Example sentences of "[vb infin] her [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What , Mo asked , would tempt her back to the polling booths ? |
| 2 | She lets me furl her around for a while , and makes those shammy gasps she knows I like , and gives detailed promise of all that cocked and candid talent — before she calls a halt , slithers off the bed , corrects her clothing , brushes her hair , changes her shoes , powders her nose , slides my Johnson out of her mouth and insists on lunch . |
| 3 | She will try to accept the fact , as she takes her mother 's ‘ elevenses ’ in to her , that any attempt she may make to start a discussion of something that might not be of immediate interest to her mother may be turned off suddenly like a switch , and will plunge her temporarily into an emotional darkness in which she will feel very much alone . |
| 4 | She never noticed if Alexandra was fully dressed or had stumbled straight from sleep in her night clothes but would welcome her always with the sweetest of smiles and a gentle reproof for leaving her alone . |
| 5 | But he wanted to keep her with him , to help her with her reading and studying , so that he could present her proudly as a lady to his parents . |
| 6 | In the end she saw the giant fish-hooks come down down into her and she thought they would haul her out of the depths , but they did not . |
| 7 | ‘ We must carry her up to the sick-room . ’ |
| 8 | If she could not get out the train would carry her on to the next station , to London Bridge , it would carry her on under the river . |
| 9 | If she could not get out the train would carry her on to the next station , to London Bridge , it would carry her on under the river . |
| 10 | ‘ Lachlan Cattanach , ’ Farquhar said sternly one day , ‘ will you for God 's sake be either forgetting the lass , or letting me carry her away up the hill for you ? |
| 11 | I had n't seen them carry her in from the car so it was a terrible shock for me . |
| 12 | Those previous kisses had had meaning after all , and now he had only to utter those three little words that would send her up into the clouds . |
| 13 | ‘ You could send her away to a school . ’ |
| 14 | Both of them realised that he had abandoned all pretence that Sally-Anne was an ordinary young woman come to work in Vetch Street , but neither of them pursued the matter , Dr Neil from delicacy , and Sally-Anne because she could not tell him the real truth about herself — he would undoubtedly immediately send her back to the embassy , and she did not want that at all — it would be failure . |
| 15 | We 'll send her out with a list then . |
| 16 | Rab said , ‘ I 'll send her out tae the chemist . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ That person is here again , Miss Grenfell , she says she has slippers for you , shall I show her in for the fitting ? ’ |
| 18 | But the bottle helped then , helped dull the pain , helped quell the shivering , helped ease her back into a dreamless sleep . |
| 19 | It occurred to her that he could tip her out of the window without any effort at all , and she shrank back . |
| 20 | In a moment he let her go , but only so that he might lift her bodily from the ground . |
| 21 | Sycorax no longer leaked whatever liquids or foods she was able to consume , as she had during the worst of her fever , and Ariel could prop her up into a sitting position , and then , presenting her shoulders to her , go down on one knee to hoist her piggy-back and carry her to the privy in the forest a few minutes ' walk away . |
| 22 | Although there was not one single reason why Harry might suddenly see her not as a sister or friend but as a woman he might fall in love with , deep down inside she still hoped that this unlikely miracle could occur . |
| 23 | They would see her through until the evening . |
| 24 | ‘ She 's sedated quite heavily , and the doctor will see her again in the morning to get a more thorough picture of things . |
| 25 | Dulé leaned to look at the dark husk that was the old woman 's body ; shadows bound the close air inside the room and he could see her only as a lighter shape . |
| 26 | ‘ The shops here are very good , but Dana is inclined to turn her nose up at anything outside London or Paris , so I imagine an hour could see her back at the flat . ’ |
| 27 | She was particularly fun in the choppier water when we could steer her accurately onto the face of the wave of our choice and drive her through the trough at full tilt . |
| 28 | Lesley-Jane could not keep her back to the door indefinitely and turned . |
| 29 | That 's why we 'll keep her in for a week or so , for tests , but our consultant is very pleased with her — and very optimistic . |
| 30 | How can I just ring her out of the blue and tell her that her daughter has married the first Italian she 's met , without telling any of us ? ’ |