Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] she [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that he had never asked the man if he 'd been able to fix the problem , Folly suddenly realised , was proof enough that the supposedly leaky tap was just an excuse to provide her with a chaperon . |
| 2 | He smiled encouragingly , and Juliet was gratified by his attempt to include her in the conversation . |
| 3 | Jake leaned forward in his seat to fix her with a look . |
| 4 | You 'd like that , would n't you , Leith ? ’ he had the unmitigated nerve to put her on the spot . |
| 5 | I am also writing to at the South Side Association to notify her of the developments . |
| 6 | When Annie Besant was prosecuted with Charles Bradlaugh for publishing The Fruits of Philosophy , a book of contraceptive advice in 1877 , she faced public abuse and insinuations about the immorality of her private life , culminating in the successful attempt to deprive her of the custody of her young daughter . |
| 7 | They enjoyed teasing Liz about her pretensions , and rarely had an opportunity to tease her in the presence of Charles . |
| 8 | She had also found herself a sponsor to support her to the tune of £100 a year . |
| 9 | Luke came round the car and took her arm in a firm grasp to lead her through the gate and up the path to the front door . |
| 10 | For this reason above all others she had come very close to declining Philip Swallow 's proposal to nominate her for the Shadow Scheme . |
| 11 | At 2200 the casualty refloated herself under her own power , but as the rudder was jammed the lifeboat came in again to secure a towline from the casualty 's bow to keep her off the sand . |
| 12 | Over the years it had become apparent that Constance considered Brian a person of little consequence and that , this being the case , she would not have minded if he had hired the Albert Hall to denounce her as a barbarian and certainly cared nothing for his kitchen sulks and drawing-room sarcasm . |
| 13 | A patrolling MTB picked them up , and Bob Smith later launched the battered canoe to paddle her across the harbour to the submarine base . |
| 14 | With his usual lightning-swift reactions he took advantage of the moment to pull her from the bed , and as she stumbled against him , his arms tightened about her involuntarily . |
| 15 | Rain wondered whether she had the cheek to install her in the Antibes flat borrowed from her newspaper colleague . |
| 16 | As baby Odessa 's condition deteriorated they were forced by the war to leave her in a hospital in Belgrade . |
| 17 | The first thing to do , if you are embarking on helping an elderly parent who lives alone , is to make sure that she ( or he ) knows that you have a genuine desire to assist her in every way possible ; and then respect her right to make either a positive or negative response to your overtures . |
| 18 | It was my job to bury her in the church . |
| 19 | She used Rosalind 's flashlight to take her across the kitchen 's frayed linoleum to the corridor . |
| 20 | No matter what undercurrents had passed between them last night , it had been true enough that it was la Principessa who 'd sent her grandson to collect her at the Sala dell'Arte . |
| 21 | The war was just over , and she was climbing aboard an RAF transport to take her to the demobilisation centre . |
| 22 | And then , after I 'd gone round to Tesco 's I went to see to collect grandma to take her to the train . |
| 23 | Nor was there the slightest need to tell her of the thoughts that were uppermost in his mind . |
| 24 | Yet if Elizabeth relied more heavily than her predecessors on direct taxation to carry her through the years of peace , she showed a greater reluctance than her father to squeeze the country heavily in times of war . |
| 25 | Her emotions felt fragmented ; all thought of a businesslike façade to carry her through the afternoon seemed meaningless . |
| 26 | When she was first looking for rooms to rent , she had to pretend to be Yoruba rather than Ibo in order to persuade a Nigerian landlord to accept her as a tenant . |
| 27 | ‘ Of course nothing can be formally arranged just at this present , ’ went on Miss Merchiston , and Theda almost laughed out to see the burgeoning hope in the poor man 's face , ‘ for with dear Mama in this sad condition , I could not reconcile it with my conscience to leave her in the care of other hands . |
| 28 | Then he put a hand on her elbow to guide her to the door . |
| 29 | Tracey laughed , and put his hand under her elbow to guide her into the cinema . |
| 30 | With the watery light in imminent danger of failing , we wedged our empty mugs in the sink , dropped the dock lines and took Islander out into Southampton Water to put her to the test . |