Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] she [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the eligible mature men were married already , and it would not be fitting to contract her in a match where she was not the senior wife . |
| 2 | ‘ I have always gone to see her at Kensington Palace — well , I was n't going to see her in a railway siding , was I ? |
| 3 | But now he was going to see her in the flesh . |
| 4 | That ‘ little grey home in the west ’ idea was n't going to fool her for a minute ; it was easy to see that the man sitting next to her loved every minute of his fast-living , action-packed life . |
| 5 | And I was very worried because the lady that was going to be paying for the job was just down there and if we were n't careful we were going to kill her with the wardrobe . |
| 6 | The residents could have been waiting to mug her with a Zimmer frame . |
| 7 | and the fact you 're going to help her with the dinner , huh |
| 8 | Uncle Harry was going to cast her as the hitchhiker in Mondo Desire . |
| 9 | And erm they were going to send her for an interview straight away . |
| 10 | Then it began to dim as he realised , first , that it was Viola Angotti and , second , that he was not going to get her into the garbage can without a great deal of help . |
| 11 | There according to her letter a trap would be waiting to convey her to the Hall . |
| 12 | I was going to threaten her with the law . |
| 13 | Then one day , when she came out of school there was a car waiting to take her for a screen test , and something magical happened as soon as she stood in front of a camera , and she became an actress , a real actress not a washed-up joke like her mother , and everyone admired her . |
| 14 | Their visits to the Expo became less frequent , Fernando now wishing to introduce her to the romance of Seville itself . |
| 15 | They coincided with Mrs Yaxlee 's own ideas closely enough for the latter to trust her to do the shopping while at the same time failing to include her in the invitation which she so palpably wanted . |
| 16 | She thought someone was coming to fetch her in a boat to take her away . |
| 17 | And this goblin came along one day and says to this peedie fairy that like he was coming to get her in the morning . |
| 18 | We dread having to take her to the vets for her nails to be cut . |
| 19 | Undermining his mother 's social prestige was-one thing , having to tell her about the book himself was another . |
| 20 | How could he do this to her — forever turning up when he was least expected and always managing to catch her at a disadvantage ? |
| 21 | ‘ I could go out and conquer an entire army , ’ he told her , bending to kiss her on the mouth . |
| 22 | ‘ André 's looking forward to seeing you next week , ’ Simone interrupted her thoughts , trying to include her in the conversation . |
| 23 | Or was he just trying to provoke her into an argument for the sheer hell of it ? |
| 24 | As he stood at the door trying to persuade her of the importance of other more pressing political issues , one of her cats shot out of the door , into the road and under the wheels of a passing lorry . |
| 25 | But he was n't going to get out of it by trying to put her in the wrong . |
| 26 | Atrimonides was grabbing wildly at her , desperately flailing his hands and feet , and Cheryl realized he was trying to use her as a reaction mass to slow his own fall . |
| 27 | Sooner or later she would have found out for herself , and the interrogation would have been worse still if she 'd thought Rory was trying to keep her in the dark about such a momentous event in her life . |
| 28 | No , he was n't trying to run her off the road ; he was trying to kill her . |
| 29 | When Nora 's dress fell to her knees he pulled her swiftly to him , trying to lift her off the ground . |
| 30 | It certainly was n't because he was trying to save her from a Fate Worse than Death . |