Example sentences of "[to-vb] her [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were you hoping to catch her stealing the silver ? ’ |
| 2 | She waited until he went to pass her to reach the door and leave at the end of the night . |
| 3 | They coincided with Mrs Yaxlee 's own ideas closely enough for the latter to trust her to do the shopping while at the same time failing to include her in the invitation which she so palpably wanted . |
| 4 | Her immediate antagonism to David Wallington had led Julia to expect her to display a similar hostility to Jack French . |
| 5 | She guessed it would be Nicky Kai , eager to hear her singing the praises of her beloved island once more , and she might be willing to stay and share the light supper she had been planning for herself as it was Sunday , the one evening of the week on which Florian might occasionally make a concession to the fact of his breakfast show slot and retire soon after dark . |
| 6 | This pleased me very much because I was longing to hear her play the instrument . |
| 7 | He had even painted the convent where I had sought consolation in my early homesickness and had agreed with Mother Joseph that I should apply to the Mother House to be accepted as a postulant and return in the course of time , if God so willed , as a professed nun to help her teach the children and grow the herbs and milk the goats and say the prayers in the cool chapel . |
| 8 | And he sends her money home every week , when he 's in the army and he 's not here for to help her get the place sorted out and with the price of everything so dear . |
| 9 | He climbed out of the car to help her lift the load . |
| 10 | His mother called him to help her lift the water pot . |
| 11 | I 've been staying at her place for some weeks now , in order to help her maintain the tight control on her blood sugar that 's so vital , especially in the first three months , but that 's becoming impractical . |
| 12 | You 're going to your object in life is to help her do the job better . |
| 13 | By 2 p.m. that day she was in a very anxious state and accepted the social worker 's offer of a short stay bed on a trial basis to help her make a decision . |
| 14 | The borough 's team hopes to maximise a mother 's chances of continuing to care for her children by providing independent counselling and advocacy to help her survive the investigation intact . |
| 15 | In Britain she 's eligible for legal aid to help her fight the case . |
| 16 | Lucy wanted Jay to help her write the article . |
| 17 | ‘ She has appealed to industrial leaders to help her redress the trade imbalance . ’ |
| 18 | Blanche chewed the last mouthful of spaghetti bolognese to help her absorb the implications of this discovery . |
| 19 | She does not wish to conceal this news as she strongly believes that the mind can play a great part in overcoming such a complaint and she asks everyone to join her in positive thinking to help her to fight the illness . |
| 20 | Evans had taken Gwen 's arm to help her circumnavigate a frozen puddle . |
| 21 | To help her find the area of the floor , Emancia imagines a line which splits up the room into two rectangles . |
| 22 | Jean so enjoyed the challenge of her new job that she asked her husband , Peter , then a watch salesman , to help her move the heavy rolls of fabric , put up shelves and pictures and generally bring some order to the store . |
| 23 | If , however you are going to help her to seek a grant for home improvements , a visit to the local authority environmental health department can be useful , as you and she can receive there an explanation of all the different forms which may need to be completed , and your queries can be answered . |
| 24 | It would be a few weeks convalescent leave for the woman , and Bodie already had ideas as to how to help her spend the time . |
| 25 | That we know because the room was cleaned at lunch-time and the cleaner actually switched on the light to help her see the condition of the table she was polishing . ’ |
| 26 | In the meantime , you should quietly do all you can to help her to feel a part of the life of your local community . |
| 27 | She needed some leverage to help her attack the Op 's ve-hickle . |
| 28 | and she , to help her to run the country she 's got a parliament |
| 29 | He had only managed to persuade her to join the company because her husband had recently left her for an older woman and she needed to get away from London . |
| 30 | They took the form of both the grandmother and father doubting the decision and persuading her to change her mind ; and from medical advisors and social workers seeking to persuade her to keep the child . |