Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] her [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 She hated the school for forcing her through the mockery of inquiry .
32 Her twin sister Sally , of Penarth , South Glamorgan , south Wales , begged school-friends and neighbours not to feel guilty about sending her on the venture .
33 He had thought about sending her to the oculist and he was much nicer to Gran .
34 She directed her anger at her husband as well as Luke and was frustrated by her husband 's passivity and lack of activity in helping her with the problem as well as more generally in their relationship .
35 Anything to divert his attention , to prevent him from labelling her with the cruel names she 'd last heard on Marcus 's tongue .
36 She remembered mother 's compassion in saving her from the certain shock of such evil envelopes .
37 Finally they were outside , and Luke took her hand , kissing her quickly before urging her across the road to the car park and into his car .
38 She finished breathlessly , and Greg refrained from enlightening her on the history of New Zealand .
39 They bundled her into the living room punched and threatened her with a knife , before spraying her in the face with Ammonia .
40 This was partly due to ‘ The Loco-Motion ’ , remixed by Stock , Aitken and Waterman and her third single on the PWL label , succeeding in breaking her in the all-important American market when it climbed to number three in the US charts .
41 ‘ I love you , my darling Laura , ’ he murmured , before joining her on the bed and drawing her gently back into his arms .
42 Setting her firmly down on the wide base of the large shower cubicle , he swiftly turned on the taps , before joining her beneath the cascade of fresh water .
43 Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) .
44 Had he done wrong in inviting her in the first place ?
45 Rain had no clear idea what to do with her , apart from taking her to the Villa Fiesole , and she was already seeing the warped logic of Edouard 's argument : Barbara Coleman might be safer where she was .
46 The court 's hearings were in private , but the judgment revealed that the Attorney General , Harold Whelehan , had obtained a temporary injunction on Feb. 7 preventing the parents of the girl from taking her to the UK for an operation .
47 For Rachel , who had never before experienced such intensity of feeling , it was as if he 'd transported her to another world — a world where every sensation was heightened , every touch the prelude to yet more delight as he explored and worshipped every inch of her body before taking her to the peak of fulfilment .
48 Wait until your baby has been walking for a few weeks before taking her for the first shoe fitting , as toes are crucial in gripping the floor while learning to toddle .
49 He had assisted in lifting her from the floor of Willi Zimmermann 's living room when she was blindly unconscious .
50 ‘ As daylight , ’ she snapped , before giving a heavy sigh as she realised that , yet again , the horrid man had succeeded in putting her in the wrong .
51 Lucenzo had been hell-bent on intimidating her from the beginning .
52 Cornered , he resorted to patting her on the shoulder , while across his face flitted the craven smile of a man dealing with an unpredictable pet that yet might turn on him .
53 No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ?
54 The previous evening they had insisted on taking her to the cinema , ignoring her protests that she would rather see the Molière play at the Comédie Française , to watch Jacques Prévert 's film Les Enfants du Paradis .
55 So we might say my friend Ellen Blair , or the former chairman Ellen Blair , or a nurse in the ward called Ellen Blair , giving , in some sense , ‘ credentials ’ for her existence and for her relationship to the speaker who is responsible for introducing her into the conversation .
56 After all , fitzAlan had n't seemed to worry about exposing her to the elements .
57 He looked at her doubtfully , as troubled at leaving her with the distressed child as Edna had been at leaving Liza with Celia a short time before .
58 I was also excited at the prospect of earning some reward , and I could n't sleep that night for thinking about visiting her in the morning .
59 It will decide on April 29 whether the Daily Express and the Independent invaded family privacy by naming her as the girl in the broadcast .
60 As a result she is not allowed by her mother to supplement the family income by helping her in the fields , since to be seen doing it would mean she had become an illiterate villager again .
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