Example sentences of "[verb] her [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want her to talk to me , to tell me stories about her as a little girl , to play with me and look as I play , but she drifts off into herself . |
| 2 | I want to know , and I want her to talk to me . |
| 3 | I want her to check through them again . |
| 4 | Majorie gained B.Litt in 1948 and D.Phil in 1976 , and expresses gratitude to Somerville for enabling her to return to Oxford to work for this . |
| 5 | He has been pressing her to move for some time . |
| 6 | Prince Richard approached then and invited her to dance with him , and she smilingly accepted , feeling like one in a dream . |
| 7 | She was pleased when Marguerite invited her to help with the evening meal . |
| 8 | When he found a small flat in London , he invited her to stay with him ; it had only one bedroom but two beds . |
| 9 | She made friendly overtures , invited her to stay in their large , warm , scenic , colourful , untidy house in Sussex , told Alix to live for herself and look to the future , offered to look after the baby whenever Alix needed a break . |
| 10 | He pulled his craft over to the ferry wharf and invited her to jump aboard which she did . |
| 11 | No one ever invited her to read in factories or schools . |
| 12 | When Charles invited her to dine at Buckingham Palace the Parker-Bowles or his skiing companions Charles and Patti Palmer-Tomkinson were always present . |
| 13 | He spread his hands wide in a gesture of incomprehension and invited her to make of this unexpected turn of events what she could . |
| 14 | As we saw in chapter two , the number and variety of messages with which the main character is bombarded causes her to reflect on the role they play in her daily life . |
| 15 | She is still haunted by the grief of her husband 's death and this causes her to shrink into her own world of deception . |
| 16 | I expect her to preside over the abolition of wages councils and to be strong on industrial training . |
| 17 | And he knew that Marama , because of her title , would always be looked after if she stayed on Koraloona , so it would be wrong of him to be selfish and expect her to live in semi-starvation on a strange island . |
| 18 | I expect her to shout at me , having heard an alternative story from Teddy . |
| 19 | But he certainly was n't going to encourage her to indulge in nerves or old memories . |
| 20 | Before filming was finished , she had left Vadim , her director husband , for Jean-Louis Trintignant , her actor husband in the story , a situation which Vadim took with apparent aplomb as he continued to encourage her to strive for even more realism in his rival 's arms . |
| 21 | September 10th was the Saturday following Heather 's visit to Oxford and thus just when Harry would have expected her to proceed to the Skein of Geese . |
| 22 | He watched her walk away without speaking and enter the hall again ; he had expected her to come to the table to supervise Mary packing up the food . |
| 23 | Given the nature of the business , nobody would have expected her to get in touch . |
| 24 | How had he expected her to react to his betrayal — with laughter , perhaps , or nonchalance ? |
| 25 | They both want to own their loved ones and have their complete faithfulness , but Gatsby wants to earn Daisy 's respect and wants her to choose for herself to belong to him only . |
| 26 | ‘ Loulou wants her to go with him , ’ said Jeannine . |
| 27 | Rachel cheers me up by saying she was leaving anyhow , and if he wants her to pay for the night then she will and to hell with it . |
| 28 | While Kahlo 's art helped her to deal with the vicissitudes of her life , for most audiences it is her life story which allows access to her art . |
| 29 | My aunt , the last survivor of my mother 's family , had lost her sister the previous year , and I helped her to arrange for the sale of most of the contents of her house , and for her own establishment in a club . |
| 30 | He managed to keep working , paid for his board and lodging , helped her to look after the handicapped boy and did a few jobs around the house . |