Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] she [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I want you to show her the ropes .
2 She said it was very kind of you to make her a cake , and she 's asked you to tea at her house ! ’
3 Jane wants me to send her a postcard .
4 Indeed , they seemed to be leaning over her to catch her every breath , closest by her panting mouth , reaching to her eyes , and the air was thick with poison sap and sharp with vomit .
5 She must persuade him of her good intentions — for it had never crossed her mind that she would not repay him — but she must also try to convince him of the seriousness of her situation and persuade him to grant her a bit of leeway .
6 Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ?
7 ‘ So Angy asked him to pass her a knife while she was cooking something . ’
8 But if she 'd been frank from the outset and had admitted to him that she 'd been sent by his stepmother with the plea for him to visit her the result would have been short and sharp .
9 The shameless bitch openly encouraged her young admirer 's attentions , summoning him to fetch her a drink , move the parasol , even to rub sun cream on her topless back .
10 George put down the bucket and strode over to her to give her a pat .
11 Silently he applauded her fortitude , wanting to hold her to give her the solace he knew she needed .
12 He beat his drum under her window and she asked him to give her a rose .
13 She gets him to give her a cigarette , after she has asked to have a ‘ drag ’ on his : This in itself seems quite suggestive .
14 St Ives said it was a mercy he had n't after all approached Meredith and asked him to give her the push .
15 She felt a deep , sensual pleasure as she held his leaping , quivering manhood in check , but the heat of him was so dangerously exciting that she arched herself in mute supplication , begging him to give her the release that her body craved .
16 She asked him to teach her the trick , but he said that she was not ready yet .
17 And she did n't want to be at odds with him , did n't want him to think her a cheat — only what were the odds on him ever believing otherwise ?
18 Juliet was remembering Celia 's frightened voice as she asked her to tell her the blood results before anyone else .
19 He wanted to know whether she would like him to make her a cup of tea or whether they might wait until his wife returned from a committee meeting .
20 Otley called at the crack of dawn , ‘ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke wants us to give her a hand . ’
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