Example sentences of "to protect she [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Nor that the reason she had sent Maggie to an all-girls ' school was not to protect her from evil-minded youths , but to protect her from the sort of teaching that she seemed to be getting .
2 Nor that the reason she had sent Maggie to an all-girls ' school was not to protect her from evil-minded youths , but to protect her from the sort of teaching that she seemed to be getting .
3 FORMER intelligence agent Albert Martins is a man obsessed with his corrupt wife — and will go to any lengths to protect her from herself .
4 He prayed for God to look after her , to protect her from any undue harm .
5 In both cases the creditor had left it to the debtor husband to deal with the surety , his wife , and had done nothing to satisfy itself that she understood what she was doing or to protect her from abuse by the debtor of the influence and reliance that would be likely to be present .
6 He and his sister stood on either side of the bed , bending over her as if to protect her from the perils of the night with their own flesh and bone .
7 When the questions began , as they surely must , there was nothing left within her to protect her from his probing .
8 It was a full minute before she realised that she was looking at a reflection of herself in the polished metal shield that Simon had propped against a tree to protect her from any stray arrows .
9 He had been searching for Morthen , to protect her from his violent half-brother , but she was nowhere to be found .
10 I 'm not saying I condone it , ’ he interpreted her look , ‘ but at the moment maybe it 's all she has to protect her from feelings of inadequacy . ’
11 I 'm sorry , ’ she apologised , her action in not leaving a note seeming poor thanks now that she knew he had only been trying to protect her from himself when he 'd called her clinging .
12 A FORMER pupil of an Edinburgh school has started a £30,000 damages action after claiming staff failed to protect her from bullies .
13 Actress Helena Bonham Carter is the latest victim of obsession , she is asking a court to protect her from a fan who is making her life a misery .
14 THE actress Helena Bonham Carter is asking a court to protect her from an obsessive fan who is making her life a misery .
15 He had tried to protect her from what could be a nasty piece of family history , he reminded himself , and she had refused to be protected .
16 Athelstan pulled Benedicta closer into the side of the house to protect her from any snow falling from the small canopied hood of the doorway .
17 One minute he was kissing her as if he never wanted it to stop , and the next he was trying to protect her in some cryptic , jaded way from a danger that seemed clear to him but was a mystery to her .
18 She wished to bring an action against her employers alleging that they had been negligent in failing adequately to protect her against the known risk of injury from this pupil .
19 She tried to invoke the memory of sudsy hot water to protect her against their smell but it was no help .
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