Example sentences of "[v-ing] her [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was unbearably aware of the tensile strength of his incipient beard beneath the shaven smoothness of his jaw , just as she was of the aroused hardness of his body , controlled , contained but testifying to his rampant masculinity in a way that was driving her to abandon the last remaining threads of self-control . |
| 2 | He had already written a note to Becky — with a little help from Father O'Malley — instructing her to sell the shop along with the two barrows if she possibly could and to hold on to his share of the money until he came back to Whitechapel . |
| 3 | To me they were ordering her to have the baby , which was n't fair . |
| 4 | This morning , he would n't take no for an answer , and , after urging her to consider the idea and bringing her out here as confidently as if the whole thing were quite settled in his mind , he was now taking the ground from under her feet by playing devil 's advocate . |
| 5 | He leaped into action , hurling towels at Mrs Morrison and urging her to have the sofa , now it was ruined , for whatever she liked . |
| 6 | The book is said to mention a letter from the Duke of Edinburgh to the princess , warning her to toe the line , and claims the princess was forced to go on the present tour as a publicity stunt to demonstrate the couple 's unity . |
| 7 | His fingers laced themselves in the loose strands of her wet hair , pulling her head back so that her body was arched against him , forcing her to face the feverish gleam in the heavy-lidded grey eyes staring down at her so intently . |
| 8 | Police spent three hours persuading her to leave the car before taking her for counselling at a police station . |
| 9 | The office drivers buying her fierce Singha beer and teaching her to dance the Ramwong , and her library assistants taking her to markets and on river trips , bringing her sticky cakes and jasmine garlands and inviting her to their homes . |
| 10 | With various delicate transitions that left me sighing in assent , the film now turned into a gentle parodic love story , the girl civilizing Spunk — teaching him how to dress , eat , speak — and Spunk decivilizing her : teaching her to kick the booze , the pick-ups , the self-destruction , the money ( they go primitive for a while , after Spunk has an urban breakdown . |
| 11 | I set her the first day to clean the floors starting at the top and expecting her to reach the bottom at the end of the day or at least the last floor , but Ellen she had not managed more than two rooms in eight hours and those not well done . |
| 12 | I 'm not expecting her to do the heavy work . |
| 13 | On the parents ' separation the mother initially left the four children of the marriage with the father in the former matrimonial home but on her subsequently removing one of the children the father applied ex parte for orders , including a residence order , a prohibited steps order and a specific issue order pursuant to section 8 of the Children Act 1989 requiring her to return the child and directing her not to remove any of the children from the father 's care and control . |
| 14 | Both Pen and Ferdinando rushed in immediately the carriage drew up at the door and wonderful was the reunion ; then within the hour the kindest of notes came from Mrs Browning begging her to find the time and energy to visit whenever she was able . |
| 15 | She and her sister both have ponies already and were experienced enough for me to be happy about letting her take the ponies on . |
| 16 | She wheedled him into letting her take the art class … for a consideration , of course . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ That Angy had started an affair with Rodney Shergold , as a kind of quid pro quo for letting her take the art class . |
| 18 | She had badgered her parents into letting her join the Women 's Auxiliary Territorial Service after her eighteenth birthday . |
| 19 | She wants to be Violet Elizabeth Bott ; the screeching , lithping , secretly smart brat who hung around with the nice-but-dim lads until she annoyed them into letting her join the band . |
| 20 | You 've never been higher than Number 42 ’ , but Prof Eno sorted it out by letting her organise the singalong . |
| 21 | Victoria had written to her mother , the Queen , in March asking her to inform the Foreign Secretary , Lord Clarendon . |
| 22 | ‘ I already sent a message to Mrs Ogata asking her to resume the aid as soon as possible , ’ the secretary general said . |
| 23 | Seeing her wrapping the presents and addressing the cards he 'd exclaimed : ‘ Do you need to do all this ? ’ |
| 24 | It 's just so great to be on this beach at last ’ — Ffyona Campbell at Tangier after completing her walk the length of Africa . |
| 25 | Preparing potatoes at the sink with her back turned to the child can be a helpful way of encouraging her to ignore the child during eating . |
| 26 | Encouraging her to tolerate the equipment was quite difficult at first . |
| 27 | Her reward , in the summer of 1556 , was a lengthy letter from Knox , encouraging her to embrace the Protestant faith . |
| 28 | The Irish Supreme Court overruled this , allowing her to leave the country [ see p. 38780 ; the abortion was later reported to have been performed on March 3 ] . |
| 29 | Allowing her to change the subject , he offered , ‘ Shall I meet you in the foyer after breakfast , say nine-thirty ? |
| 30 | Then she remembered he was just using her to get the company , to get her to marry him ! |