Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | But before she could react , Jake went on to assure her , ‘ What 's more , you 're wrong to believe I was prying . |
| 2 | ‘ Sarella ? ’ he murmured , shifting his weight a little to enable her to continue her first tentative exploration . |
| 3 | She hopped down to the floor , but it seemed further away than she had expected and now suddenly it was rising up crazily to meet her . |
| 4 | The letter went on to inform her that she was welcome to continue working with the group in the unlikely event that she would want to . |
| 5 | Clare walked down slowly to meet her . |
| 6 | I should have knelt beside her and put my arms around her and promised her that she would be freed from the hell of anhedonia , and that there really was a God and that she did have the strength to tear herself free from cocaine , as others had freed themselves , and I should have assured her that there was true happiness without a drug , but I did not know her well enough to embrace her , so I just let her weep as the sun streaked up in glory from the east . |
| 7 | She had no way of telling how deep it was , but it was narrow enough to support her easily if she slipped or lost her hold . |
| 8 | Wilson took the baby in to see her as soon as she was about and he was admired but , she fancied , with some sense of distancing . |
| 9 | But this man will pull no punches when he is irked : as the head of the Thatcher loyalists determined that she should fight to the end , he threatened to floor a Thatcher aide who was guarding her door unless he allowed him in to see her . |
| 10 | When he received the despairing note from Sien he hurried in to see her . |
| 11 | He awaited a reply eagerly and was going to drop in to see her on his next leave . |
| 12 | This time when he came back in to see her , the air was darkest around his form , but when he grinned over the noise of the men in the room behind the door — a woman 's laugh punctured the air beyond — and he sat down peaceably at the foot of her bed , the blue paled to a translucence like a robin 's egg . |
| 13 | When she came in to see her , Ma 's eyes would fill with tears — and then Lily would very nearly give in . |
| 14 | But when Alice was taken in to see her on the second day , she was sitting up in a swansdown wrap , surrounded by flowers . |
| 15 | Disregarding the proprieties Harry went in to see her . |
| 16 | After the operation , her surgeon dropped in to see her every day , often twice a day . |
| 17 | They listened to her story with interest , but afterwards stopped popping in to see her , and did n't return her calls . |
| 18 | Once , when she was ill and I had to show the doctor in to see her , he was rather disconcerted to see the bedclothes on either side of Mrs Field appear to rise of their own accord — and four dogs emerged ! |
| 19 | ‘ You can come in to see her , young man , but she needs the attentions of a doctor — and that 's what she 's going to get . |
| 20 | She 's awfully good about popping in to see her . |
| 21 | so Lisa said can we go in to see her |
| 22 | Cos I took Nicky in to see her first because our Nicky 's one of those that erm takes a long time to get to know anybody ? |
| 23 | Yes , put her to bed , and there 's different people call in to see her |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said , again , as though it were the most reasonable thing in the world , but she saw that her mother looked worried , and that doubtless Papa was behaving as he did because he had been worried about her , his darling , whom he had sent away from him , only to lose her in a foreign country — for that was what Britain was . |
| 25 | He looked angry enough to whip her and Maggie had difficulty standing her ground . |
| 26 | The justification for reserving this not uninfluential role to a small number of wealthy , landed families was that since they had to act as the Queen 's hosts when she visited the county , they needed a house big enough to accommodate her and her entourage . |
| 27 | Merely to connect her with the Battle of Trafalgar liquefied him a little further because it moved him . |
| 28 | As she could n't yet swim properly the current might be strong enough to carry her away . |
| 29 | How could he hold her so tenderly one moment , only to treat her like this the next ? |
| 30 | Theda had reached down to clasp her trembling fingers lightly about the cold wrist lying on the coverlet , but she had known already that there was no pulse to be discerned . |