Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] her [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 7 It 's terrific to see her without the bars between us. 8 She sits eating the treat food at the opening to the door and looking at me. 9 How does she know to look into my eyes and not at the huge finger next to her . |
| 2 | I thought it would be much easier to see her in those sort of surroundings . |
| 3 | This rarity — for a woman to have so much power and influence — caused some to compare her to Elizabeth . |
| 4 | Edward VI had n't reached sixteen years of age before he died , in July 1553 , and for just nine days Lady Jane Grey was considered to be Queen Jane , but the country was not prepared to accept her as Queen . |
| 5 | The story of Gilly Hopkins is very sad : Gilly has the opportunity to gain everything she 's always wanted — someone who cares about her and forgives her and is willing to provide her with a loving home , but Gilly throws all this away simply by writing a letter when she 's feeling very upset . |
| 6 | Greenfield herself provides some evidence that the test situation was not entirely culture-free although she does not allow this to restrict her from making large inferences from the results . |
| 7 | ‘ Would n't it be easier to install her in a flat ? ’ |
| 8 | But Matthew Blake did not seem prepared to let her off the hook so easily . |
| 9 | But Ven , she discovered , was not prepared to let her off the hook , and , ‘ Why … ’ he began to challenge , ‘ … when you 're honest , I know it , yet have begun on a path of deception to one particular end — why , when it 's so important to your sister whom — you love … ’ an alert look suddenly came to his eyes , and he broke off for a brief moment before continuing , his serious dark eyes holding hers ‘ … a sister whom you 'd do anything for , as you proved when you left England and came here — why are you ready to leave now , without another thought ? ’ |
| 10 | They wanted to free Sycorax without further delay , and Ariel too , though some doubted her allegiance , and were willing to abandon her for carrying the stranger 's child . |
| 11 | How ever , there is no doubt in my mind that it would be quite wrong to confine her in a geriatric home among seriously deranged patients . |
| 12 | Dr Neil — she could not think of him as Neil — was careful to hold her in such a way that she felt no restraint , although his own self-control was slowly beginning to slip . |
| 13 | He had been afraid to lay her in her cot because she had wind , a Manchester inquest heard yesterday . |
| 14 | She could almost hear him making the effort to be cheerful , as if he was afraid to disappoint her in case she decided not to ring him again . |
| 15 | He was quite prepared to crush her in his desire to force her into seeing what she did not wish to see . |
| 16 | Whatever the reason for John 's shutting her out , it seemed he was not prepared to tell her about it . |
| 17 | But that night she had knelt in her cell through the long , dark hours , begging the Almighty to forgive her for her envy and sadness . |
| 18 | We were delighted to see her at our last Qualified Teachers ' Day . |
| 19 | It would be incongruous to see her as an influence on later writers who may never have heard of her . |
| 20 | If it was agreeable with Ellie , he would be delighted to escort her to dinner and the opera on Saturday . |
| 21 | Those days seemed such a very long time ago , and seeing Alice now , so chic , so elegant , it was almost impossible to remember her in her grey-and-white-striped uniform and white cap , calling Madeleine ‘ Miss ’ and Aubrey ‘ Master ’ ! |
| 22 | Would he be content to leave her in charge of Thomas and merely check on his progress from time to time , or might he endeavour to wield control in her — his — their son 's life ? |
| 23 | It 's impossible to recall her without a smile , or a good word , or the suggestion that even the office reprobate we 've had one or two was ‘ canny ’ . |
| 24 | In the early stages he was content to keep her towards the rear of the field as Teleprompter — also attempting a mile and a half for the first time — took his accustomed role of front-runner . |
| 25 | For instance , if I have a student in my class old enough to be my mother , is it appropriate to call her by her first name ? |
| 26 | ‘ I had a figure to go to and I 'm delighted to get her at the price . ’ |
| 27 | My daughter , who was six years old at the time , was delighted to be sleeping in Mummy 's bed and I was delighted to have her with me . |
| 28 | You like my mother and yet you will be content to dismiss her from your life ? ’ |
| 29 | It would be easy to dismiss her as nothing more than a minor accessory to ben Issachar 's crime against me : these women stay in the background , mind their own business over the cookpots and the infant 's cot , keep themselves out of public view . |
| 30 | Maria Edgeworth [ q.v. ] mentions , in 1802 , that Watts had sold a four-volume novel ( untraced ) to William Lane [ q.v. ] for ten guineas and that Richard Lovell Edgeworth [ q.v. ] doubted her talent too much to recommend her to the publisher Joseph Johnson [ q.v . ] ; |