Example sentences of "[to-vb] she [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ A few seconds , ’ she replied , allowing him to help her onto the adjacent bar stool . |
| 32 | ‘ She also told me she is going to ask you to help her in a little project , ’ he said , grinning mischievously . |
| 33 | Surprisingly light and nimble , he jumped out and extended a hand to help her from the rocking boat . |
| 34 | By now Kelly needed extensive physiotheraphy several times a day to rid her of the excess mucus that clogged her lungs . |
| 35 | The Countess of Essex had employed the magician , Simon Forman [ q.v. ] , to secure the love of Robert Carr ( later Earl of Somerset , q.v. ) , the king 's favourite , and to rid her of an unwanted husband . |
| 36 | I do not know where Henry Green picked up the erroneous information that Ivy had been a governess , but thinking of some of her sibylline utterances it was tempting to imagine her as a royal and imperial governess at Thebes and Mycenae . |
| 37 | The cat began to stalk her through the blade-broad iris leaves with such solemnity that she laughed and paused even longer , to play with him , and was cheered . |
| 38 | The crew tried to sail her through a narrow gap at a bridge in Purton . |
| 39 | Enya claims to be stubborn , sulky and contrary where her composition is concerned , but she knew from unfortunate personal experience the natural anarchy and entropy of bands and very rationally allowed Nicky and Roma 's professional advice to guide her in the right direction . |
| 40 | By then she felt that she had seen enough paintings , churches , marble floors and medieval palaces to last her for a long time . |
| 41 | The aim with 78018 is to use her on the former Stockton and Darlington , Stanhope and Tyne Wear Valley routes which are used for summer Sunday pacer trains and cement traffic to Blue Circle 's Eastgate Cement Works the current limit of the line . |
| 42 | Of course the Palace ca n't afford to leave her as a loose cannon . |
| 43 | God knows , I have little enough to give her in a worldly sense . |
| 44 | How ever , there is no doubt in my mind that it would be quite wrong to confine her in a geriatric home among seriously deranged patients . |
| 45 | It would n't be the first time that a man had lovingly supported a woman through crisis only to discover that when she was strong again his own need was to confine her in a dependent role . |
| 46 | Needlework and laundrywork provided an effective class and gender strategy , designed to prepared the prostitute for her correct place in the female labour force and to re-educate her into an approved feminine role . |
| 47 | ‘ We do n't want to put her under a great deal of pressure after what she 's been through . |
| 48 | He was trying to put her in the wrong again . |
| 49 | Forcing herself to assume a composure she was far from feeling , Gina allowed him to usher her from the small lobby behind the front door into a living-room of graceful proportions . |
| 50 | Yet Charles still has the power to cheat her of the ultimate prize — her throne . |
| 51 | The last two made her suspicious of Russia , and even ready to fight her in the 1870s . |
| 52 | I intended at first only to teach her needlework to qualify her for a genteel position , for you see she has a delicacy in her person that makes it a pity ever to put her to hard work , but she masters everything so fast that now I am desirous to have to divert and entertain me in my thoughtful hours . |
| 53 | ‘ Matilda is the late King 's daughter , Hugh , and we all took that oath to recognise her as the future queen after her brother went down with the White Ship , ’ protested the Prior . |
| 54 | THE actress Helena Bonham Carter is asking a court to protect her from an obsessive fan who is making her life a misery . |
| 55 | She wished to bring an action against her employers alleging that they had been negligent in failing adequately to protect her against the known risk of injury from this pupil . |
| 56 | Penry put his arm round her to shepherd her towards the moving row of taxis . |
| 57 | Robbie could scarcely believe this was the same man who was at such pains to keep her at a safe distance , until she reflected that in Fen 's eyes Miss Taylor would present no threat to his reserve . |
| 58 | Oh no , we 'll pay to keep her for a long time |
| 59 | Italian pop star Loredana Berte told a judge she needs the massive handouts to keep her in the luxurious style she enjoyed when they were together . |
| 60 | It had been their intention to send her to a finishing school in France or Germany , but she had begged so hard to be allowed to stay where she was , with Breeze and Gay . |