Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] she [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to be the only real thing in the universe ; the temple , the city , the motorspeeder , all of these were illusions devised to distract her from the important issues , the real business of life . |
| 2 | After the series of treaties in 1854 – 58 which helped to launch her on a rapid and irreversible process of change it could even still be questioned whether full-scale diplomatic representation there was worth what it cost . |
| 3 | One day , as I tried to serve her on the quiet , two deep meaningful coughs from behind me raised the small hairs on my neck . |
| 4 | The crew tried to sail her through a narrow gap at a bridge in Purton . |
| 5 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 6 | For a bit , she tried to turn Yeats into a warrior , and he tried to turn her into a high priestess of the Celtic mysteries — and thus , of course , into a ‘ moderate ’ . |
| 7 | Dr Rossdale said he tried to wean her off the sleeping tablets . |
| 8 | Cati went in to Rosa , who lay gripping the down coverlet , to cram it into her face and muffle her sobs ; she climbed up next to her , and stroked her head , and tried to cradle her with a thin arm across her shaking shoulders and felt herself going dry in her throat and choked up too ; Rosa twisted , her red face glowered up at Cati . |
| 9 | He wants to take her into the Royal Infirmary for tests . ’ |
| 10 | She is pictured with boyfriend , operations supervisor at the computer centre , who invited to join her on the two-day trip . |
| 11 | I tried to tell her about the horrible man on the doorstep but she would n't listen . |
| 12 | ‘ I tried to tell her in a matter-of-fact way that when you die you leave your body behind and go to Heaven . |
| 13 | Consciousness deteriorated and , since the pain ‘ could no longer be relieved ’ , it was decided to kill her with a large dose of opioids . |
| 14 | The house seemed to watch her with a calculating eye . |
| 15 | However , as the torchlight danced ahead she gradually lost the worst of the fears that had at first threatened to turn her into a quivering jelly . |
| 16 | was delighted to tell you that we have already received our first nomination for this position in 1992. has been nominated and seconded and , as she is not a current elected member of the Executive Committee , it has been decided to invite her to the remaining Executive meetings as an observer so that she gets used to how the Society functions . |
| 17 | Her palette of evocative earth and sea tones also seemed to link her to an English landscape tradition , and her work was included in a group show at the Serpentine Gallery in 1984 entitled Landscape , Memory and Desire . |
| 18 | His touch seemed to burn her through the thin cotton of her white blouse . |
| 19 | In spite of our scepticism , to our relief the first boat in that area to be investigated proved to match the photograph and we slunk off into the night , doused our lights , and prepared to follow her at a safe distance . |
| 20 | This is not going to disappear overnight , it 's going to affect her for a long time , and she 's never going to catch up on the work that she 's missed over the last couple of months by having seven teachers in six weeks . |
| 21 | The T&G would like to support her with a clear conscience and every left-of-centre statement from her helps . |
| 22 | They threatened that , if he did not co-operate , the Northern Ireland emergency powers of detention would be used to intern her as a dangerous subversive . |
| 23 | Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place . |
| 24 | ‘ She 's remembered she found a brochure for a hotel in Northumberland and she leapt to the conclusion that Garry was going to surprise her with an unexpected holiday . |
| 25 | Hughes took the British junior team to Austria earlier this year , and the BJA has agreed to employ her as a part-time coach when she retires after the Commonwealth Games . |
| 26 | At the war 's end , charity assembled to comfort her for a brief moment and whilst wishing her long life , nevertheless dispersed and never reassembled . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm going to groom her , and then I 'm going to show her to the National Theatre . |
| 28 | ‘ We do n't want to put her under a great deal of pressure after what she 's been through . |
| 29 | Gently , he began to massage her with a greasy perfumed oil . |
| 30 | I arranged to meet her in the tiny port at Tala-Tala where she was waiting for me . |