Example sentences of "[vb infin] she [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he felt sure he would win her in the end , he was annoyed at her continuing coyness . |
| 2 | Neither of them knew her well , but they would recognise her as the secretary of someone important in the administration . |
| 3 | She hoped that if he was a churchgoer-which was unlikely these days he would not recognise her as the vicar 's wife . |
| 4 | Carole King , the sharpest female lyricist of all time , ponders going all the way and whether her lover would still respect her in the morning . |
| 5 | Then I shall batter her with the club for the same amount of time . |
| 6 | Now why do n't you introduce her to the office routine — and perhaps show her the chalets ? ’ |
| 7 | She would n't trust her to the end of the street . |
| 8 | She heard a muttered curse , she saw a shadow across the french window at the end of the room , she felt someone catch her round the waist and drag her to the ground . |
| 9 | ‘ My office sought to arrange an interview with the Secretary of State for Employment so I could brief her on the situation . |
| 10 | Your sick parent must be mentally fit to make this decision of her own free will , and it does not rob her of the right to make her own decisions as to the spending of her money or her free access to it . |
| 11 | Take it step by step , but do not jab her in the mouth and be FAIR but FIRM . |
| 12 | Yet I can only picture her in the posture of Candice Riberon in Le Métro lying on her back , her face caught in an agony of uncertain provenance . |
| 13 | We must bring her into the Hall . ’ |
| 14 | She had thought then he would bring her into the shop , as he had herself , and trained her into the business , not only the confectionery and tobacconists , but the little factory across the yard where they made most of their boiled sweets and toffee . |
| 15 | We could n't bring her into the house because we had an old cat and we had no spare kennels , so that just left the caravan . |
| 16 | She imagined that to walk that track , and to climb the rough hewn rock around the mouth of the cave , would bring her to the top of the canyon . |
| 17 | Her brain raced over and over what her mother would say , how awful she would feel , what she ought to do , until she felt that the movement in her head would spin her off the bed and send her whirling round the room . |
| 18 | She was more rueful than ever , so that Charles stopped dancing and if he did n't quite haul her off the dance floor , he was rather brusque . |
| 19 | It protested at once , so she let him carry her to the living-room . |
| 20 | Now , though , she was sitting in the dressing-room , not even sure if she could persuade her legs to stand up and carry her to the stage . |
| 21 | She had said he must marry only so as not to disappoint his mother ; but should he come to her one day and say he was about to marry someone , that would assuredly beat her into the ground . |
| 22 | Or if this is the whim of some trouble-stirring witch , you must beat her to the ground and punish her . |
| 23 | The superior knowledge of the teacher does not automatically invest her with the right to place students in an intellectual straitjacket , nor does volunteering to be a nurse mean that one has automatically signed away one 's rights as a human being . |
| 24 | She might feel compelled to attack him physically at any moment and he was alarming enough to convince her that he would lift her in the air , shake her like a rag doll and toss her over a crag . |
| 25 | Will your coat need cleaning ? ’ she asked anxiously , hoping he would n't land her with the bill . |
| 26 | I 'll charm her from the tree . |
| 27 | A worthy father should pass the tests of strength and endurance , and so she rewards the efforts of those who are still fit enough to subdue and defend her at the end of the arduous rut . |
| 28 | ‘ She never mentioned my having got stuck here as well , but I could hardly look her in the face . |
| 29 | The fact that the Superintendent could not look her in the eye was not lost on Kate . |
| 30 | Why had he refused to let them meet her when they would certainly see her at the hacienda ? |