Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] her [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he asked to see her in his study , a few days after her return from Blaworth , she feared the worst . |
| 2 | But after he had left them Rain wondered whether Shildon might not want to see her about his MacQuillan inquiry , a matter other events had put out of her mind . |
| 3 | After work the same evening , my husband and I walked all over the golf course and were eventually rewarded by spotting the dog in the distance , although we failed to coax her towards us . |
| 4 | She went to sleep , and woke to growl , ‘ Me least , ’ and he put a bath towel round her and tried to carry her into his bed-sitting room , but he was too frail to do it and she had to wake up again to walk by herself . |
| 5 | He tried to pull her to him . |
| 6 | She saw a small coffee shop on the other side of the lane and , taking Dana 's arm , tried to pull her with her . |
| 7 | nice way of saying if you want to help her with her maths sheets please do . |
| 8 | He tried to warm her with his body but he was so cold himself he did n't know if it would work . |
| 9 | We had to move from Renishaw Road to a smaller house in Thorne Road at the other end of Nottingham , a move dictated by financial considerations , but which in a way pleased Mother as it helped to distance her from her old set of friends . |
| 10 | He 'll meet her to try to turn her against me , ’ shouted Moran . |
| 11 | She never shared her inner thoughts with anyone , not even her friends at school who had come to regard her as something of an enigma . |
| 12 | He tried to take her in his arms , but she pulled away . |
| 13 | As she wound down her window to scream for help , one of the youths then tried to drag her from her car . |
| 14 | Nigel tried to confront her with her little secret that evening . |
| 15 | She wished she had listened when Doc Threadneedle tried to tell her about her brain . |
| 16 | It was all Wilson could do to thank her for her concern . |
| 17 | He looked mulish now , with his hard-eyed expression that she dreaded , that seemed to treat her as nothing . |
| 18 | Within moments I had decided to strip her to her expensive banker 's underclothing , lash her to a Quattrocento day-bed with fur-lined leather manacles , and whip her with unimaginable delicacy until she handed over a full power of attorney and yielded herself totally in a frenzy of self-abnegation . |
| 19 | It felt nice , like a shield , it seemed to draw her into its warmth . |
| 20 | His voice seemed to draw her to him , making her want to tell him things that she 'd told no one . |
| 21 | ‘ Florian is a colleague ! ’ she flared , trying to contend with the wrenching anguish that rose in response to the sexual jealousy that seemed to mock her with its similarity to the emotional sort . |
| 22 | He flushed with anger when he remembered how the legal aid he had levied to furnish her to her wedding had brought in only miserable trickles of money on the date appointed , and how he had been forced to send out letters to all and sundry requesting loans to help to pay for her clothes and dowry , and even to borrow abjectly from the City of London and some of its richest citizens , with all the members of his council pledging themselves for repayment , so low was his own credit fallen . |
| 23 | Wanting to keep her for himself , and not wishing to give away her identity to his colleagues , he gives her a male name : ‘ Bob ’ — to the delight of the audience , who then laugh each time he uses the name . |
| 24 | What would he not give to have her by his side , supplanting with her company all the resentment he felt now at the friendship of others ? |
| 25 | It had had nothing to do with the past and everything to do with him wanting to oust her from her home . |
| 26 | The shock of his touch seemed to rob her of what little control she still had , and her eyes flew open , her blurred gaze registering his gaunt face as she stared at him before his arms enveloped her . |
| 27 | This is a tale of childhood based on the growing revolt of a young girl as she combats the forces which seek to deprive her of her pet rabbit and her closest friends ( the communist family next door ) . |
| 28 | He hissed her hand , delicately , a mere whisper of the lips , stood back , looked intently at her until she was forced to smile back at him , and pressing her left hand in his unclawed fingers , swept his blemished hand across the landscape beyond them : Bassenthwaite Lake , the valley , Keswick , Derwent Water , Catbells , Newlands , an Arcadia which his gesture seemed to offer her as his gift . |
| 29 | [ Philip Leapor ] informs me she was always fond of reading every thing that came in her way , as soon as she was capable of it ; and that when she and learnt to write tolerably , which , as he remembers , was at about ten or eleven Years old , She would often be scribbling , and sometimes in Rhyme ; which her Mother was at first pleas 'd with : But finding this Humour increase upon her as she grew up , when she thought her capable of more profitable Employment , she endeavour 'd to break her of it ; and that he likewise , having no Taste for Poetry , and not imagining it could ever be any Advantage to her , join 'd in the same Design : But finding it impossible to alter her natural Inclination , he had of late desisted , and left her more at Liberty |
| 30 | I would meet the beauteous child — pray contrive to present her to me , lady Anne . ’ ’ |