Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] she [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | You 'll need to reassure her about the reliability of your products and the good service your shop offers . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | He drove grimly and skilfully and he drove very fast as if he could not wait to get her on the plane to England and out of his sight . |
| 6 | She now hopes that the world will no longer expect to see her on the arm of her husband , hugging or kissing him in public , behaving like a loving wife . |
| 7 | Robert did not like to remind her about the nature of her costume . |
| 8 | Do want to put her in the bed now then ? |
| 9 | I said to him on what grounds did you want to put her in the unit . |
| 10 | Why did everyone want to put her in the wrong when she had done nothing to deserve it ? |
| 11 | Who would want to run her off the road the way the Audi had done ? |
| 12 | He must have heard her at the door . |
| 13 | As a comment on Eve 's lofty nature she notes that the serpent ‘ did not try to tempt her from the path of duty by brilliant jewels , rich dresses , worldly luxuries or pleasures , but with the promise of knowledge … and he found in the woman that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasures of picking flowers and talking with Adam did not satisfy ’ . |
| 14 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 15 | We 'd have seen her at the window long ago , and got her down . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He would have seen her at the races , ’ I said , smiling . |
| 17 | But who could have seen her in the park and reported back this quickly ? |
| 18 | She had a view through the windscreen but no one could have seen her in the back . |
| 19 | But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures . |
| 20 | Just for a moment he met her eyes , his own very dark and filled with something that made her heart start to beat rapidly , high in her throat , yet nothing could have prepared her for the shock of what he said . |
| 21 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |
| 22 | ‘ If she knew about the book , he may have told her about the contents , too . ’ |
| 23 | He could have told her about the IRA kidnapping him , but that would have alarmed her and the whole household . |
| 24 | He reached for his cup , and there was Julian with the flagon lifted , ready to refill both his and Hotspur 's , so silently and impassively that they might almost have dreamed her into the fringes of their conference , but for the fourth cup which had appeared beside theirs , and which she was also filling to the brim . |
| 25 | A good American would have had her in the kitchen with a flue-brush , or making pastry , by now . |
| 26 | We might have got her at the ferry . ’ |
| 27 | And Jonathan would never have recognised her as the girl to whom he had become engaged , the easygoing girl whose only concern had been to have a good time , however much money it took . |
| 28 | Her friends back in London would never have recognised her as the Alyssia Stanley who had dozens of men trailing behind her , and who toyed with them but only for as long as it suited her . |
| 29 | It was n't only because she did n't want to trail damage amongst those who 'd helped her ; partly it was that calculating element in her mind again , that perpetual level of awareness that was tuned to seek out and recognise any opportunity that she could take to keep her in the game and moving . |
| 30 | But Steve would have hit her with the truth — not intentionally , he was n't cruel by nature , but simply with his down-to-earth approach to everything and everyone . |