Example sentences of "[to-vb] she [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alice Perrers 's intimacy with the king began in the 1360s , and she received lavish gifts of jewellery and clothes , together with enough property to establish her as a substantial landowner in her own right . |
| 2 | ( II.iv.42 ) — but proceeds to proposition her with a debased contract , that she should exchange her chastity for her brother 's life . |
| 3 | The story of Gilly Hopkins is very sad : Gilly has the opportunity to gain everything she 's always wanted — someone who cares about her and forgives her and is willing to provide her with a loving home , but Gilly throws all this away simply by writing a letter when she 's feeling very upset . |
| 4 | And it would be nice if you were to provide her with a little brother or sister . ’ |
| 5 | Therefore , three and a half years after the accident , Dawn accepted the amount offered , which was sufficient to pay back the £70,000 her father had spent on her treatment and a specially adapted car , and to provide her with an ongoing income to cover her living expenses . |
| 6 | In 1989 , the wife of the " Yorkshire Ripper " was awarded £600,000 by a jury to compensate her for a false story in " Private Eye " , published eight years previously , to the effect that she had been prepared to sell her story to newspapers . |
| 7 | The words in fact are intended to reflect her night-time , miserable feelings but they only reflect Masefield 's failure to render her as a human being : |
| 8 | Right wing soldiers in the Philippines have written to national newspapers saying they intend to launch a bloodless coup against President Corizon Aquino , and to replace her with a military junta . |
| 9 | ‘ She also told me she is going to ask you to help her in a little project , ’ he said , grinning mischievously . |
| 10 | The Countess of Essex had employed the magician , Simon Forman [ q.v. ] , to secure the love of Robert Carr ( later Earl of Somerset , q.v. ) , the king 's favourite , and to rid her of an unwanted husband . |
| 11 | The crew tried to sail her through a narrow gap at a bridge in Purton . |
| 12 | By then she felt that she had seen enough paintings , churches , marble floors and medieval palaces to last her for a long time . |
| 13 | God knows , I have little enough to give her in a worldly sense . |
| 14 | How ever , there is no doubt in my mind that it would be quite wrong to confine her in a geriatric home among seriously deranged patients . |
| 15 | It would n't be the first time that a man had lovingly supported a woman through crisis only to discover that when she was strong again his own need was to confine her in a dependent role . |
| 16 | ‘ We do n't want to put her under a great deal of pressure after what she 's been through . |
| 17 | I intended at first only to teach her needlework to qualify her for a genteel position , for you see she has a delicacy in her person that makes it a pity ever to put her to hard work , but she masters everything so fast that now I am desirous to have to divert and entertain me in my thoughtful hours . |
| 18 | THE actress Helena Bonham Carter is asking a court to protect her from an obsessive fan who is making her life a misery . |
| 19 | Robbie could scarcely believe this was the same man who was at such pains to keep her at a safe distance , until she reflected that in Fen 's eyes Miss Taylor would present no threat to his reserve . |
| 20 | Oh no , we 'll pay to keep her for a long time |
| 21 | It had been their intention to send her to a finishing school in France or Germany , but she had begged so hard to be allowed to stay where she was , with Breeze and Gay . |
| 22 | But despite her appalling injuries , her parents have fought to send her to an ordinary school . |
| 23 | In 1925 the ship was bought by a Glasgow shipowner who planned to convert her to a nautical museum . |
| 24 | He would take frustrating and puzzling journeys on the serpentine British railways to see her for a snatched fraction of a weekend in a provincial rep . |
| 25 | The fact that ‘ She ’ appears to those privileged to see her as a veiled figure and that her lustrous orbs , dazzling limbs and perfect ankles are revealed with tantalising slowness , has a rather different effect on today 's readers than it no doubt had when the book was first published , very nearly a century ago , in 1887 , to be greeted with a storm of ecstasy or alternatively of appalled disapproval , which lasted for many decades . |
| 26 | And her husband Steve , who had been planning to treat her to a new look for her birthday , wholeheartedly approved of her dramatic transformation . |
| 27 | Quite apart from her reluctance to give her family any more ammunition to treat her like a witless child , Guy Sterne 's arrogant interference had merely burdened Charles and her father with yet another worry to add to their depressing catalogue of troubles . |
| 28 | She , Clarissa , was not looking forward to telephoning Lady Southdown , as she was bound to do , to thank her for a lovely evening . |
| 29 | Consciousness deteriorated and , since the pain ‘ could no longer be relieved ’ , it was decided to kill her with a large dose of opioids . |
| 30 | Part of the parents ' case had rested on the following argument : within the school which the child attended a decision had been taken to include her in a remedial class ; thus , the special educational provision that should be made for her had already been determined ; so a statement ( under section 7(1) of the Act ) should follow . |