Example sentences of "[vb pp] her [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | and she said Con had rung her up to say Kevin is going abroad , the other side of the world |
| 2 | Then he 'd turned her round to admire her . |
| 3 | Whatever had happened , nevertheless , he had not brought the girl back , but had turned her off to go home to her husband . |
| 4 | Mother Francis had shown her how to go up the long windy path behind the convent and pick leaves and wild flowers . |
| 5 | Flora or somebody had told her where to find him . |
| 6 | How many times had I told her not to do it ? — to wait . |
| 7 | And he was certain that the President had told her not to tell anyone where he had gone . |
| 8 | I 'd told her not to worry and that he was one of the lads , although I 'd never seen him before , and we were just waiting for her to go before we started the party . |
| 9 | On the night of 26 April , a nursing auxiliary had noticed Miss Lowe was hot and sweaty but Allitt had told her not to worry , said Mr Goldring . |
| 10 | He forgot that he had told her not to write first . |
| 11 | When she asked him if they had really been as beautiful as angels , he had told her abruptly to look at the portraits , just as now , sensing that she had been hounded out of the house , he had given her something to do , a task to occupy her hands and head . |
| 12 | And nobody had told her how to stop you know . |
| 13 | Deborah Sherwin , defending Miller , said she had sold her home to set up the fish stall at Redcar and Ferryhill markets but when her marriage broke up her husband took over running the stall on the understanding it would provide for their daughter . |
| 14 | It seemed that she was the mother , but her sister , a prostitute , had locked her in to look after her children while she was out ‘ on the game ’ . |
| 15 | She 's a hard , proud girl , and Miss Havisham has brought her up to break men 's hearts , as a revenge on all men . ’ |
| 16 | She has brought her up to make men fall at her feet in love with her and then to treat them roughly and to break their hearts . |
| 17 | We have brought her here to die and we know it . |
| 18 | Maybe he 'd brought her here to act as some kind of pawn in a game he played with Marianne , she realised dully . |
| 19 | And he had found her somewhere to live . |
| 20 | Did he mean to let Ned know that he had not found her up to scratch and then , after so much humiliation , deliver her over to the Dallams ? |
| 21 | I would n't put it past that bitch to have set her up to frame me . ’ |
| 22 | And you 've taught her not to savage the children . |
| 23 | In the two years they had been operating , Stephen had taught her never to lose her temper with the guests , however unreasonable , but to try to win them over . |
| 24 | I also got to hear how she intended to jack in her job at the insurance brokers just as soon as they 'd taught her how to use the word-processor and go and work somewhere interesting like in an ad agency or for a travel agent . |
| 25 | When she had been little , once Fenna had taught her how to fly so that she no longer went wandering off , there had been very little time when she had been left alone . |
| 26 | He has taught her how to handle state occasions , how to deal with foreign potentates , when to speak and when not to , how to manage tiring tours and how to cope with the strains of travel . |
| 27 | If Maisie had taught Beth anything at all , she had taught her how to look after a growing family . |
| 28 | Frank had taught her how to catch . |
| 29 | That fact had aroused her enough to make her display her feminine assets to best advantage . |
| 30 | It was men like Terence Lewis who had spurred her on to get where she was today . |