Example sentences of "[to-vb] she [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After spending more of the taxpayers ' funds to make the King Edmondo seaworthy , and to rig her out with state-of-the-art marine communications equipment , Coleman handed the boat over in late March to Hurley , who renamed her Skunk Kilo . |
| 2 | He 'd been sent to escort her back after that first long-ago attempt to cross the border ; and with that , it had begun . |
| 3 | A cool shower managed to sharpen her up to normal . |
| 4 | No business to lead her on like that . ’ |
| 5 | Oh it 's so funny , cos the second time he could n't , he came back and I think I was upstairs , and she did n't shut the door and I said all four , cos I 've got to pick her up at five , he said oh , anyway he went back , after dinner he 'd gone back and I said told you about it 's five o'clock , he said are you on me . |
| 6 | Jennifer realised that she would have to run for her train if she was to be home in time ; Steven had booked a table at their favourite restaurant and was due to pick her up at 7.30 . |
| 7 | See the thing is , what they 've said to me , because I 've been away now for nearly two years erm I 'd have to go back and do all the training again , which is a bit of a pain but its not too bad because I 've done it before sort of thing , she said to me oh yeah when you go I , I might come along and see if I like it , and we can do the training together she said , I manage to put her off that idea , manage to talk her out of that . |
| 8 | It 's awful to let her in for all this . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've had to put her off till two o'clock . |
| 10 | So I went there and cornered her in the canteen and tried to chat her up for half an hour . |
| 11 | The waiter , a cocky Italian who flicked his buttocks at her at the least opportunity , eyed her patronisingly and made attempts to chat her up in feeble English . |
| 12 | He 'd wanted to send her off to some relative in the country , but she did n't seem to have any family . |
| 13 | Why did I bother to tell her , only to have her shout at me , accuse me of being crazy to wake her up for that and tell me to keep my nose out of her brother 's business , especially since it was nothing to do with me . |
| 14 | It was my responsibility I brought that child into the world , and there was no way I was going to thrust her off onto other people . |
| 15 | Charles planned to marry her off to this man . |
| 16 | Hell , Nick , I tried to get her out of that place , but she did n't care . |
| 17 | Surely , to get her out of that tedious place — if only for a time — must be a better answer . |
| 18 | She knew instinctively that Buzz would reappear to get her out of this place and help her to recover . |
| 19 | ‘ Desmond , ’ said Margaret Seymour-Strachey , ‘ you 've got to get her back into that house as soon as possible . |
| 20 | It was impossible to fob her off with vague statements — and perhaps unwise . |
| 21 | He was quick , she noticed , to take her up on any casual remark and supposed that his interest in other people 's affairs and their reactions had something to do with the novelist in him . |
| 22 | He had had to bring her back through one of the worst storms on the North Atlantic . |
| 23 | Catching hold of her and she could n't get back do you seem because he had slipped this hand down this stick , got hold of her and he you see , and then I let go of the dog and take the the front feet and we used to drag her out like that you see , from the burrow and put her in a bag . |
| 24 | He tried cautiously to shove her over by main force , but she was too heavy . |