Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] her [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bought her some lunch and while Werewolf flirted , I tried to pump her about Pegasus Farm and the operation there . |
| 2 | Julia 's pain seemed to have left her , and she lay seeming to drift in and out of sleep or unconsciousness , Anne could never be sure which , as she sat beside her , wiping her face , or tried to feed her with beef tea from a feeding cup . |
| 3 | Mr Spencer said : ‘ Nichol was sexually attracted to Mrs Chandler and probably tried to engage her in conversation . |
| 4 | He discovered the girl 's name was Stella and tried to engage her in gossip . |
| 5 | He knew Blanche was nervous by her uncharacteristic air of distraction and tried to calm her with compliments about her appearance . |
| 6 | Each time Thomas or Carlo tried to draw her into conversation , the words dried on her lips . |
| 7 | Fred Bradley stayed very much in the background and his soft , kind eyes helped to put her at ease . |
| 8 | Roman bent to kiss her in greeting . |
| 9 | What she would do if he tried to take her to bed . |
| 10 | In parting we arranged to meet again , next time in London , and I promised to take her to dinner at her favourite restaurant , the Trocadero on Shaftesbury Avenue , just a stone 's throw from Piccadilly Circus . |
| 11 | ‘ I was always meant to lose her , ’ she had sobbed to Arthur , who tried to comfort her with cups of tea and brief , common-sense reassurances . |
| 12 | Cleverly she used the mirror from her powder compact to watch the unholy trinity of James Whitaker and rival photographers Ken Lennox and Arthur Edwards as they tried to capture her on film . |
| 13 | The defending solicitor tried to fault her on identification but she described the car as having a metallic paint job , wide wheels and a number of triangular stickers in the rear window ; she also thought that she could remember a couple of fluffy dice hanging from the rear-view mirror , and she gave the first three letters of the registration number . |
| 14 | What was it about him that seemed to knock her off balance this way , making her act so strangely out of character ? |
| 15 | The eyes that burned through her seemed to hold her like rivets . |
| 16 | After Clare 's six weeks of personal fitness training at home , as recommended by the marines , the day came to deliver her to Easthampstead Park for the 36-hour preparation period before the flight to Borneo . |
| 17 | Caspar came to collect her before supper . |
| 18 | She was usually so confident when dealing with even the most difficult of guests on the Day-to-Day programme , but there was just something about Luke Calder that seemed to throw her off balance . |
| 19 | It seemed to follow her like Hitler , Himmler , and the marching white faces of all the dead men . |
| 20 | He hated to see her with blood on her hands . |
| 21 | Ironically , the rescue craft which arrived to haul her to safety was the boat she was helping to pay for . |
| 22 | Minutes later as neighbours rallied round to help the nursing home worker an ambulance arrived to take her to hospital . |
| 23 | He turned to frown her into silence . |
| 24 | Some days Luiza , Freddi and Alfred joined them and they began to walk her through parts of the productions . |
| 25 | He therefore determined to seize her from Winthrop Grange where she lived with her father Lord Archibald Winthrop ( played by a well-known character actor who did commercials for tea-bags ) . |
| 26 | He began to tell her about Letty and then about the astonishing story that there might be another member of the family tucked away in Scotland . |
| 27 | A FORMER pupil of an Edinburgh school has started a £30,000 damages action after claiming staff failed to protect her from bullies . |
| 28 | Seeing General Piran ahead , he decided to try her in practice chukkas tomorrow . |
| 29 | At first I had thought she would recover , but when I learned her illness was serious , I decided to visit her at night , for what might be the last time . |
| 30 | Shelley started to question her about Tasso 's La Gerusalemme Liberata , but Byron called her over to him . |