Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] her [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said she could come with him if she did n't want to go on her own and she did n't know how to say no . |
| 2 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 3 | ‘ I assume you made it worth her while in other ways , but obviously I failed to discover from her own fair lips how much you thought she was worth , and I 'm damned sure you wo n't admit how much you 've paid over the odds for her favours . ’ |
| 4 | Well , Bryony wants to sit in her own chair today , so you sit on your own chair . |
| 5 | She tried to cling to her comforting belief that somewhere in the Company was Friend with all that his glow of meanings implied ; the feel of him was still clear in her mind . |
| 6 | This may be a good moment to indicate to her very gently that she has grieved well and long , and that if she is beginning to feel that her period of mourning is nearing its end ( even though you appreciate that she will always carry the scars of her sorrow ) , you are ready to give her any help she needs to adjust to her new and different life . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , having had far too much to drink , Clare woke up the next morning in James 's bed , saw that it was nearly nine o'clock , fled to work in her crumpled clothes but arrived late again . |
| 8 | As she sat and waited for Clelia , she looked out across the park , at the spring trees , and tried to concentrate on her Spanish . |
| 9 | However hard she tried to concentrate on her driving , his nearness was distracting . |
| 10 | On the personal front she has to choose between her one-time fiancé Paul whom she loves but can not marry because he is Catholic and she is divorced , and Bernard , a fellow philologist who attracts her physically but is selfish , emotionally dishonest , and married . |
| 11 | A project support worker visited to help with her personal care and play a safeguarding role at times when other care was not available . |
| 12 | Ex-SACW Muriel Clague ( mo ) , RAF Wilmslow , 1959/60 , wants to hear from her old friends in the PBX |
| 13 | She would still have a spare bedroom , quite enough for the modest entertaining she proposed to do in her widowed state . |
| 14 | Bubbly schoolgirl Claire says she 's had enough of the Cinderella lifestyle forced on her by her natural mother and wants to live with her former foster parents . |
| 15 | The hardest lesson for Gilly to learn is that she and nobody else is responsible for her own actions and that she has to live with her own mistakes . |
| 16 | In 1989 T. moved to live with her paternal grandmother and a year later she went to live with her boyfriend . |
| 17 | After carrying out her duties as a home help in the Fermanagh village of Tempo she slips into her unpaid role as she cooks , cares , does the shopping and provides transport for the many village people who have come to depend on her selfless efforts . |
| 18 | He tried to add to her full glass . |
| 19 | She has to think of her younger sisters , her father may clamp down on what little freedom they had previously . |
| 20 | She looked at Fergus 's dim reflection , distorted in the glass , then tried to re-focus on her own image . |
| 21 | This is one of the reasons she works well with tasks she has to achieve on her own . |
| 22 | Robbed of speech , she tried to protest with her huge , bewildered eyes . |
| 23 | No , the police 'll want to talk to her first , wo n't they ? |
| 24 | She did n't want to talk about her other life . |
| 25 | His fingers seemed to singe against her tender flesh . |
| 26 | Roman 's thickly murmured response seemed to shiver through her very soul . |
| 27 | This feeling was quite different ; in some strange way it seemed to reach into her very soul . |
| 28 | Another girl , who looked wretchedly unhappy and as if she might be going to fade away at any moment , practically had a miscarriage on stage one night as a result of some pills she 'd been made to take by her awful lout of a lover . |
| 29 | Only after considerable thought and a number of false starts had she decided to take for her key reference the mysterious poem called the Enigma Philosophorum from Elias Ashmole 's ‘ Theatre of Chemistry ’ : |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd like to take it , ’ she made up her mind on the spot , not wanting to return to her larger flat and start to have doubts . |