Example sentences of "[verb] her [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was unbearably aware of the tensile strength of his incipient beard beneath the shaven smoothness of his jaw , just as she was of the aroused hardness of his body , controlled , contained but testifying to his rampant masculinity in a way that was driving her to abandon the last remaining threads of self-control . |
| 2 | Paul Stern , the vice-president of the Vienna Bridge Club , soon invited her to join the Austrian Ladies ' Team , which was preparing for the first European Women 's Teams Championship to be held in Brussels in 1935 . |
| 3 | He pushed one of the doors open and invited her to enter the pretty pink and white room . |
| 4 | That was what stung most of all — the fact that he did n't even expect her to complete the one thing she loved doing in all the world , the one thing she was good at . |
| 5 | And I told her to keep the twenty for that stuff in there . |
| 6 | His hair was still quite closely cropped , and his beard now followed the lines of his jaw and allowed her to see the hard fierce lines of his face . |
| 7 | Then , in the last four years of her life , working with a small devoted group of students and collaborators , she succeeded in obtaining spectacular X-ray patterns of the virus that allowed her to determine the precise helical geometry of the protein sub-units , and , above all , to show that the ribonucleic acid ( RNA ) of the virus — the carrier of the genetic information , and hence the infectivity — formed a long single chain embedded deeply within the protein framework . |
| 8 | People very kindly took her under their wing , explained the rules , explained the dangers of unexpected holes , and then encouraged her to spend the next few hours crawling into and under wet gorse bushes . |
| 9 | As I hastened to go upstairs , I happened to encounter Miss Kenton in the back corridor — the scene , of course , of our last disagreement — and it was perhaps this unhappy coincidence that encouraged her to maintain the childish behaviour she had adopted on that previous occasion . |
| 10 | Then , on 31 December , he rang back in desperation at the slow progress on the house , and told Sybille they would like her to start the next day . |
| 11 | Got her to do the dirty work for for free ! |
| 12 | When they had eventually managed to get him out of the house he 'd helped her to carry the remaining dishes from the dining-room , a thing he never did . |
| 13 | Cissie had a love of reading , especially since Beth had helped her to master the longer words that she had never really understood . |
| 14 | Yanto had told her to give the small salmon to Sid , providing he coughed up the twenty quid , but Mary decided she could get something out of it herself , especially after that uncomfortable bicycle ride . |
| 15 | His fingers laced themselves in the loose strands of her wet hair , pulling her head back so that her body was arched against him , forcing her to face the feverish gleam in the heavy-lidded grey eyes staring down at her so intently . |
| 16 | Her sexual frustration and jealousy leads her to destroy the hedonistic , deceitful Sapphire who otherwise would have become her sister-in-law . |
| 17 | It is what leads her to animate the inanimate in her descriptive passages , and it is the child-in-the-adult that moves us in her most memorable characters ( often male ) : Denisov , Kissov , Gruishunya , Peters . |
| 18 | I 'm not expecting her to do the heavy work . |
| 19 | He beckoned her to do the same . |
| 20 | Sandra began collecting several years ago after a large repair bill for a timepiece prompted her to learn the intricate ins and outs of their workings . |
| 21 | Victoria had written to her mother , the Queen , in March asking her to inform the Foreign Secretary , Lord Clarendon . |
| 22 | Sticking her head out of the door , she summoned a nurse and got her to take the young man 's parents back to the interview-room and give them a cup of tea . |
| 23 | Her reward , in the summer of 1556 , was a lengthy letter from Knox , encouraging her to embrace the Protestant faith . |
| 24 | She is patting Xanthe softly now , dreamily , and she stands her up and drops the nightdress with the rabbits over the little girl 's head , and turns her to fasten the top pearl button at the back . |
| 25 | As he took her on a guided tour of the eight-bedroomed mansion , the Prince asked her to organize the interior decoration . |
| 26 | She gave a similar answer when he asked her to open the automatic cash dispenser . |
| 27 | We asked her to describe the other members of her group , and she told us that it was composed largely of female relatives , their mates and children . |
| 28 | Her strong commitment to women 's rights led her to write the first Salvadorean publication on the oppression of women , The Condition of Women in El Salvador , published in Mexico in 1961 . |
| 29 | Then he had sent her off to the lingerie department with the assistant , admonishing her to choose the prettiest undergarments . |
| 30 | It took four visits ( over a seven-week period ) to put an end to her phobia once and for all and to allow her to lead the happy , normal life she so desired . |