Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] she [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as the week wore on and Damian made no attempt to see her at night , spend time with her or try to kiss her , she realised he was seeing Domino in the dark , humid hours when Rachel sat alone at home , tortured by jealousy , consumed with it , imagining them together and burning with impotent rage . |
| 2 | It followed radiotherapy to treat her for cancer . |
| 3 | How if she chooses this moment and this audience to make it known that she visits us only out of pure charity , that what lies in her handsome reliquary is in reality the body of the young man who committed murder to secure her for Shrewsbury , and himself died by accident , in circumstances that made it vital he should vanish ? |
| 4 | Head will write to mother arranging a meeting during last week of term to inform her of details , also Social Worker . |
| 5 | Joan Allen was 74 years old when her son asked her general practitioner to visit her at home . |
| 6 | ‘ My poor wife 's attempt to scare her into flight must have been the final straw . |
| 7 | Her new husband , Andrew Leach , made some attempt to wean her from alcohol . |
| 8 | She was waiting for an ambulance to take her to St Thomas ' Hospital . |
| 9 | Mada Joyce expected Nana to trust her for goods from the store , but never expected to pay . |
| 10 | She has started to reject the liver and bowel she received in a transplant last year after a huge fund-raising campaign to send her to America . |
| 11 | Finally , the Report suggested that the Minister might establish ‘ a small committee to advise her from time to time on the subjects and types of adult education courses which should receive priority in qualifying for grant ’ ( Recommendation 18 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ So , Isabelle found another fool to marry her in England . |
| 13 | ‘ You can give me another place to meet her at night-time , a more private place , which she can choose and no one will be able to find out . ’ |
| 14 | This was not merely because the new function of the bourgeois wife , to show off the capacity of the bourgeois husband to keep her in leisure and luxury , conflicted with the old functions of actually running a household , but also because her inferiority to the man must be demonstrable : |
| 15 | Jezrael stepped forward into nothing , allowing the tube to loft her into Steel City . |
| 16 | She had come to suspect that her affair with him would not be straightforward , that he was not sent by heaven to redeem her from chastity . |
| 17 | He might be one of them , come during the day to catch her off guard . |
| 18 | We have owls in our garden ; they cried softly last night as I lay in my glass coffin , Snow White waiting for the fairy to wake her into feminism with a kiss . |
| 19 | ANOTHER former employee of Mrs Winnie Mandela has said he lied in court to save her from implication in the murder of Stompie Moeketsi . |
| 20 | When he hired a taxi to take her to Eastbourne for the day ( the same man who took a bus to the theatre , rather than pay for a cab ) she jumped out at the lights near Oval cricket ground because she was so disturbed by his erratic behaviour . |
| 21 | She was almost abject with gratitude to Drew who 'd insisted she use his Land-Rover as her base , and who 'd come up specially that morning to invite her to lunch and to watch the match with him and Sukey . |
| 22 | The next morning , without seeing any of the family , who were heaven knew where , she made herself some breakfast under the smiling gaze of Rose or Mary — she did n't know which — and before she could get into a worry as to whether Feargal had meant his offer to take her to Carlingford he walked in through the back door . |
| 23 | There was no proclamation of the word to bring the Brahmin woman to belief And there was no human messenger to tell her about Jesus , though the part played by the Christian outcast crossing sweeper was of the utmost importance . |
| 24 | ‘ At least I have the sense to treat her with respect . ’ |
| 25 | A WOUNDED British woman told yesterday how her lover gave his own life to save her from death in the claws of a crazed grizzly bear . |
| 26 | If , and to my mind it 's a colossal if , if she managed to seduce him and then told him he was the father-to-be , and if he believed it , it would have been more his style to pack her off home to her parents and provide for her . |
| 27 | " There were n't really many single men around , and he 'd have had to be a pretty outstanding young man to take her in hand . " |
| 28 | In the end , they came to the decision that whichever one of them saw Tamar first , would try to have a private word to tell her of Davis 's presence , and then see how she reacted . |
| 29 | Maybe Lucenzo had good reason to treat her with contempt . |
| 30 | Piers Morrison was a dangerous stranger , one who made no effort to treat her with respect , far less subservience , and who had kissed her on the spur of the moment , then instantly regretted it because he basically did n't like her . |