Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] her [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was wondering whether you 'd arranged to meet her for a talk — to break the news to her ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The conductress tried to console her with a glass of sweet , strong tea but without much success . |
| 4 | A yellow child tried to interest her in a jar of dead flies . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Pound had known Phyllis Bottome between 1905 and 1907 , when they were fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania , and it 's not clear whether it is that early association , or a period later when she had caught up with him in London , that Phyllis Bottome had in mind when she wrote of how Pound tried to transform her as a writer from a talented amateur into a professional : |
| 7 | All the eligible mature men were married already , and it would not be fitting to contract her in a match where she was not the senior wife . |
| 8 | His eyes seemed to study her for a moment . |
| 9 | Maybe , if she could squeeze a mink coat out of Maxie , it would help her towards the membership which always seemed to elude her by a vote or two , a vote strongly influenced , she feared , by Olga Stych . |
| 10 | Luke 's kiss , withheld to torment her for a moment while he stared into her darkened eyes , was an insult when it came , and yet insufficient to her hunger , because his mouth was torn away from hers again almost at once , plunging to suckle hard at one exposed breast for several agonising seconds , the message blatant — she was desired , and despised . |
| 11 | ‘ I have always gone to see her at Kensington Palace — well , I was n't going to see her in a railway siding , was I ? |
| 12 | That ‘ little grey home in the west ’ idea was n't going to fool her for a minute ; it was easy to see that the man sitting next to her loved every minute of his fast-living , action-packed life . |
| 13 | The residents could have been waiting to mug her with a Zimmer frame . |
| 14 | He also said that he found his responsibilities ‘ a very great strain ’ , because his aunt was such a difficult , domineering person , and he would like to see her in a Home — partly because she needed more care and more company . |
| 15 | It was as if some gigantic cork was being used to plug her like a bottle of rare wine . |
| 16 | When he thought about that voice he felt he would like to murder her with a knife himself . |
| 17 | ( And that was another thing — fancy being told to call her by a name which meant in French not only ‘ stepmother ’ and ‘ mother-in-law ’ , but ‘ beautiful Mama ’ too … . |
| 18 | He swivelled to face her with a look of forced tolerance on his face . |
| 19 | Mrs Cummings ' daughter-in-law was similar to , though less antagonistic than , Mrs Kitchener 's daughter , in that she said she found looking after her mother-in-law a strain , that it was time-consuming , and putting a strain on her marriage ; she and her mother-in-law had never got on very well , and she ‘ would like to get her into a Home , ’ . |
| 20 | Then one day , when she came out of school there was a car waiting to take her for a screen test , and something magical happened as soon as she stood in front of a camera , and she became an actress , a real actress not a washed-up joke like her mother , and everyone admired her . |
| 21 | It was winter and I was changing her clothes three times a day and my self-control snapped and I shook her very hard to stop her sitting down without her pants and was so upset by my behaviour and frightened by what I had done that they agreed to put her in a home . |
| 22 | And as she fell she sensed him plunge to meet her like a meteor on fire , heard the sound he made against her sundered throat . |
| 23 | Some connection having been made in his mind , he began to rebuke her for a belief in the reality of Noah 's Ark , which he referred to sarcastically as the Myth of the Deluge . |
| 24 | Three masked men broke into her bungalow , and threatened to beat her with a club . |
| 25 | Mr Dennis said the man put his hand over the girl 's face and mouth and threatened to throw her in a river if she screamed . |
| 26 | I took her by both hands and I started to swing her in a circle , singing as I went , shouting the words of the song over and over again . |
| 27 | He would have to train her to a line . |
| 28 | She thought someone was coming to fetch her in a boat to take her away . |
| 29 | I do n't think I can find her lodgings , but I could try to get her into a home . |
| 30 | The daughter no longer had to provide care but said ‘ I merely go to see her for a chat and the company nowadays ’ . |