Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] her [to-vb] the " in BNC.

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1 And yet , even as determination rose within her to right the wrongs that had been done her father and to make the name of Thomas Grenfell respected again in Swansea , she was trembling with fear .
2 iv ) The mother in a nuclear family may come to play a pivotal role in all major expenditure decisions , especially if the husband relies upon her to manage the household budget .
3 To Lan 's astonishment her father signalled for her to approach the altar next ; as she was the youngest she had expected to go last , but her father was clearly singling Kim out for special treatment by allowing her to precede him .
4 But nor was it every day that in broad daylight — given that the light was n't all that good — that she stood in what was now quite heavy rain getting soaked while her amorous swain waited for her to make the next move .
5 A lorry driver signalled to her to cross the road .
6 So the refuge arranges for her to visit the housing department , and later that day to meet a housing association official who will come to the refuge .
7 An officer went with her to recover the knife from her flat although , like the others , it bore no clues to its sender .
8 Rather more elaborately , Sandra Harris ( 1984 ) collected courtroom data , using obvious situational constraints on discourse to enable to her to examine the form and functions of questions ( cf. 3.2.1 ) .
9 The only movement from the reader was the lifting of the hand every now and then to turn over a page , and Mrs Phelps always felt sad when the time came for her to cross the floor and say , ‘ It 's ten to five , Matilda . ’
10 So it is believable that , up to the moment when the time came for her to sign the transfer , she knew nothing of it .
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