Example sentences of "[to-vb] her [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They threatened that , if he did not co-operate , the Northern Ireland emergency powers of detention would be used to intern her as a dangerous subversive . |
| 2 | Alice Perrers 's intimacy with the king began in the 1360s , and she received lavish gifts of jewellery and clothes , together with enough property to establish her as a substantial landowner in her own right . |
| 3 | ( II.iv.42 ) — but proceeds to proposition her with a debased contract , that she should exchange her chastity for her brother 's life . |
| 4 | A further £265,000 will be invested in a fund to provide her with a tax-free , inflation-proof income for life . |
| 5 | The story of Gilly Hopkins is very sad : Gilly has the opportunity to gain everything she 's always wanted — someone who cares about her and forgives her and is willing to provide her with a loving home , but Gilly throws all this away simply by writing a letter when she 's feeling very upset . |
| 6 | And it would be nice if you were to provide her with a little brother or sister . ’ |
| 7 | The therapist agreed to see Pamela as in outpatient in 5 days ' time to provide her with a further chance to talk about her difficulties and also to provide her with support . |
| 8 | In 1989 , the wife of the " Yorkshire Ripper " was awarded £600,000 by a jury to compensate her for a false story in " Private Eye " , published eight years previously , to the effect that she had been prepared to sell her story to newspapers . |
| 9 | Gently , he began to massage her with a greasy perfumed oil . |
| 10 | After the series of treaties in 1854 – 58 which helped to launch her on a rapid and irreversible process of change it could even still be questioned whether full-scale diplomatic representation there was worth what it cost . |
| 11 | So impressed was I that I took Hellen to meet her at a later performance the same week . |
| 12 | The words in fact are intended to reflect her night-time , miserable feelings but they only reflect Masefield 's failure to render her as a human being : |
| 13 | Right wing soldiers in the Philippines have written to national newspapers saying they intend to launch a bloodless coup against President Corizon Aquino , and to replace her with a military junta . |
| 14 | Another good lesson came in the shape of a small bent old lady , with moth-eaten woollen gloves , who always singled me out to serve her with a dozen cracked eggs that were extremely cheap . |
| 15 | He kept her prisoner in her own home and threatened to electrocute her on a sunbed and burn her with an iron . |
| 16 | ‘ She also told me she is going to ask you to help her in a little project , ’ he said , grinning mischievously . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The crew tried to sail her through a narrow gap at a bridge in Purton . |
| 19 | By then she felt that she had seen enough paintings , churches , marble floors and medieval palaces to last her for a long time . |
| 20 | Of course the Palace ca n't afford to leave her as a loose cannon . |
| 21 | God knows , I have little enough to give her in a worldly sense . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ We do n't want to put her under a great deal of pressure after what she 's been through . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Oh no , we 'll pay to keep her for a long time |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In 1925 the ship was bought by a Glasgow shipowner who planned to convert her to a nautical museum . |
| 30 | He would take frustrating and puzzling journeys on the serpentine British railways to see her for a snatched fraction of a weekend in a provincial rep . |