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 wrote that the irritation they often felt for each other did not lessen the underlying affection.

She was a success both socially and as a queen consort, and though she remained a devout Catholic, this did not lessen her popularity.

She stood quite still, trying to focus upon a direction in which to turn, a path to follow, a clue to guide her.

She is currently working as a consultant for Girardi & Keese, the New York law firm Weitz & Luxenberg, which has a focus on personal injury claims for asbestos exposure, and Shine Lawyers in Australia.

She often wrote to its then ruler, Tsar Ivan IV, on amicable terms, though the Tsar was often annoyed by her focus on commerce rather than on the possibility of a military alliance.

She represented the United States during her foreign trips, which tended to focus on HIV / AIDS and malaria awareness.

She suggested he simply repeat the word uberflut (" deluge " or " flood ") and focus on its sound rather than its meaning.

She announced in mid-2007 that her Paradise Valley home would be put up for sale, citing her aspirations to " downsize " and focus more on her charity work, and the fact that in the last year she had only " spent about two weeks there.

She said that she would retire from acting as soon as she married, and at that time she intended to focus on her career.

" She reduced acting because of her political activism providing a new focus in her life.

She does not fare much better at Thomas Ewen High School ; she has been a social outcast since first grade, and has been the focus of bullying due to her religious beliefs, her outdated clothing and her plain appearance.

She was intended as a possible replacement for the departing Alexander, but focus groups disliked the character.

She wanted a new kind of family life, one not focused only on the male members of the family, but one which would give a larger place for women to be in focus and develop their own talents and personality.

She thus becomes the focus of many of the trilogy's central themes.

She used a new fine focus X-ray tube and microcamera ordered by Wilkins, but which she refined, adjusted and focused carefully.

She mentions in her article that Watson only shifted his focus to child-rearing when he was fired from Johns Hopkins University due to his affair with Rosalie Rayner.

She who embodies supreme focus and mental clarity.

She is frustrated by their lack of focus, and distances herself both for that reason and because, as revealed later, she has a terminal illness and does not want them to become close to her and then be saddened by her probable death.

She met with her first family in 1951, and by 1955 was working with Illinois Psychiatric Institute, encouraging other therapists to focus on families instead of individual patients.

She remained a member of the Left Party until 2004, when she left to focus entirely on her feminist political work.

She became " part of the next trend in medicine, the move from a preoccupation with curing disease to a focus on prevention and social causal pathways ".

She did not feel it was a technically good shot because the photograph is slightly out of focus ( as she was backing away from Paul to avoid getting hit ).

She says that the work required incredible feats of stamina, focus, memory, quick thinking, and fast learning.

She argued that, although the gender difference has received all the focus, these other differences are also essential and must be recognised and addressed.

She is able to perform several mental functions at once without losing focus on any of them.

She is co-founder and president of Stop Child Executions, a human rights group whose aim is to focus world attention on the plight of young people on death row in Iran.

She famously said at the time of her election, ' stop the world, Scotland wants to get on ', and her presence at Westminster proved to be a real focus for the SNP with a significant rise in membership being the result.