Example sentences of "[to-vb] she on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After the series of treaties in 1854 – 58 which helped to launch her on a rapid and irreversible process of change it could even still be questioned whether full-scale diplomatic representation there was worth what it cost . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was here that the great receptions and gala balls took place , though it was not the setting for the traditional New Year 's ambassadorial reception as described by Hubner , which was that of the Throne part played by the Empress , since this was her first appearance at such a function and it thus enables us to observe her on an occasion of high formality : |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In return she showed them the Daimler and invited forty of them to visit her on the Dockers ' yacht , Shemara , where pink champagne was served amid costly fitments which were often detailed in the newspapers . |
| 7 | Mary had been brought up with her story which , for many in the valley — except her own generation , increasingly unable to visit her on the heights she chose for her seclusion — had gone cold long ago . |
| 8 | From America , how earnestly he 'd longed to reach her on the telephone ! |
| 9 | It was good enough however to set her on the way to winning vital experience — and other roles soon followed . |
| 10 | And luck , a commodity the spirited teenager had never been short of , played a crucial part in the events that were to set her on the path to millions . |
| 11 | One day , as I tried to serve her on the quiet , two deep meaningful coughs from behind me raised the small hairs on my neck . |
| 12 | He kept her prisoner in her own home and threatened to electrocute her on a sunbed and burn her with an iron . |
| 13 | The aim with 78018 is to use her on the former Stockton and Darlington , Stanhope and Tyne Wear Valley routes which are used for summer Sunday pacer trains and cement traffic to Blue Circle 's Eastgate Cement Works the current limit of the line . |
| 14 | She had stayed at Thomas a while and now this officer was to put her on a stage for home . |
| 15 | You 'd like that , would n't you , Leith ? ’ he had the unmitigated nerve to put her on the spot . |
| 16 | One woman with this problem , whose rather self-absorbed elderly mother used to keep her on the telephone for hours with doom-laden conversations , solved it by telling her that she had developed migraine which was always triggered off by holding a phone to her ear for more than a quarter of an hour at a time ! |
| 17 | ‘ The best chance would have been to grab her on the way in , ’ the man said . |
| 18 | If you tried to pat her on the shoulder and say ‘ There , there , ’ anything might happen . |
| 19 | He stopped and turned her towards him and tried to kiss her on the mouth . |
| 20 | He slid his arm round her narrow waist and bent to kiss her on the forehead . |
| 21 | He bent down to kiss her on the lips , and Folly felt her head start to swim again as she reached up to place her hand behind his neck , drawing him down . |
| 22 | ‘ I could go out and conquer an entire army , ’ he told her , bending to kiss her on the mouth . |
| 23 | As Seb passed by he placed his hands on her shoulders and leaned over to kiss her on the cheek . |
| 24 | She remembered their birthdays , sent notes of apology to their wives when they had to accompany her on an overseas tours and ensured that they were ‘ fed and watered ’ when she went out with them from Kensington Palace . |
| 25 | So I would congratulate her on her good prospects as a statesman , or she would warn me of the dangers of dancing all night ; but if the stars looked town they would be no more likely to see her on a rostrum than me on a dance-floor . |
| 26 | She now hopes that the world will no longer expect to see her on the arm of her husband , hugging or kissing him in public , behaving like a loving wife . |
| 27 | Well , you are unlikely ever to see her on the screen . |
| 28 | She did n't care about anything ; she just wanted Meredith to see her on the back of the Prince 's white charger . |
| 29 | But when Alice was taken in to see her on the second day , she was sitting up in a swansdown wrap , surrounded by flowers . |
| 30 | The one time they were encouraged to sit her on a chair , after she had scratched her sister , both parents moved over to her and fussed her , talking and explaining to her why they were putting her on the chair . |