Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] she [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Gregory the slanders against Fredegund were intended to drive her from the court , thus facilitating the elevation of her stepson , Clovis , to the throne . |
| 2 | He did not want to bring her in to talk to him , nor did he want to interview her in the presence of her devoted but sharp-eyed husband . |
| 3 | If Rohan needed to have a private word with her , why had n't he arranged to see her at the house instead ? |
| 4 | She was disappointed that he had n't arranged to meet her during the afternoon or even later on . |
| 5 | ‘ I was wondering whether you 'd arranged to meet her for a talk — to break the news to her ? ’ |
| 6 | You want to see her in the morning when she bloody get up . |
| 7 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
| 8 | The elderly lady found a private moment in which to invite her hostess to come to see her in the room she occupied in her daughter 's house . |
| 9 | Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant . |
| 10 | And he had probably expected to see her at the shop this morning , while she had been waiting impatiently at his office . |
| 11 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 12 | I would need to do more than just win this game , I would need to annihilate her like the cockerel ; more , I would need to break her completely . |
| 13 | As she leaned into the car , the attacker grabbed her and tried to pull her into the vehicle . |
| 14 | I promised to remember her to the Harvey-Beaumonts ‘ over the water ’ , and we set off once more , along a road that ran beside a demesne wall . |
| 15 | A SPURNED lover disguised himself to kidnap his ex-girlfriend then tried to stab her in the neck with a syringe , a court heard yesterday . |
| 16 | The conductress tried to console her with a glass of sweet , strong tea but without much success . |
| 17 | He tried to discourage her in every way . |
| 18 | He insinuated his right hand under her arm and tried to ease her towards the Bayswater Road . |
| 19 | She left her home last night as her owner tried to weigh her in the garden . |
| 20 | You 'll need to reassure her about the reliability of your products and the good service your shop offers . |
| 21 | The green at the 14th is so severely sloped that he knew he would need to leave her below the flag , and did so ‘ by about two light-years ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Somebody tried to phone her at the flat . |
| 23 | He stopped and turned her towards him and tried to kiss her on the mouth . |
| 24 | He slid his arm round her narrow waist and bent to kiss her on the forehead . |
| 25 | Madonna has often talked of her Ten Year Plan , a route to megastardom designed to keep her in the manner to which she has quickly become accustomed for years to come too . |
| 26 | If you tried to pat her on the shoulder and say ‘ There , there , ’ anything might happen . |
| 27 | A yellow child tried to interest her in a jar of dead flies . |
| 28 | He had come to question her in the manner of someone who comes to peer at a freak in a sideshow . |
| 29 | Margaret Jones claims her husband tried to murder her at the family home in Brockhampton , by pumping exhaust fumes from the garage into her bedroom . |
| 30 | However , a safer and a wiser idea is to take up what I began with : Phyllis Bottome telling how Pound , when they were both young , tried to turn her as a writer from an amateur into a professional . |