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Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] she [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	According to Gregory the slanders against Fredegund were intended to drive her from the court , thus facilitating the elevation of her stepson , Clovis , to the throne .
2	If Rohan needed to have a private word with her , why had n't he arranged to see her at the house instead ?
3	She was disappointed that he had n't arranged to meet her during the afternoon or even later on .
4	And he had probably expected to see her at the shop this morning , while she had been waiting impatiently at his office .
5	Madonna has often talked of her Ten Year Plan , a route to megastardom designed to keep her in the manner to which she has quickly become accustomed for years to come too .
6	He had come to question her in the manner of someone who comes to peer at a freak in a sideshow .
7	After he had come to collect her at the flat they joined a party of junior officers and debutantes at the Haymarket Theatre to see Pygmalion by the fashionable playwright George Bernard Shaw .
8	One source said : ‘ When Rose arrived in Perth , the old money prepared to accept her around the scene .
9	And he had been a healthy influence on Clare when she most needed it — when that creeping Jesus of a Damien had threatened to infect her with the mildew of his own damp piety .
10	Determined but polite efforts were made to interest her in the purchase of tomatoes , plums , oranges , artichokes , mussels , scallops , chickens and even a swordfish steak .
11	Auntie Nellie only came to visit on special occasions so I expect Dad must have written to invite her to the wedding .
12	After her marriage attempts were made to unseat her from the London School Board because of the alleged illegality of her name .
13	He knew that she was falling in love , and had decided to warn her of the mistake she was making .
14	As she went she remembered that Angela had promised to meet her at the bus-stop .
15	He 'd not offered to help her with the Christmas preparations and she had n't felt like asking him .
16	Her mother and father had had to help her down the steps and into the car .
17	Miss Poraway had at once become tearful and Lavinia had had to take her to the kitchen .
18	The doctor came within the half-hour , and spent some time with Rebecca before deciding that an ambulance was needed to take her to the Marshes .
19	I 've got to take her to the school , her T B scores were up .
20	From America , how earnestly he 'd longed to reach her on the telephone !
21	A gentleman caller had arrived to take her to the ball .
22	Her brother is despatched to accompany her to the police headquarters .
23	I was allowed to see her in the visiting room , but if some of the girls knew you were from C1 they 'd call you muppet .
24	Anon she was not placed in the royal vault ; rather the opportunity was taken to put her in the Villiers vault in 1776 when the neighbouring Percy vault was opened for the reception of the remains of the First Duchess of Northumberland .
25	He did not answer her immediately , just continued to watch her across the table , his blue eyes suddenly as cold as ice .
26	When he was well into his eighties , one of his housekeepers complained he had tried to get her onto the bed — at his age ! ’
27	No one else was allowed to overrule her in the boardroom .
28	Finally it was all over and Kirsty heard the instruction being given to take her to the recovery room .
29	There were photographs of her in the few parts she had been able to play in the years following her marriage ; photographs of her in youth , when her father had begun to launch her on the career which would be interrupted by the coming of Paul .
30	He had begun to coax her in the direction of her room now , the drinks tray left forgotten on the counter-top , and she went along helplessly , carried by the tide of his will and of her own incurable need to be with him .