Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] she [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he goes out there to wait for her in the evening , I sometimes think : It is n't Rosa . |
| 2 | Fortunately , she was petite and thin , almost to the point of emaciation , but all the same Sabine needed all her strength to struggle with her to the grass on the opposite side of the road . |
| 3 | Ada Thompson who knew Herbert Varley who was married to a Jewish girl , asked Daisy , one dank and drizzling November afternoon two years ago , to come with her to the Mandelbaums ' . |
| 4 | So she asked Curtis and Mrs Files — who had been watching Delia Sutherland 's reaction from the service door — to come with her into the morning room where she explained the situation as frankly as possible . |
| 5 | And naturally his only means of getting in touch would be to write to her at the one address he knew : Elise 's cottage . |
| 6 | If she had had it in her power to change anything in that one moment , it would be for Matthew to come to her as a friend . |
| 7 | He seemed to stand over her for an eternity , about to strike . |
| 8 | It would be far easier than if he was just going to stand over her like a portent of doom with that horrible expression on his face . |
| 9 | Actually seeing her physically pregnant may increase this response , and so when she has had her baby and gone back to her usual size , it is easier to relate to her as a daughter again . |
| 10 | The boy came over to Tallis and began to work on her with a knife . |
| 11 | I watched through George 's window as Filmer made great effort to go towards her with a smile , drawing attention away from the gaunt-faced man , who returned to the station . |
| 12 | But when he came to sit opposite her in the dining-room that first evening , he felt he had made a mistake . |
| 13 | She was not very good at smiling these days , and the unease disseminated by her unconvincing efforts led Eddie Duckworth to mutter to her in a corner , with a mixture of sharpness and sorrow , that perhaps she 'd better go to bed . |
| 14 | He too wanted to talk to her about the attack , but found her far less ready to talk to him than she had been to the woman from the gipsy encampment . |
| 15 | But Worcester police want to talk to her about the withdrawal of £130,000 from funds . |
| 16 | And then he looked in her direction , smiled and waved over the woman 's shoulder , continued to talk to her for a few moments , then laid a hand on her arm for an instant and moved towards Helen . |
| 17 | Then she said she felt happy enough to skip the Ecstasy experiment and , instead , to have an early night , so I refused to talk to her for the rest of the meal — rightly , I think — and on the way home I walked stiffly three yards ahead of her . |
| 18 | He looked for her and came to talk to her at every possible moment , at milking , butter-making , cheese-making , among chickens and among pigs . |
| 19 | To show this was not true , I began to talk to her in an animated way , and she was attentive , encouraging me with questions . |
| 20 | That he 'd gone out to look for her on the road and across the clunch pit field , returning alone half an hour later . |
| 21 | You could decide to work at a time when your partner or a friend is round to see the baby , or arrange for someone — a childminder or relative — to look after her for a few hours each week . |
| 22 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 23 | Alice afterwards — in an effort to safeguard her position — claimed that it was the queen who had summoned her and who had promised to look after her in the future . |
| 24 | Madame 's eyes seemed to look past her into a different time . |
| 25 | His greatest pleasure was to walk with her along the seashore . |
| 26 | She solicitously asked if all was well , sending constant messages to enquire if there was anything lacking , or inviting him to walk with her in the sweet-smelling orchard outside the convent church . |
| 27 | The way she felt about him seemed to sweep round her like the clouds up above . |
| 28 | The food she had eaten immediately seemed to stick inside her like a great lump of lead . |
| 29 | And she did , leaving a very bewildered Ellie to look round her at the well-equipped kitchen and the gently steaming kettle . |
| 30 | If he spoke to a girl a couple of times he would tend to look on her as a girlfriend . |