She brought the quirt down, slashing it across his cheek, and he tried to step back.

She came down against him, and he tried to break her fall.

She thrust forward through the shadows and the trees that resisted her and tried to fling her back.

She had even steeled herself to keep Juanita upstairs in the nurse's room off the empty nursery, although the girl tried to insist on moving back to the quarters to spare Kate remembrance of the baby's death.

She tried to find some way to draw him out, to help him.

She tried to think of his unpredictable actions in the eleven years she had known him and discovered they weren't so many after all.

She dreamed up the cookie recipe, tried it, liked it and entered it in the contest.

She had held to the letter of her contract and didn't come onto the stage until well after 4 p.m., the appointed hour, although the Music at Newport people had tried to get the program underway at 3.

She tried to poison him, but at the last second, Aegeus recognized his sword and knocked the poisoned cup out of Theseus ' hand.

She experimented with various opiates in her early adult years, and tried cocaine at age 19.

She tried applying the plein-air painting techniques used by the Impressionists to her own landscapes and portraiture, with little success.

She also tried to convince Pope Gregory XI to return to Rome.

She tried to flee, but he coiled around her legs and held her arms tightly against her sides as he raped her.

She tried to run away, but the blood of the tree had touched her skin and she found her feet rooted to the spot.

She tried to suppress the book.

She was eventually tried for treason and sentenced to death, being beheaded in February 1587.

She tried to shoot her father with a crossbow after King Henry allowed her two young daughters to be blinded.

She was materially happy in this home, a lot happier than many of the other characters, but when her indigenous family tried to meet her, she was caught in crossfire between her two " families ".

She tried to convince Belldandy to return to Heaven to resolve the bug problem and at the same time with the ulterior motive of alleviating her loneliness.

She had earlier appeared on the October 26, 1931 cover along-side her husband and on the January 3, 1937 cover with her husband as " Man and Wife of the Year )" Both husband and wife were on good terms with Time Magazine senior editor and co-founder Henry Luce, who frequently tried to rally money and support from the American public for the Republic of China.

She tells him that the IRA has tried and convicted him in absentia.

She tried to arrange to have Theseus killed by asking him to capture the Marathonian Bull, an emblem of Cretan power.

She pleaded to her brother to let her return home, but he only sent a few agents who tried to assist in helping her situation and refused to let her return home.

She never let anyone challenge her authority as queen, even though many people, who felt she was weak and should be married, tried to do so.

She fled to England and tried to break her contract with Warner Bros. Davis lost the lawsuit and soon returned to America.

She taught her husband arithmetic up to basic algebra and tutored him to improve his literacy, reading, and writing skills.

She was a tireless worker, and relied on input from her vocal coach and producers to improve her sound.

She suggested that reducing the stress of animals being led to slaughter may help slaughterhouse operators improve efficiency and profit.

She concentrated much of her energy on the struggle to improve women's opportunities for higher education and in 1871 co-founded Newnham College, Cambridge.

She has an active interest in health information, and together she and Brin are developing new ways to improve access to it.

She always tries to improve Dennis and his manners, but only succeeds in annoying him.

She later went on to improve a dozen other campuses including the University of Chicago ( 1929 – 1943 ).

She was also heavily involved in the first cooperative community designed by the federal government in the New Deal Era, Arthurdale, West Virginia, which sought to improve the lives of impoverished laborers by enabling them to create a self-sufficient, and relatively prosperous, cooperative community.

She drives Sonya into prostitution in a fit of rage, but later regrets it, and beats her children mercilessly, but works ferociously to improve their standard of living.

The Communist government also attempted to improve the treatment of Manchu people ; some Manchu people who had hidden their ancestry during the period of KMT rule thus became more comfortable to reveal their ancestry, such as the writer Lao She, who began to include Manchu characters in his fictional works in the 1950s ( in contrast to his earlier works which had none ).

She was an active suffragist and Liberal and used her wealth and position to support a number of schemes designed to improve conditions in the town.

She worked to improve her guitar playing, started singing at the Delta Grange Hall in Washington State with the Pen Brothers ' band, The Westerners, then eventually cut her first record in February 1960.

She felt that only on the stage could she improve her skills as an actor.

She currently coordinates a not-for-profit community development organisation based in Dungannon, the South Tyrone Empowerment Programme, and works with migrant workers to improve their treatment in Northern Ireland.

She continued to improve the sound until she felt it was worthy for the king's ears.

She became a member of the Langham Place Group, which set out to improve conditions for women, and was friends with feminists Bessie Rayner Parkes ( later Bessie Rayner Belloc ) and Barbara Leigh Smith, later Barbara Bodichon.

She then withdrew from the 10 remaining tournaments of the year in an effort to recover her health and improve her fitness.

She and Constantine worked on the show from 2001 to 2005, combining their knowledge of fashion to improve the dress sense of the candidates selected for the show.

In December 2009, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said of Veneman, “ She has fulfilled her mandate with immense dedication, and I have been impressed by her extraordinary energy and determination to improve children ’ s health, education and well-being around the world.

She was responsible for launching the RCRA Policy Forum, a membership organization composed of federal and state governments, environmental groups, Capitol Hill staff, and industries interested in furthering constructive dialogue to improve the nation's waste programs.

She was sought out by jazz musicians of the era to coach them to improve their piano technique.

She spent several months in New Mexico in 1988 in an effort to improve her English, and later studied politics and sociology at the University of Düsseldorf for four semesters, which was followed by an apprenticeship as a dressmaker until 1994.

She quoted, “ When Karan Johar wanted my voice to be dubbed for Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, I really thought that it voice was bad and very husky and rough, but slowly I worked to improve my diction, and am now quite comfortable with it.

She also is a perpetual daydreamer who yearns for a glamorous wedding and marriage to a man who will help improve her personal life and free her from a tedious life dominated by her demanding and often psychologically abusive father Bill ( Bill Hunter ), a corrupt politician who verbally lashes out at his subservient wife Betty and their unambitious children at every opportunity.

She was inspired by the subjects her nephew, John Willard, was learning at Middlebury College and strived to improve the curriculum that was taught at girls ’ schools.