Example sentences of "[verb] her [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was tired , emotionally and physically tired , and the champagne made her cease to worry about whether she was right to allow the Burgermeister to cosset her with flowers and champagne . |
| 2 | He did have a habit of railroading her into things , but she knew she would be crazy to refuse . |
| 3 | This , Emecheta explains , is a very strong goddess of the Ibos , so strong that Hausa soldiers dare not attack her for fear of being made impotent . |
| 4 | Miss Maynard 's invitation had caught her off guard . |
| 5 | And because , somehow , Luke Hunter had caught her off balance with his flowers and cryptic messages . |
| 6 | He 'd caught her by surprise , that was all . |
| 7 | She said Suzanne had telephoned her from Germany . |
| 8 | He thought she was worrying about Midge 's reaction to the news when they had telephoned her from Richie 's flat . |
| 9 | She had been no worse and no better than the three women who had preceded her in Alexandra 's life , all driven away in the end by the isolation and the powerful ghosts . |
| 10 | ‘ Well I want her of course , who would n't ? ’ , |
| 11 | ‘ She 'll do , I only want her for breeding , ’ the nasty woman said . |
| 12 | She 'd aroused suspicion in some member of the staff and they 'd reported her to Brückner 's widow . |
| 13 | as if he 'd read her mind Penry took a cross-country route instead of the motorway , driving her through Carmarthen and Llandeilo , then on past Brecon to head for Leominster . |
| 14 | His constant invasion of her privacy was driving her to distraction . |
| 15 | Helen was driving her to suicide , I could see that . |
| 16 | MUM-TO-BE Lynne Adams , 36 , gave birth to a girl on the M5 yesterday as husband Phil was driving her to hospital in Taunton , Somerset . |
| 17 | The police were driving her around Soweto , wanting her to identify key activists . |
| 18 | Yet something of the Parish 's strange reputation lingered into the twentieth century ; it may still be said of a headstrong woman , ‘ send her to Temple Moor ’ . |
| 19 | She had thought that , difficult as her father was , he would see the reasonableness of her ambitions and send her to London with some sort of blessing . |
| 20 | ‘ Take her away from Woodborough Junior and send her to St Saviour 's . ’ |
| 21 | Therefore I compromise and send her to Calcutta with her grandmother and suffer pangs of guilt both for packing her off and for conforming to my elitist background . |
| 22 | The Goldsmiths referred her to Sir Edmond 's will , and she withdrew . |
| 23 | And , while her mother had recommended her to Romano de Sciorto , she knew that he 'd run a thorough , ruthless check on her credentials through his London contacts . |
| 24 | Head will write to mother arranging a meeting during last week of term to inform her of details , also Social Worker . |
| 25 | ‘ That was only because you were tearing her to pieces . |
| 26 | She struggled not to run screaming from the office , seeing the trip ahead , knowing what would happen , that desire , that overpowering excitement flaring up between them in a hotel bedroom somewhere on the other side of the world , dragging her deeper into a relationship that was already tearing her to pieces . |
| 27 | Carolyn Bartholomew who visited her at Kensington Palace three days after William was born recalls : ‘ She was thrilled with both herself and the baby . |
| 28 | THE PRINCESS of Wales met one of her heroines when Mother Teresa of Calcutta visited her at Kensington Palace . |
| 29 | When the traveller Mary Kingsley [ q.v. ] visited her at Ekenge in 1895 , she found Miss Slessor ‘ has lost most of her missionary ideas and bullies the native chiefs in their own tongue … and is regarded by the other missionaries as mad and dangerous ’ . |
| 30 | Her parents visited her in October and photographs and videos from their trip will be shown at the Methodist Church on February 12 . |