Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sounded like a question , but he had never intended to wait for her answer . |
| 2 | He said she could come with him if she did n't want to go on her own and she did n't know how to say no . |
| 3 | She obviously does not want to go above her starting weight if she can help it . |
| 4 | She did not want to go to her parents through fear of her father and because she might run into her baby 's father . |
| 5 | As the girls changed for the dance , giggling , excited , she had moments when she thought that she could not do it , that she would prefer to go in her skirt and jersey . |
| 6 | For while your granny may have been content to envelope herself in a cloud of ‘ Tweed ’ each and every morning of her life — never daring to deviate from her ‘ trademark ’ perfume for so much as tea with the vicar — most of us , today , possess a positive wardrobe of perfumes to play with . |
| 7 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 8 | Do n't want to sit on her potty . |
| 9 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 10 | ‘ I assume you made it worth her while in other ways , but obviously I failed to discover from her own fair lips how much you thought she was worth , and I 'm damned sure you wo n't admit how much you 've paid over the odds for her favours . ’ |
| 11 | Fingers that longed to cling curled into her fists as she made to push herself away . |
| 12 | Although I had not intended to work on her aura , my hands began to scan the energy field surrounding her physical body . |
| 13 | They admitted interfering with her gold teeth , but denied she was kept prisoner , made to sleep on the floor with only two sheets and kept without food . |
| 14 | She killed smiling , and there were few who , having seen her kill , wanted even to risk dying at her hands . |
| 15 | Her regular shopping trip to get the food for the Sabbath was something she always enjoyed as the prelude to the best part of the week with its special evening meal , its rituals , her zeide 's stories of his life in Lithuania — no matter how oft repeated — and of course not having to go to work in her father 's store . |
| 16 | We 'd arranged to meet at her house . ’ |
| 17 | The tie of the white gown she had been given to wear caught in her hair and pulled it . |
| 18 | Slowly and stiffly , Iskandara rose from her chair , found her stick and limped to stand beneath her mother 's portrait . |
| 19 | TV comic Roseanne Arnold , who recently had her nose bobbed and her boobs reduced , got to work on her son Jake at a Los Angeles premiere of the Walt Disney movie The Mighty Ducks . |
| 20 | The idea of pursuing a solo career had been in Sharon Shannon 's mind for a long while — but now the time was right she already had a seminal piece of super session recording under her belt and now , with John Dunford — who 'd been centrally involved with The Waterboys throughout their Irish sojourn as sound and recording engineer — in charge of production , she got to work on her solo album . |
| 21 | There is hardly any modern authority which suggests , as did the judges in Clarence , that either a wife can unilaterally in certain circumstances withdraw her consent , or else that the ambit of consent is restricted so that a wife is not deemed to consent to her husband where his conduct is egregious . |
| 22 | Well , Bryony wants to sit in her own chair today , so you sit on your own chair . |
| 23 | She has received for her 1990–91 sabbatical year a Research Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to support her work on a new book on Gottfried Benn 's lyrical poetry . |
| 24 | The juxtaposition of her actions compared to Macbeth 's both before and after Duncan 's murder reveals a great uneasiness which has developed within her character . |
| 25 | In role the teacher enters as a traveller to tell them that she has come from a neighbouring village , where Roman soldiers are delivering a decree that all will have to pay a new tax ; the traveller has to go on her way . |
| 26 | Huntingtower , a story of exotic intrigue , is Ruritanian in tone if not in geography , with the exiled princess imprisoned in an ugly pseudo-Tudor mansion at the instigation of Paul , who needs the jewels she has guarded for her fellow-exiles for his plots against the Evallonian government . |
| 27 | It was ironic , especially as it was he who was causing her world to come crashing about her head . |
| 28 | An inquest has opened on a brilliant student found hanging in her room at an Oxford college . |
| 29 | By Paul Byrne A PREGNANT woman found hanging in her garage had vowed that her husband 's woman friend would move into their home : ‘ Over my dead body . ’ |
| 30 | I bounce a few more cheery sentences off her , but she has withdrawn into her shell . |