20 when she died … she literally starved to death . |