Example sentences of "[to-vb] she on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Olga Stych , the wife of a consulting geologist , her next-door neighbour , dared to challenge her on this ; and their homes , which had , until the commencement of building in Vanier Heights , been two of the nicer houses in the best district of Tollemarche , echoed their ambitions . |
| 2 | I was , however , able to reassure her on this point , as I could see no prospects of my ever getting close enough to any American for him to even ask my name , never mind ask me to marry him — and in the 1940 's you did have to wait to be asked . |
| 3 | He had said she was beautiful and called her Felipe 's woman , but obviously the count was not about to enlighten her on that particular score , and as she was not revealing her knowledge of his language she had to let it go . |
| 4 | So it was a husband 's sacred duty not to refuse her on that day even if he were practising celibacy . |
| 5 | She was in time to see the recovery of one of the young gentlemen who had begun to torment her on that night until Colonel Hope had silenced him . |