Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] her [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it was American atomic attitudes in this period hardened British resolution not to be bullied out of the business and not to acquiesce in an American monopoly ; it encouraged her determination to be a nuclear power for the sake of the influence this was expected to give her in Washington ! |
| 2 | Rage welled up in her as she thought of the way he had come to get her in London , so cool , so confident , so very self-assured . |
| 3 | When Anna was three years old it was decided to put her in foal , but many nose twitches , injections , and rectal examinations later , she was still not pregnant ; so she was sold . |
| 4 | The way she put it was that Michel had very kindly offered to drive her to Paris , which she had never seen properly ( Simon used to grumble so about not being able to take her because of the war ) . |
| 5 | For Brian to be certain he was the father of any child of Tina 's , for anyone to know he was the father of any child of Tina 's , he would have had to keep her for months on an island inhabited only by the pair of them . |
| 6 | It seemed very hard that she should have had to uproot herself completely while her husband could not even be bothered to accompany her on holidays to her own country . |
| 7 | She loved Sharpe , yet she saw in her lover the embodiment of those ghouls who had been used to scare her into childhood obedience . |
| 8 | But I heard only this morning the story of an Arab girl whose parents have had to remove her from school because she was receiving threatening messages . |
| 9 | And after phoning Julie , who had agreed to join her in Devon , she 'd also been heartened by her friend 's confirmation that she was doing the right thing . |
| 10 | I 've got to take her to Lourdes , ’ Keith says . |
| 11 | He had promised to return her to Milan in the morning . |
| 12 | ‘ I have always gone to see her at Kensington Palace — well , I was n't going to see her in a railway siding , was I ? |
| 13 | However , many things had happened during the two years since she had been told that her mother had died of the fever and that , prior to this , she had not been allowed to see her in case she should catch it and spread it further . |
| 14 | Obviously very pleased with herself over this and Aggie 's reaction , she then brought it up so many times that Aggie was eventually forced to yell her into silence . |
| 15 | These were the veins in your lids , she knew that , though now , in the darkness of her pain , she remembered that Adesangé , lord of the volcano , the power that leapt in the crater and had leapt to set her on fire , moved along fissures in the earth that forked like those veins in her eyes . |
| 16 | Often in the past he had tried to keep her in bed in the morning , but always she had pushed off his sleep-drugged advances with a brusque reminder that she had work to do , stubbornly shutting her mind to the tenderness of a few hours before . |
| 17 | She did n't feel comfortable and safe with anybody but Angus : he had n't tried to push her into bed at the first opportunity . |
| 18 | The Pushkin police officers had intended to take her to St Petersburg police station when they discovered she was a foreigner . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're sweet , ’ she said simply , knowing then that because his lack of enthusiasm on Saturday had worried him , he had determined to see her in person that morning . |
| 20 | Englishmen were afraid that France might be able to dominate Europe and were determined to hold her in check . |
| 21 | Nelson had planned to take her to town , but when they got up to the car park he could n't get his car to start . |
| 22 | ‘ You certainly have mastered your anatomy , ’ she told him admiringly as he slid his hands across the small of her back to find that ecstatic erogenous zone that never failed to set her on fire . |
| 23 | Should you wish to continue using your mare as a broodmare , you may be advised to put her in foal every year because some believe that this actually makes it easier for a mare to conceive . |
| 24 | Besides which , she reminded herself , he had chosen to put her in charge of his new London branch and , naturally , he needed to know if she was single-minded about her future job . |