Example sentences of "[verb] her to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They subjected her to verbal abuse . |
| 2 | The next step , which only the most well-off men such as restaurant owners can afford , is keeping this wife in semi-purdah — in other words sentencing her to solitary confinement . |
| 3 | Voices continued for hours , snapping her to occasional attention . |
| 4 | Building on the TV success that rocketed her to overnight fame , she is set to make TWO movies and is launching a promising pop career . |
| 5 | She was no longer in the habit of being late : her life had schooled her to temporal accuracy , perhaps to being considerate . |
| 6 | Her whole adult life was a triumph of determination over a body that could have condemned her to permanent invalidism . |
| 7 | I intended at first only to teach her needlework to qualify her for a genteel position , for you see she has a delicacy in her person that makes it a pity ever to put her to hard work , but she masters everything so fast that now I am desirous to have to divert and entertain me in my thoughtful hours . |
| 8 | There is no shortage of writing about Pollock ; like other star artists , he has an embarrassingly large number of apologists , but fortunately there are select bibliographies which can guide her to key publications . |
| 9 | He would take her to good restaurants . |
| 10 | When Kylie finally won her biggest break as Charlene in Neighbours she remained modest and unaware that the role would take her to international stardom . |
| 11 | I mean , as I said to my hubby later on , we did n't scrimp and scrape to send her to Hutchy Girls so she would grow up to give us grandweans saying merr , flerr and sterr . |
| 12 | He had introduced her to physical passion , and at the same time ignited a fire in his own sensual , earthy Taurean nature that had proved impossible to quench . |
| 13 | The Flack team restored her to pristine condition as G–FURY , and she made her first flight at Elstree in June 1980 . |
| 14 | The words were tenderly spoken , yet they hit her like a tidal wave of icy-cold water , instantly extinguishing the flames of passion curling inside her , bringing her to horrified realisation of just what she was doing . |
| 15 | But she never dared ask him , for fear he would tell her ) — the grocer treated her to infrequent smiles and would give occasional chocolates to Victoria , who would go back to the toyshop with a heavy brown moustache and sideburns . |
| 16 | But Christine , 37 , insisted on going home for a snack before an ambulance took her to Royal Hallamshire hospital . |
| 17 | Jaq spoke with a casualness which , in the circumstances , brought her to full alert . |
| 18 | With the intention of seeking comfort and support , she rode over to Mayfield Cottage one evening on the bicycle she had acquired to transport her to previous assignations . |
| 19 | The conclusive Senate vote was scheduled for Oct. 8 , but had to be delayed for seven days following revelation of new evidence from Anita Hill , 35 , a black University of Oklahoma teacher of law , who alleged that Thomas had subjected her to sexual harassment with explicit , pornographic suggestions when she worked for him at the Department of Education and the EEOC in the early 1980s . |
| 20 | At times , Michael coached her three times a day in an effort to get her to international standard . |
| 21 | In her opinion , her love for her husband was not diminished at all just because another man could raise her to sexual satisfaction in a devastating fulfilment which was lacking in Stephen 's love-making . |
| 22 | The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives . |
| 23 | Cos I was out with my first daughter at quarter to eight in the morning to catch the bus to take her to adopted aunty |
| 24 | He began to take her to antique shops , sought out trade exhibitions of fabrics and contemporary furniture , bought her books on design — on Bauhaus , which brought him back to his own youth , on the Viennese Secession with its decorative flights and insistence on utility . |
| 25 | I mean , I might have had to shove the split match heads under Carol 's fingernails , or tie her to a tree and subject her to psychological warfare by , say , reading Hemingway aloud to her . |
| 26 | And if you give her , just stick her to small amounts for the next couple of days |
| 27 | It was a coup not only for CND sentiments but for Hamnett personally , shooting her to instant fame around the world . |