Example sentences of "[verb] her [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day found her driving round the busy , bustling city of Sheffield , desperately trying to keep one eye on the traffic , and the other on the directions scrawled on a piece of paper . |
| 2 | It was an impressive narrative , and impressively narrated ; Clara found her craving for the bizarre and the involved richly satisfied . |
| 3 | He managed to keep working , paid for his board and lodging , helped her to look after the handicapped boy and did a few jobs around the house . |
| 4 | Alex recounted her meeting with the young painter and they laughed together . |
| 5 | Instead she 'd accepted his suggestion to show her more of the island of Zealand , and had been enchanted by everything , painfully aware that the spell which had entrapped her emanated from the powerful persona of the man beside her as much as the natural beauty of the surrounding countryside . |
| 6 | Let him picture her pottering in the improvised chaos of a damp , windowless room … |
| 7 | She reminded me that I was a married man — forbade me to approach her or speak to her again in that way , but at the same time I knew I had made her think about the old days — the attraction we 'd had for each other which she could not deny . |
| 8 | Ludens told her to go to the British Museum and the National Gallery , which she did , though declining his offer to ‘ show her round ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I told her to go into the other room- and say she thought he was going to be in there . |
| 10 | He had seen her sitting at the high table among the other ladies of noble birth who served the Empress . |
| 11 | you 'd just gone , it 's a wonder you did n't see her coming round the bloody corner . |
| 12 | Now she had developed a self-assurance and experience which allowed her to perform on the public stage . |
| 13 | Huy tried to imagine her going through the simple ceremony with someone else , and could not . |
| 14 | Walking across to her , she turned her to look in the full-length mirror . |
| 15 | She 'd already seen Il-Maltija , a country dance which Roman had told her began in the royal courts of the eighteenth century . |
| 16 | Get her to sit on the bottom stair and put them on , as this way she 'll have better access to the fastening . |
| 17 | Still , even when Grigorovich refused three years ago to let her guest at the Royal Ballet , she did what she was told . |
| 18 | Germany interpreted her constitution as forbidding her to participate in the military operation , and Belgium refused to sell ammunition to the British army . |
| 19 | She said ‘ hello ’ to you ’ ) , teaching her to eat in the proper way ( ‘ Close your mouth when you are eating and do n't gulp your food ’ ) , and so on . |
| 20 | And then Sue tell her to go to the giro place . |
| 21 | Sara looked sulky and left them to it , and they heard her calling to the old lady with rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 22 | This qualified her to play in the Scottish final at the new course at Westerwood , Cumbernauld . |
| 23 | Probably he knew only that Jehana objected to the idea of marrying Artai , and had been told that her family wished to avoid giving offence by rejecting the suit , and so were willing to see her contracted without the preliminary of a courtship . |
| 24 | Unable to sleep he had drawn back the front flaps of his hut to watch the spectacular storm and had been startled to see her dashing across the flooded clearing in the glare of the lightning flashes . |
| 25 | Her parents and sisters were sympathetic but expected her to conform to the existing status quo . |
| 26 | ‘ You see , ’ I overheard her say through the half-closed door , ‘ I told you he could be useful . ’ |
| 27 | Old Black Hannah put in an appearance , and one or two other women from the village who remembered Martha as a child , and who , perhaps , shared her liking for the Old Faith ; but apart from them , it was just Mr Drew ( who galloped through the service as fast as he could ) , Jennifer and the two gravediggers , who came in after the blessing and carried the coffin out underhand , dumping it without much reverence into the mortice they had prepared for it . |
| 28 | That was when Ruth got to know her better , and to like her better ; and a few months later , Cousin Saul had married Gloria , taking her to live at the ramshackle old warehouse on Cyclops Wharf . |
| 29 | One morning , on his way down to breakfast , Dada saw her kneeling on the left-hand flight of the double staircase ; thinking she was saying her prayers , she was bent so low , Dada stepped past her politely . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , nothing sent her to sleep like the human voice , and , struggle as she might , she kept dropping off , then waking with a start . |