Example sentences of "[vb infin] her [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | might tempt her to the wrong thoughts . |
| 2 | In the meantime , while your kitten is polishing her hunting skills by stalking your feet , you can introduce her to the civilised way to eat . |
| 3 | ( The truth is I do n't want to forgive her , because it will free her from the grappling irons I have on her . |
| 4 | Her bedside book , often reread , was Anthony Trollope 's The Small House at Allington but tonight it could no longer translate her to the reassuring , comfortable , nostalgic world of Barsetshire , to croquet on Mrs Dale 's lawn and dinner at the squire 's table . |
| 5 | She hopes it 'll rid her of the physical and emotional pain . |
| 6 | The same happened at the Commonwealth Tournament later in the year — and to this day she wonders if this behaviour had something to do with the fact that the selectors did not include her in the 1984 match at Muirfield . |
| 7 | Faintly disappointed , she emptied her lungs and resumed the walk which would bring her to the main gate . |
| 8 | Jill nodded , standing aside to let Lindsey precede her into the small side ward . |
| 9 | She had n't guessed it would land her in the thick of a family feud . |
| 10 | Without warning she reached her hand sideways and took mine and pressed it , as if to give me courage ; and perhaps to make me identify her with the original , gentle Lily . |
| 11 | Let him see her as the successful career-woman she was . |
| 12 | This was discussed at length with Janet , after which it was agreed that the therapist would see her for the next 2 months at fortnightly intervals and that no more than one telephone call per week would be acceptable . |
| 13 | For a long while , I could see her in the rear-view mirror , standing in the dusty road in her long white dress , holding her child and looking after the Felder . |
| 14 | It was n't as if he could see her in the flimsy satin nightdress , was it ? |
| 15 | He would see her in the old holey woollies she wore to bed , rather than an old-fashioned nightshirt . |
| 16 | Would that remove her from the ordinary people ? |
| 17 | She would run around her pen at such speed that the centrifugal force would keep her on the vertical walls like a Wall of Death rider . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ I will keep her on the same round but I will keep an eye on her and may switch the rounds . |
| 19 | She let him drown her in the deep water , too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him . |
| 20 | Robyn entered the tiny shop and bought at random , grabbing anything that was familiar — an odd assortment of things that would sustain her with the least amount of effort , paying her money to the assistant vaguely , absent-mindedly . |
| 21 | Christine I said we 'd meet her by the baked beans so |
| 22 | His last thoughts were that he would make amends for this day ; he could baptise the maiden , they could be saved together , they could marry , he would love her , his heathen maiden , no , his heathen hoyden , he liked the rhyming of that , heathen hoyden , he would cherish her beneath the fruit-laden tree . |
| 23 | Dorothy would leave and abandon her at the very idea . |
| 24 | ‘ But if that had been somebody else doing that to you … ’ she says softly , so that I can hardly hear her over the quiet thunder of the shower . |
| 25 | With a timid child , you can take her to the mum-and-toddler group , but you ca n't make her play . |
| 26 | Walking up three steps , she was soon in the foyer of the block of apartments she 'd set out to find , and pressing the button in the lift which would take her to the top floor . |
| 27 | ‘ Why did n't anyone take her to the veterinary hospital ? |
| 28 | This was a Monday night and the early show of a week 's run in a tour which would take her round the Eastern States , and hopefully into New York for the spring of 1913 , that is if audiences took to her in this first week . |
| 29 | She shines , too : one never could ignore her despite the enormous charm of her victims come to seek their revenge , first in Saks 's gloomy room then in his enchanted Gauguin -esque forest , whose colours the child herself might have smeared on the walls with sticky fists . |
| 30 | But a childhood gaining a reputation as an impulsive scatterbrain should n't preclude her from the same opportunities and privileges her brother received , should it ? |