Example sentences of "[vb infin] her [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 | She smiled as her father began : he would have been happy being a teacher ; he had often told her that and at one stage — in the nature of parents ' bequeathing unfulfilled ambitions to their children — he had hoped that Mr Fenton might consider her as a pupil teacher ( just for the mornings , of course , he needed her the rest of the day ) . |
3 | The outspoken Mrs Clinton , an assertive Leftish lawyer , has already become a campaign issue because of a scathing remark she made about women who ‘ stay at home and bake cookies ’ and because Mr Clinton says he will consider her for a job in his Cabinet once he wins the White House . |
4 | Neither of them knew her well , but they would recognise her as the secretary of someone important in the administration . |
5 | She hoped that if he was a churchgoer-which was unlikely these days he would not recognise her as the vicar 's wife . |
6 | I ca n't respect her as an aunt . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Then I shall batter her with the club for the same amount of time . |
9 | We usually manage to provide every new member or new mum with a contact who can introduce her to the NCT and chat over any everyday difficulties . |
10 | Now why do n't you introduce her to the office routine — and perhaps show her the chalets ? ’ |
11 | The wages , he did n't trust her with the wages . |
12 | She would n't trust her to the end of the street . |
13 | She 's marvellously competent , you can always trust her in an emergency . |
14 | Had he viewed her as an exciting and unusual lay , and believed that she would n't let him screw her without a hard-luck , my wife-doesn't-understand-me line to spin ? |
15 | That kind of insight can free her from the constraints of the inner voice which effectively commands her , ‘ Turn right here . |
16 | I suppose they might try and sellotape her to the walls of their cells . |
17 | I feel I know her like a sister now — she 's younger than I am — but she never told me about the twins . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | ‘ My office sought to arrange an interview with the Secretary of State for Employment so I could brief her on the situation . |
20 | Or perhaps she could be like Merlyn Joseph and find herself a rich man who would install her in a yacht . |
21 | This being a movie , Sandra is recognised , by a young American woman who won her place in the workshop in a competition and who now , shyly , politely , asks if she can trouble her for an autograph . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Take it step by step , but do not jab her in the mouth and be FAIR but FIRM . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | We must bring her into the Hall . ’ |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | Lady Miriam 's three-year-old granddaughter , Franchesca Hubbard , will present her with a posy of flowers when she arrives . |