Example sentences of "[to-vb] she [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She refused the cold remains of the fish and chips , so he took the whole package out to the dustbin at the front of the house ( no need to worry her about the Sweet murder if she did n't know — and it appeared she did n't ) . |
| 2 | She 'd firmly resisted her mother 's oft-repeated efforts to tempt her with the power-packed vegetable which she 'd seen the singing sailor-man so often greedily guzzle straight from the can . |
| 3 | As a comment on Eve 's lofty nature she notes that the serpent ‘ did not try to tempt her from the path of duty by brilliant jewels , rich dresses , worldly luxuries or pleasures , but with the promise of knowledge … and he found in the woman that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasures of picking flowers and talking with Adam did not satisfy ’ . |
| 4 | Assuming that she is asymptomatic , she either depends on the male who infected her to inform her of the diagnosis or , if he does not , wait for the next person with whom she has intercourse to develop symptoms , discover the diagnosis , and then contact her with the bad news . |
| 5 | In the second case , that where the wife agrees to become surety at the instance of her husband though she does not understand the effect of the document or the nature of the transaction , her failure to do so may be the result of the husband 's actually misleading her , but in any case it could hardly ever occur without some impropriety on his part even if that impropriety consisted only in his neglect to inform her of the exact nature of that to which she is willing blindly , ignorantly or mistakenly to assent . |
| 6 | Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place . |
| 7 | He had begun to coax her in the direction of her room now , the drinks tray left forgotten on the counter-top , and she went along helplessly , carried by the tide of his will and of her own incurable need to be with him . |
| 8 | I would need to do more than just win this game , I would need to annihilate her like the cockerel ; more , I would need to break her completely . |
| 9 | France and Belgium were the two lesser industrial powers and although France had been a big eighteenth-century producer of coal , her resources were unable to provide her with the fuel she needed for industry on the German scale . |
| 10 | Of course , where Dorothy was concerned , that was his only strategy if he wanted to secure her in the end . |
| 11 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 12 | There were photographs of her in the few parts she had been able to play in the years following her marriage ; photographs of her in youth , when her father had begun to launch her on the career which would be interrupted by the coming of Paul . |
| 13 | I had to isolate her from the rest . ’ |
| 14 | " If that 's the trouble , you could n't do better than to entrust her to the skilled understanding of the Sisters . " |
| 15 | She was disappointed that he had n't arranged to meet her during the afternoon or even later on . |
| 16 | Benny knew they would come to meet her off the bus . |
| 17 | An RIB ( Rigid Inflatable Boat with a ninety-horsepower outboard engine , capable of nearly forty knots ) races out to meet her with the operations captain and a customs officer on board . |
| 18 | Unionist leaders organized a demonstration against her visit and the Lord Mayor of the city refused to meet her on the grounds that she represented a state which laid claim in its constitution to jurisdiction over Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | As she went she remembered that Angela had promised to meet her at the bus-stop . |
| 20 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |
| 21 | She 's a friend of Bertice Reading , who is working at the Prince of Wales Theatre , so I arranged to meet her at the stage door at 2 o'clock . |
| 22 | My sister 's job was to meet her at the bus stop with the wheel basket so she did n't have to carry it up the road . |
| 23 | It never was when she invited him to meet her at the flat ; she was keeping him and Stock out of each other 's way . |
| 24 | He might even have been planning to meet her at the restaurant direct … |
| 25 | She ignores me , whining about how he was supposed to meet her at the Bullet 's Head . |
| 26 | We fall asleep instantly and do not wake until five-thirty when Crilly 's sister Megan phones , instructing us to meet her at the hospital . |
| 27 | On the morning of the day when Therese Aschmann was due to arrive in Hochhauser , Willi spent a long time getting ready before he went to meet her at the station . |
| 28 | I have to meet her at the airport . ’ |
| 29 | Athelstan rubbed his chin with the palm of his hand and remembered he 'd promised Benedicta to meet her at the Fleet prison where Simon the carpenter would spend his last evening on earth . |
| 30 | One of the cats came to meet her in the wood and accompanied her back into the house . |