Example sentences of "[to-vb] she [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , they consulted an educational psychologist who advised the parents that , in view of their constant travelling Emma 's needs would best be served by a boarding school to provide her with some stability . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The vision of the vain , silly girl she had been seemed to accuse her in some obscure way . |
| 4 | It was as if he wanted to destroy her in some way . |
| 5 | Now they have aerial wires attached to the masts and they made me think they must intend to use her for some sort of electronic surveillance . |
| 6 | One minute he was kissing her as if he never wanted it to stop , and the next he was trying to protect her in some cryptic , jaded way from a danger that seemed clear to him but was a mystery to her . |
| 7 | I remembered that I had promised to see her about some poems she had written and had nervously asked me to read . |
| 8 | There was also fear that he was going to punish her in some unpleasant way for Jason 's actions , and other , deeper fears that even now she refused to acknowledge . |
| 9 | And there was a vigour about him , a brightness of eye , an easiness about the way he held himself , that almost seemed to threaten her in some indefinable way . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Was there an intention to try to blackmail her in some way as well as Derek ? |
| 12 | St Matthew 's seems to suit her for some reason . |