Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands . |
| 2 | Boz is the only one she 'd tell such a thing to , but she 's already told me Boz has n't been to see her since the attack . ’ |
| 3 | His original plan had been to sell her at the Sonepur Mela in Bihar , the world 's largest animal fair and their final destination . |
| 4 | After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . |
| 5 | ‘ The best chance would have been to grab her on the way in , ’ the man said . |
| 6 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |
| 7 | And luck , a commodity the spirited teenager had never been short of , played a crucial part in the events that were to set her on the path to millions . |
| 8 | The aim with 78018 is to use her on the former Stockton and Darlington , Stanhope and Tyne Wear Valley routes which are used for summer Sunday pacer trains and cement traffic to Blue Circle 's Eastgate Cement Works the current limit of the line . |
| 9 | My sister 's job was to meet her at the bus stop with the wheel basket so she did n't have to carry it up the road . |
| 10 | Tony found that the best thing to do was to put her in the buggy and push her round the town , or take her to the park . |
| 11 | The only way he knew to heal the pain of his humiliation was to punish her for the crime of leaving him . |
| 12 | He told us what sport it was to take her to the ‘ Houtsize ‘ 0use ’ in London , first putting her on the Inner Circle , getting off smartly himself , and leaving her to go round and round until his amusement wore off . |
| 13 | A Norwegian freedom fighter who knew the area was to take her to the nearby village , after which she was on her own . |
| 14 | She also reveals how the actor who tried to make the world a better place was to rescue her from the brink again . |