Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] her [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at her now , sitting there like a bird with a broken wing , and was torn between wanting to give her a hug and a kiss , as he would with Anna when she 'd fallen and hurt her knee , and a rather more powerful instinct for self-preservation that urged him to climb into the airing cupboard and pull the door shut after him . |
| 2 | … The prince going to see her every day . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's going to buy her a new typewriter ; that old thing she practises on makes a noise like a candyman 's trumpet . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's waiting to give her a breathalyser if she comes round , ’ I said under my breath . |
| 5 | ‘ Any damages are not going to give her a holiday in the Caribbean . ’ |
| 6 | He was going to give her a job . |
| 7 | Those two were going to give her the creeps if she really had to take them all the way to Titan . |
| 8 | He sat back down next to her , but he still did n't look at her , and she had a sinking feeling that he really was going to tell her the truth about Nicole , but it would not be to her liking . |
| 9 | The fact that it all seems to come so pat : on top of the row with Viola , just after the publication of the book , just when the second book was going to bring her a lot of money . |
| 10 | The glare from the sun was beginning to give her a headache , and she wished that she had never undertaken this ridiculous trip . |
| 11 | Suddenly she realized that her phobia was beginning to make her a prisoner in her own home , and that it was about time she sought help in overcoming it . |
| 12 | He possibly through guilt at not stopping to give her a lift , though she had n't asked . |
| 13 | It then took me an hour as she lay there sobbing to find her a bed . |
| 14 | He got to his feet , leaving a handful of coins for the bill , then came round to her , bending to give her a swift , hard kiss on the mouth before striding off . |
| 15 | ‘ I mean I 'm hoping to sell her a gorgeous blanket chest I discovered two weeks ago in Shropshire . ’ |
| 16 | I was hoping to buy her a ring for Christmas but we just could n't afford it . ’ |
| 17 | Everyone , save Babs Osborne , understood that her Polish lover was trying to give her the push . |
| 18 | After agreeing to give her a lift home from a discotheque , PC Peter Anderson was said to have stopped his Metro car on a deserted allotment , and threatened the 18-year-old woman by pushing his truncheon under her chin . |
| 19 | The woman has alleged that after agreeing to give her a lift home from a discotheque , the officer drove her to a deserted allotment , threatened her by pushing his truncheon under her chin and then raped her . |
| 20 | And while relief surged through her that this kind stranger was , by the look of it , offering to give her a lift back to her hotel , he turned to the mechanic , gave him some instruction and , turning back , informed her , ‘ They 'll get the part as quickly as they can , but in the meantime we will have to leave your vehicle here . ’ |
| 21 | In 1862 he sent a letter to Queen Victoria , requesting her assistance against the Turks and offering to send her an envoy with presents . |
| 22 | STEPHEN Jones indecently assaulted a 10-year-old girl in a Cardiff park after offering to show her a birds ' nest . |