Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Belief in some prancing horned beast who conjured up all the mischief in the world strained her tolerance to the limit . |
| 2 | She might as well have addressed her request to the tablecloth . |
| 3 | This woman has been prosecuted four times for failing tio send her daughter to school . |
| 4 | Laura , who had a horror of pubs , dedicated her life to improving home comforts . |
| 5 | Mary was married but with her husband 's cooperation dedicated her life to God . |
| 6 | Then she went on and dedicated her song to all those men here tonight who are still hunting , all of those who are unhappy in love , all of those who are putting up with second best , all those who are not getting what they want . |
| 7 | She dedicated her song to all the boys who had really regretted doing it , all the men who have ever said , naming no names , it took ten years of my life , and now I can truly say that I never want to even talk to him again , never to see him . |
| 8 | ’ … and , so I will enjoy her this night before explaining her position to her in the morning . |
| 9 | Ms Siobhan Fahey ( see below ) has been explaining her emigration to the south of France . |
| 10 | She fears that its plans will confine her sex to a social ghetto |
| 11 | There was of course Ferdinando , but she hesitated over opening her heart to her husband , who would in any case need her letter read to him and would be unable to answer of his own accord . |
| 12 | Contrary to Cissie 's opinion , she herself was glad that David had stopped her from opening her heart to this impressionable young girl . |
| 13 | But as they made their way towards the camp he had spoken only to point out signs of bird and animal life that he thought might interest her ; in the mud at the riverside , he showed her the pug mark of a tiger that had drunk there the previous evening and at another point on the trail he drew her attention to torn-up grasses and leafless trees that marked the passing of a herd of elephant . |
| 14 | The snorting of a horse drew her attention to the right , and she saw Scathach 's stolen mount , roughly tethered . |
| 15 | When she was about to move forward though , ready to go up to that front door and ring the bell , some sound drew her attention to the corner of the house . |
| 16 | If you think I will respect her honour to the point of releasing her , you much mistake the matter ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Would you describe her character to me , as you see it ? ’ |
| 18 | Rain narrowed her choice to three pieces . |
| 19 | She narrowed her compass to just Sarah and Sam . |
| 20 | The modern equivalent of Mary Queen of Scots might well be the unsuccessful businesswoman who owes her position to her family , and therefore profoundly irritates women who are achieving success — against the natural order of things . |
| 21 | She owes her position to her father 's services to the Prince many years ago . ’ |
| 22 | But Demelza reckons she even owes her life to Joe , 38 . |
| 23 | It caught her straight across the neck and she probably owes her life to the fact that the drainpipe snapped . |
| 24 | PARAMEDIC Moira Moore is trying to work her passage to Australia to attend an emergency care seminar which , she said , could benefit Cleveland ambulance service . |
| 25 | It is the ‘ heaps of fantastic things ’ in the old curiosity shop which , by making her exist in a kind of allegory , suggest her story to him , ‘ holding her solitary way among a crowd of wild grotesque companions ’ . |
| 26 | Anna had dropped her voice to a whisper . |
| 27 | APENALTY of nine places against the Australian yacht Prime Factor has dropped her team to third overall in the NorTel Southern Cross Cup series and lifted Britain to second . |
| 28 | Amelia Putt had dropped her objection to the wedding of one of her employees taking place in chapel and not church when she learned the identity of Tom 's bride-to-be . |
| 29 | They had lit upon Sarah Ferguson instead , who was hotly tipped to be announcing her engagement to Prince Andrew any day , and her appearance in Klosters was their dream come true . |
| 30 | In April Bavadra resigned as chairman of the Labour Party after announcing her engagement to Clive Speed , an Australian businessman . |