Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] her [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Helen 's day was filled by the demands of her young charges and the vain attempts of Mrs Webb to train her in some orderliness in domestic affairs , Edward continued to tend her father 's grave . |
| 2 | She did n't care about anything ; she just wanted Meredith to see her on the back of the Prince 's white charger . |
| 3 | Got Walker to deflower her under this ancient fucking yew tree in Perthshire . |
| 4 | pretty Surrey town on the Thames near London where Estella is sent by Miss Havisham to stay with Mrs Brandley to launch her into society . |
| 5 | Her friend Angela , who worked for Tiller every year in pantomime , asked Jane to accompany her to the stage door of the Hippodrome Theatre , Manchester , to pick up a contract . |
| 6 | She did n't need Maggie to remind her of the odds against a baby 's survival in the alleys , and she loved this one enough to make the ultimate sacrifice . |
| 7 | And when a relief worker asked Nicholson to take her to England , he agreed . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've no doubt he 'll ask Dr Curtis to admit her to a cardiac ward . ’ |
| 9 | She allowed Rachaela to dab her with antiseptic and to apply the plaster . |
| 10 | They then progressed to half-pass ; coming up the centre line and then performing half-pass towards E. Jennie told Katharine to keep her inside leg on the girth , as the horse should bend in the direction of the movement , as opposed to leg-yielding where the horse keeps in a straight line . |
| 11 | The last thing she wanted was for Tom to take her under his wing , to regard her in some sense as his find and his property , but that was what was happening . |
| 12 | Annabel tried to persuade Stephen to join her on a bright-blue canvas swing seat with Charlie . |
| 13 | Spanish police had been asked to find Ms Gibson to tell her about her daughter 's being taken into care . |
| 14 | Mr de Klerk telephoned Mrs Thatcher at the Conservative conference in Blackpool to tell her of the decision before it was announced in South Africa . |
| 15 | She told him to tell Dora she 'd written to Auntie Flo to thank her for the cake . |
| 16 | She orders Victor to accompany her to the head teacher 's office . |
| 17 | It would also give time for Rune to inveigle her into taking up their affair where it had left off . |
| 18 | Etty had her friend Dolly Murchie to assist her in the capture of the three mavericks . |
| 19 | She did not need Jarvis to tell her of the phenomenon of the shivering platform at West Hampstead as a train approaches , that and the singing of the rails , because she was accustomed to the point of no longer noticing it . |
| 20 | ‘ Because I am running out of money , ’ she added , and she crossed her fingers beneath the light blanket which Miss Mates had thrown over her earlier and asked God to forgive her for such dreadful lies , and so many of them . |
| 21 | This is potentially very strong language but it is also a plea to God to remove her from her misery . |
| 22 | Thus it is that the Tamar , beautiful as the nymph whose name she bears , winds her way from the rugged north coast between the hills , to be joined by the Tavy , flowing from Dartmoor to join her for the last few miles to the sea , while the luckless Torridge flows ever northward in vain pursuit of Tamara 's beauty . |
| 23 | She had not yet worn any of the gowns sent by Tamar and was longing for Bob to see her in the blue one . |
| 24 | Finally Lord C had persuaded SOE to meet her in one of their dropping areas . |
| 25 | The woman detective wondered what had driven Christine to phone her at Scotland Yard . |
| 26 | He flicked the corner of his cloak at Izzie to clear her off the table — as if to touch her would dirty his hands . |
| 27 | Such a draconian policy would both weaken Germany and provide resources ( especially coal ) to France to transform her into a heavy-industrial power . |
| 28 | She urged on the days until the chance o f their transfer away , she wrote waspy letters to her mother three times a week , and whenever possible she badgered her Yuri to take her to the shops at Pot'ma . |
| 29 | It is her gallant courage as much as the danger she is in which impels Heritage and his chance-met companion Dickson McCunn to rescue her from her prison and , eventually , to defeat her persecutors . |
| 30 | She needed Julius to make her into a complete person . |