Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] she [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And how could she , always so proud , have come to ask a stranger to write for her a private letter , even if her sight was becoming bad ? |
| 2 | But however , it raised my Curiosity very much : And happening to meet with her a Day or two afterwards , I begg 'd the Favour of seeing it ; which was readily granted . |
| 3 | Pitt is obviously a big fan of his girlfriend 's talent and says he hopes to work with her a lot : ‘ Genius is n't a good word , because it 's been so abused , but … ’ |
| 4 | He knew he would be able to work with her the way he like to , not a barnstorming nonstop battle which was the way he had to work with Gesner , but an exciting exploration of just what new heights could be achieved . |
| 5 | The sight of it seemed to provoke in her a torrent of recrimination . |
| 6 | Before they had parted on the Flamingo she had given Ernest the name of the boardinghouse where the Carsons had made arrangements to stay , and he had promised to write to her the minute he and Charlotte arrived at their destination . |
| 7 | ‘ She also asked me to recount for her the circumstances leading up to the car crash in May 1968 in which poor Willy Morpurgo suffered brain damage . ’ |
| 8 | One day he will , and proceed to create from her the perfect dish of a wife and peeress . ’ |
| 9 | But its possession , the sight and weight of it on her key ring , had come to symbolize for her the certainty and the trust of their friendship . |
| 10 | Mr and Mrs Parfitt gave up their jobs to look after her every need . |
| 11 | They said , ‘ Elizabeth , you are wonderful to look after her the way you do ’ , and ‘ Elizabeth , you are wonderful to cook as you do ’ , and ‘ Elizabeth , what would Hywel have done without you ? ’ and ‘ Elizabeth , what a difference you have made to the house ’ , and ‘ Elizabeth , Elizabeth ’ . |
| 12 | The smaller of them seemed to stare at her a moment , then turn to the other and nod . |
| 13 | When he turned his head to look at her the flesh folded underneath the jawbone into the beginnings of a double chin . |
| 14 | I was damned lucky to find her , to bump into her the way I did . ’ |
| 15 | That announcement to W. could , in my judgment , only serve to underline to her the extent to which she is in control . |
| 16 | But she did let slip that she had to curtsey to her every day and say : ‘ Good morning Your Highness . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Clarice Cliff was a hard taskmistress — I had to report to her every day — but she took great interest in the progress of young trainees and her husband , Colley Shorter , the chairman of her company , arranged for me to take day classes at Newcastle College of Art when I was doing National Service with the RAF stationed in Northumberland , ’ he recounted . |
| 18 | Nevertheless she agreed to the luxury of a lie-in the following Sunday morning , even allowing her sister to fuss over her a little . |
| 19 | It had been wickedly symbolic , stage-managed to stir in her a cold feeling of dread . |
| 20 | He 'd have to care for her a lot more than he does to do that . ’ |
| 21 | Ariel soon began to pick up some English , especially from Jack Elsey , a nineteen-year-old from Southwark , who 'd been the cook on the outward journey , and was prompt to learn from her the flavours of the island vegetables and herbs , the edible flowers and fruits he 'd never imagined could possibly exist when he was growing up one of the twelve offspring of a Thames waterman . |
| 22 | And if the queen would not agree to all this , ‘ as is likely ’ , for the ‘ greedy and tyrannous affection of France , then it is apparent that Almighty God is pleased to transfer from her the rule of the kingdom for the weale of it ’ . |
| 23 | The old lady now moved her shoulder to let George Banks , the butler , take her plate away and hand it to Patrick McCann , who was standing behind him , then to place before her a plate he had taken from the sideboard ; and she , after looking down on it , turned her head up towards him and said , ‘ Iced pudding , Banks ? |
| 24 | For if nature is offering a sturdy resistance to man 's efforts to wring from her a larger supply of raw material , while at that particular stage there is no great room for introducing important new economies into the manufacture , the supply price will rise ; but if the volume of production were greater , it would perhaps be profitable to substitute largely machine work for hand work and steam power for muscular force ; and the increase in the volume of production would have diminished the expenses of production of the commodity of our representative firm . [ … ] |
| 25 | I had to convey to her a slight warning , though … ’ |
| 26 | He tries to convey to her the vital importance that their complex relationship has to him as a counterpoint to his work on the New Jerusalem . |
| 27 | They travelled extensively , but he had to pander to her every whim . |
| 28 | Between 1394 and 1396 negotiations continued , and in March 1396 the two sides agreed to a truce of twenty-eight years and the marriage of Richard II to one of Charles VI 's daughters , Isabella , who was to bring with her a large dowry . |
| 29 | She had been sent to an Orthodox Opus Dei school where religious education formed an important part of the curriculum , But , as she explained , she found that religion at her school was only designed to instil in her a sense of fear about sinning . |
| 30 | From that time , he was to direct her education , and to try to instil in her an awareness of statecraft and of the political circumstances and problems not only of her adopted country but of her kingdom . |