Example sentences of "[to-vb] her [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a comment on Eve 's lofty nature she notes that the serpent ‘ did not try to tempt her from the path of duty by brilliant jewels , rich dresses , worldly luxuries or pleasures , but with the promise of knowledge … and he found in the woman that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasures of picking flowers and talking with Adam did not satisfy ’ . |
| 2 | Assuming that she is asymptomatic , she either depends on the male who infected her to inform her of the diagnosis or , if he does not , wait for the next person with whom she has intercourse to develop symptoms , discover the diagnosis , and then contact her with the bad news . |
| 3 | It was as if some gigantic cork was being used to plug her like a bottle of rare wine . |
| 4 | The young man 's intentions had been honourable and he had asked his father to obtain her as a bride . |
| 5 | He had begun to coax her in the direction of her room now , the drinks tray left forgotten on the counter-top , and she went along helplessly , carried by the tide of his will and of her own incurable need to be with him . |
| 6 | I would need to do more than just win this game , I would need to annihilate her like the cockerel ; more , I would need to break her completely . |
| 7 | The fact that he had never asked the man if he 'd been able to fix the problem , Folly suddenly realised , was proof enough that the supposedly leaky tap was just an excuse to provide her with a chaperon . |
| 8 | Armed with a loaded airgun , two smoke bombs and a knife , he held up a building society to provide her with a nest-egg . |
| 9 | France and Belgium were the two lesser industrial powers and although France had been a big eighteenth-century producer of coal , her resources were unable to provide her with the fuel she needed for industry on the German scale . |
| 10 | She obviously had n't expected Jessamy to provide her with an excuse for staying longer at the house . |
| 11 | Of course , where Dorothy was concerned , that was his only strategy if he wanted to secure her in the end . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Some connection having been made in his mind , he began to rebuke her for a belief in the reality of Noah 's Ark , which he referred to sarcastically as the Myth of the Deluge . |
| 14 | Katherine 's very presence seemed to provoke her at every turn . |
| 15 | Or was he just trying to provoke her into an argument for the sheer hell of it ? |
| 16 | He would have to train her to a line . |
| 17 | Then Amanda had turned up on her own at Meg 's leaving party , and he 'd managed to monopolise her in a corner of Meg 's kitchen . |
| 18 | How could he do this to her — forever turning up when he was least expected and always managing to catch her at a disadvantage ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I had to isolate her from the rest . ’ |
| 21 | The two newspapers reporting this case both focused on his claim that sex taunts from his 56-year-old wife over his impotency provoked him to strangle her with a flex . |
| 22 | It was here that the great receptions and gala balls took place , though it was not the setting for the traditional New Year 's ambassadorial reception as described by Hubner , which was that of the Throne part played by the Empress , since this was her first appearance at such a function and it thus enables us to observe her on an occasion of high formality : |
| 23 | She was disappointed that he had n't arranged to meet her during the afternoon or even later on . |
| 24 | ‘ I was wondering whether you 'd arranged to meet her for a talk — to break the news to her ? ’ |
| 25 | Benny knew they would come to meet her off the bus . |
| 26 | An RIB ( Rigid Inflatable Boat with a ninety-horsepower outboard engine , capable of nearly forty knots ) races out to meet her with the operations captain and a customs officer on board . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I have to meet her at the airport . ’ |
| 29 | On the morning of the day when Therese Aschmann was due to arrive in Hochhauser , Willi spent a long time getting ready before he went to meet her at the station . |
| 30 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |