Example sentences of "[vb infin] her [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he wanted to keep her with him , to help her with her reading and studying , so that he could present her proudly as a lady to his parents . |
| 2 | ‘ Lachlan Cattanach , ’ Farquhar said sternly one day , ‘ will you for God 's sake be either forgetting the lass , or letting me carry her away up the hill for you ? |
| 3 | ‘ You could send her away to a school . ’ |
| 4 | In a moment he let her go , but only so that he might lift her bodily from the ground . |
| 5 | ‘ She 's sedated quite heavily , and the doctor will see her again in the morning to get a more thorough picture of things . |
| 6 | She was particularly fun in the choppier water when we could steer her accurately onto the face of the wave of our choice and drive her through the trough at full tilt . |
| 7 | ‘ If I were you , I should provide her immediately with a clutch of grandchildren to look after , and she can go on being happily the same until the day she dies . ’ |
| 8 | Any minute , she was sure of it , he 'd thrust her roughly to the ground . |
| 9 | While your child is splashing about in the sunshine , be very careful to protect her skin from the sun 's rays , which can still burn her even in the water . |
| 10 | Then he can take her quietly into the conservatory at the same time as Mrs Hampton leaves the dining-room . ’ |
| 11 | In a dream , she saw him reach out and take her possessively by the elbow . |
| 12 | She would not allow it to open up and expose her directly to the moon , and to the distant but approaching dragon . |
| 13 | So when he bought Sarah Byrne the songbird he did n't deliver her straight to the door of the Bradford house of employment just in case anyone should recognize him and pass comment on the fact that he had taken one of the servants out driving . |
| 14 | ‘ I can come and feed her again in the morning . |
| 15 | The only thing she could think of was a request to use the lavatory , but that would tell her little beyond the colour of Veronica 's bathroom suite . |
| 16 | Could you tell her so in a manner she would tolerate ? " |
| 17 | Oh because I did n't tell her enough about the keyboard and , and the |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll send someone for a blanket and we 'll get her there in no time at all . ’ |
| 19 | Ca n't you put her firmly in the past ? ’ she wanted to know . |
| 20 | Though she 'd never worked in insurance , her potential employers thought her smiling manner and evident efficiency would equip her well for the task , particularly as she appeared a quick learner , and did well in the practical assignment they gave her during the period of the interview itself . |
| 21 | We get a glimpse of it when Curtis argues , in support of his view that America should have Near Eastern mandates , that this would place her advantageously for the regeneration of post-revolutionary Russia ; as ‘ steward of the Near East ’ , she could ‘ extend to the blind giant the neighbourly hand of a friendship which is open to no suspicion ’ . |
| 22 | Kim 's mother took this idea further by making some of the activities given to Kim those that would involve her helpfully with the baby . |
| 23 | ‘ You will find her somewhere near the summerhouse , ’ she said , as he rose to leave . |