Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] her [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was able to go to see her in hospital . |
| 2 | Julia 's pain seemed to have left her , and she lay seeming to drift in and out of sleep or unconsciousness , Anne could never be sure which , as she sat beside her , wiping her face , or tried to feed her with beef tea from a feeding cup . |
| 3 | Mr Spencer said : ‘ Nichol was sexually attracted to Mrs Chandler and probably tried to engage her in conversation . |
| 4 | He discovered the girl 's name was Stella and tried to engage her in gossip . |
| 5 | The awful truth of Penny 's childhood and young womanhood is that the abuse never ended — and someone with the right counselling skills has to help her to unburden herself . |
| 6 | Each time Thomas or Carlo tried to draw her into conversation , the words dried on her lips . |
| 7 | Fred Bradley stayed very much in the background and his soft , kind eyes helped to put her at ease . |
| 8 | But however much he hated the thought of allowing Sara to commit herself to a man she had never met , he knew her too well and loved her too much to try to keep her at home against her will . |
| 9 | Roman bent to kiss her in greeting . |
| 10 | What she would do if he tried to take her to bed . |
| 11 | In parting we arranged to meet again , next time in London , and I promised to take her to dinner at her favourite restaurant , the Trocadero on Shaftesbury Avenue , just a stone 's throw from Piccadilly Circus . |
| 12 | Cleverly she used the mirror from her powder compact to watch the unholy trinity of James Whitaker and rival photographers Ken Lennox and Arthur Edwards as they tried to capture her on film . |
| 13 | The defending solicitor tried to fault her on identification but she described the car as having a metallic paint job , wide wheels and a number of triangular stickers in the rear window ; she also thought that she could remember a couple of fluffy dice hanging from the rear-view mirror , and she gave the first three letters of the registration number . |
| 14 | When Anna was three years old it was decided to put her in foal , but many nose twitches , injections , and rectal examinations later , she was still not pregnant ; so she was sold . |
| 15 | What was it about him that seemed to knock her off balance this way , making her act so strangely out of character ? |
| 16 | Caspar came to collect her before supper . |
| 17 | She was usually so confident when dealing with even the most difficult of guests on the Day-to-Day programme , but there was just something about Luke Calder that seemed to throw her off balance . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm going to see her at lunch time . ’ |
| 19 | He hated to see her with blood on her hands . |
| 20 | Just because he 'd said he would like to see her in red . |
| 21 | My previous assistant left without notice due to domestic reasons , and I 'd like to replace her without delay . ’ |
| 22 | Then I 'm going to give her to mummy yummy for a feed . |
| 23 | Phoebe was not going to devour her in love and thus keep her safe from the great fangs and wraths of Fenna . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't like to leave her at night . |
| 25 | With a slight shake of his head Travis walked inside , turning to keep her in view as she closed the door again . |
| 26 | One depicts Mary 's first husband , Francis II , three times rushing to welcome her in heaven , and three times finding that he can only embrace a headless body , so that he curses his people ; whereupon the poet exhorts them to forget their own troubles , and unite to destroy England and send its queen to a dreadful death . |
| 27 | Ironically , the rescue craft which arrived to haul her to safety was the boat she was helping to pay for . |
| 28 | ‘ We would like to have her at home . |
| 29 | She loved Sharpe , yet she saw in her lover the embodiment of those ghouls who had been used to scare her into childhood obedience . |
| 30 | But I heard only this morning the story of an Arab girl whose parents have had to remove her from school because she was receiving threatening messages . |