Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] her [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Gregory the slanders against Fredegund were intended to drive her from the court , thus facilitating the elevation of her stepson , Clovis , to the throne . |
| 2 | If Rohan needed to have a private word with her , why had n't he arranged to see her at the house instead ? |
| 3 | She was disappointed that he had n't arranged to meet her during the afternoon or even later on . |
| 4 | ‘ I was wondering whether you 'd arranged to meet her for a talk — to break the news to her ? ’ |
| 5 | And he had probably expected to see her at the shop this morning , while she had been waiting impatiently at his office . |
| 6 | Madonna has often talked of her Ten Year Plan , a route to megastardom designed to keep her in the manner to which she has quickly become accustomed for years to come too . |
| 7 | He had come to question her in the manner of someone who comes to peer at a freak in a sideshow . |
| 8 | After he had come to collect her at the flat they joined a party of junior officers and debutantes at the Haymarket Theatre to see Pygmalion by the fashionable playwright George Bernard Shaw . |
| 9 | Tell her you 've come to take her to the ol the pensioners ' club on her , on your bike . |
| 10 | Consciousness deteriorated and , since the pain ‘ could no longer be relieved ’ , it was decided to kill her with a large dose of opioids . |
| 11 | One source said : ‘ When Rose arrived in Perth , the old money prepared to accept her around the scene . |
| 12 | And he had been a healthy influence on Clare when she most needed it — when that creeping Jesus of a Damien had threatened to infect her with the mildew of his own damp piety . |
| 13 | But the second after the bottle shattered , the horror of what she had done hit her with the shock of a faceful of freezing water . |
| 14 | Determined but polite efforts were made to interest her in the purchase of tomatoes , plums , oranges , artichokes , mussels , scallops , chickens and even a swordfish steak . |
| 15 | What he had just said hit her like a douche of cold water , and instantly Leith , while wanting to hammer the living daylights out of him , — although still forgetful of her tenuous job position — was otherwise working on full brain power . |
| 16 | Auntie Nellie only came to visit on special occasions so I expect Dad must have written to invite her to the wedding . |
| 17 | However , as the torchlight danced ahead she gradually lost the worst of the fears that had at first threatened to turn her into a quivering jelly . |
| 18 | was delighted to tell you that we have already received our first nomination for this position in 1992. has been nominated and seconded and , as she is not a current elected member of the Executive Committee , it has been decided to invite her to the remaining Executive meetings as an observer so that she gets used to how the Society functions . |
| 19 | After her marriage attempts were made to unseat her from the London School Board because of the alleged illegality of her name . |
| 20 | The kitchen and the one spare bedroom were constantly , noisily occupied , the doorbell rang at all hours , and once , answering it , a man she had never seen struck her on the side of the head with an empty bottle and told her to leave his wife alone . |
| 21 | He knew that she was falling in love , and had decided to warn her of the mistake she was making . |
| 22 | In spite of our scepticism , to our relief the first boat in that area to be investigated proved to match the photograph and we slunk off into the night , doused our lights , and prepared to follow her at a safe distance . |
| 23 | They threatened that , if he did not co-operate , the Northern Ireland emergency powers of detention would be used to intern her as a dangerous subversive . |
| 24 | It was as if some gigantic cork was being used to plug her like a bottle of rare wine . |
| 25 | As she went she remembered that Angela had promised to meet her at the bus-stop . |
| 26 | Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place . |
| 27 | He 'd not offered to help her with the Christmas preparations and she had n't felt like asking him . |
| 28 | Her mother and father had had to help her down the steps and into the car . |
| 29 | Then , suddenly , just as Joanna was nodding a dubious assent , the full force of what she had been told hit her like a thunderbolt . |
| 30 | ( And that was another thing — fancy being told to call her by a name which meant in French not only ‘ stepmother ’ and ‘ mother-in-law ’ , but ‘ beautiful Mama ’ too … . |