Example sentences of "[to-vb] she on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 2 | There were photographs of her in the few parts she had been able to play in the years following her marriage ; photographs of her in youth , when her father had begun to launch her on the career which would be interrupted by the coming of Paul . |
| 3 | Unionist leaders organized a demonstration against her visit and the Lord Mayor of the city refused to meet her on the grounds that she represented a state which laid claim in its constitution to jurisdiction over Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | Mary had been brought up with her story which , for many in the valley — except her own generation , increasingly unable to visit her on the heights she chose for her seclusion — had gone cold long ago . |
| 5 | In return she showed them the Daimler and invited forty of them to visit her on the Dockers ' yacht , Shemara , where pink champagne was served amid costly fitments which were often detailed in the newspapers . |
| 6 | From America , how earnestly he 'd longed to reach her on the telephone ! |
| 7 | It was good enough however to set her on the way to winning vital experience — and other roles soon followed . |
| 8 | And luck , a commodity the spirited teenager had never been short of , played a crucial part in the events that were to set her on the path to millions . |
| 9 | You 'd like that , would n't you , Leith ? ’ he had the unmitigated nerve to put her on the spot . |
| 10 | One woman with this problem , whose rather self-absorbed elderly mother used to keep her on the telephone for hours with doom-laden conversations , solved it by telling her that she had developed migraine which was always triggered off by holding a phone to her ear for more than a quarter of an hour at a time ! |
| 11 | ‘ The best chance would have been to grab her on the way in , ’ the man said . |
| 12 | If you tried to pat her on the shoulder and say ‘ There , there , ’ anything might happen . |
| 13 | He slid his arm round her narrow waist and bent to kiss her on the forehead . |
| 14 | He bent down to kiss her on the lips , and Folly felt her head start to swim again as she reached up to place her hand behind his neck , drawing him down . |
| 15 | He stopped and turned her towards him and tried to kiss her on the mouth . |
| 16 | ‘ I could go out and conquer an entire army , ’ he told her , bending to kiss her on the mouth . |
| 17 | As Seb passed by he placed his hands on her shoulders and leaned over to kiss her on the cheek . |
| 18 | She did n't care about anything ; she just wanted Meredith to see her on the back of the Prince 's white charger . |
| 19 | Well , you are unlikely ever to see her on the screen . |
| 20 | She now hopes that the world will no longer expect to see her on the arm of her husband , hugging or kissing him in public , behaving like a loving wife . |
| 21 | You could n't just walk into it casually , as he had done , drop home from the office and decide to eradicate her on the spur of the moment . |
| 22 | But such criticisms were rebutted this week by Selina herself with the simple argument that whatever her talents are , one of them lies in getting people to watch her on the television . |
| 23 | He agreed to marry her on the understanding that he could bow out if and when something better turned up . |
| 24 | There 's only one woman in my life , and that is Sister Bernadette of the Nansen Trust , and when we 're through I 'd like you to ask the office to get her on the phone for me . |
| 25 | He goes , no , you 're not supposed to do it like that you 're supposed to get her on the floor and step on her head ! you 're not doing it right ! |
| 26 | Mind , he 'd crashed in on the situation pretty damn quickly , stepping in and being nice to her almost before she had dried her eyes , trying to get her on the rebound . |
| 27 | He drove grimly and skilfully and he drove very fast as if he could not wait to get her on the plane to England and out of his sight . |
| 28 | Her first step was to contact a solicitor to advise her on the wording of any reply to Prince Philip 's devastating letter . |
| 29 | I went up to her after the show to congratulate her on the song which was the best of the night . |
| 30 | From Hamilton came a call from Winnie Ewing to join her on the platform at her eve of poll meeting , which ( as there was no Liberal standing ) I gladly accepted . |