Example sentences of "be [verb] her [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers …
32 He might have been receiving her in the best parlour on a Sunday afternoon .
33 ( He had been watching her in the shaman 's lodge earlier !
34 It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room .
35 the forces of the countries of the socialist camp are so great today and they are so strong economically that they can fully take upon themselves , on the basis of the development of normal trade relations , the provision of Cuba with all the necessary goods which are denied her by the United States … the Soviet Union is prepared to deliver oil and other goods in amounts fully meeting the requirements of Cuba , in exchange for Cuban goods .
36 It does not help Fergie 's case that the financial expert who has been advising her about the settlement is the same man she has been cavorting with in the south of France .
37 He is seeing her off the premises at this minute . ’
38 Mrs Lydan 's husband Bill died last year but she 'd kept dozens of stones , and pieces of jewellery which he 's given her over the years .
39 ‘ I asked my childminder to do what I do when Laura is naughty , and that is tap her on the hand and tell her ‘ no ’ — and that is all , ’ she explained .
40 But the memory of her sister 's surprising her with the amethyst brooch was like a rubbed sore in her mind .
41 A friend 's meeting her off the boat and driving her up . ’
42 The aim with 78018 is to use her on the former Stockton and Darlington , Stanhope and Tyne Wear Valley routes which are used for summer Sunday pacer trains and cement traffic to Blue Circle 's Eastgate Cement Works the current limit of the line .
43 But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . "
44 and for a treat he 's taking her to the , er nostalgic weekend at
45 Alison 's taking her in the van .
46 No one is fighting her for the task of serving school dinners to the juniors .
47 he 's left her in the car .
48 The only problem is organising her into the boat .
49 Her previous rival , Ann Clwyd , and her small band of supporters , including Brian Sedgemore and Dale Campbell-Savours , are backing her on the grounds of her sex , trapped by their propaganda about the need for a woman in the post .
50 He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time .
51 The order was for the production of material relating to the purchase by a client , Mrs G , of certain real property , the allegation being that she was a member of the family of another person who was suspected of being a drug trafficker and who was using her for the purpose of laundering the proceeds of such trafficking .
52 Yet now he was praising her to the skies .
53 My sister 's job was to meet her at the bus stop with the wheel basket so she did n't have to carry it up the road .
54 But Michele was urging her down the steps , and the gondolier had reached up to assist her into the gently rocking craft .
55 Fabia got out , then found that before she could say a word , Ven was escorting her inside the hotel and waiting with her while she collected her room key .
56 It is her ambition to be tried for her life for murdering a small tobacconist with a meat-cleaver , only to be dramatically cleared when her alibi is established by the bishop who was confirming her at the very moment of the crime .
57 But by then , Nicolo was hurrying her down the steps , out of the building , and into a black Mercedes limousine .
58 Then he was leading her across the terrace and through the open doors of the villa , across the drawing-room and out into the hall .
59 He was leading her to the edge of the dance-floor .
60 On long strides he was leading her towards the door , oblivious to her inner anguish .
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