Example sentences of "she [modal v] [vb infin] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His verbal rockets would doubtless already be primed , but she must defuse them by getting in first and establishing that the woman he faced today was a woman of determination , a woman prepared to fight , a woman who would be a fearsome opponent in any battle . |
| 2 | Before she finished here and made her way to the sitting room , there were certain things she must say to Cissie , and she must say them without alarming the girl , yet , at the same time , make her aware that she was no longer a child , that she already had the mark of a woman on her . |
| 3 | There were reports that senior ministers were insisting that if she failed to secure outright victory , she should consult them before deciding to carry on . |
| 4 | She may feel more in control if she takes her bill herself to the Department of Social Security , having been guided by the adviser that she should ask them about the ‘ fuel direct ’ scheme that will debit her benefits automatically and prevent disconnection . |
| 5 | If the hon. Lady has anxieties , she should address them to Greater Glasgow health board , which is responsible for delivering the service . |
| 6 | Or she might call them from a telephone box on a lonely road . |
| 7 | Amy 's three tomorrow , so she 'll give them to her tomorrow , she |
| 8 | Her girlfriends , particularly her former flatmates , would have rallied round but she did not feel that she could inflict them with such a burden of responsibility . |
| 9 | She saved her curses until she could shout them into the night — then swallowed them anyway out of paranoia . |
| 10 | The Beastline were interested in all she could tell them of Tara and of the exiled Court . |
| 11 | Marie yelled after me to wait but I did n't want to talk to her about it so I chucked my sandwich-box over to her and told her she could eat them for me . |
| 12 | Julia could n't sleep because she could smell them in her room , so she came into my room to talk to me . |
| 13 | The officer said she believed she could link them to the offence . |
| 14 | With an effort , she drove from her mind the thought of the return journey , filling it instead with the experience of the moment , absorbing the sights , the impressions and sensations , storing them in her brain , wishing she had a notebook with her so that she could record them in all their vividness and immediacy . |
| 15 | She had bought some cigarettes for John and was wondering when she could give them to him . |
| 16 | I 'll put them in the bin then , ’ she replied , but before she could get them off the cart he handed us the balloons . |
| 17 | She could supply them with a few answers . |
| 18 | There was nothing for it but that she visit the company directors in person and see if she could persuade them of her determination to rebuild the business . |
| 19 | I mean I do n't know whether she thought she could put them in the garden when she got to the new place and they 'd grow but |
| 20 | Once aboard , she found she could let them off the leash . |
| 21 | She 'd pull them off the stalks . |
| 22 | And all that , or at Betty 's or , what have you , I do n't think she 'd leave them with the mother-in-law |
| 23 | And then she 'd type them on this special machine that had indelible ink in it . |
| 24 | She 'd phone them at the very first opportunity , knowing how they would have worried . |
| 25 | She would bribe them with love : " Just a handful , a small handful , Fagan , " she pleaded . |
| 26 | She would hide them beneath her underwear until she could figure out a better place . |
| 27 | She would visit them at home at times , and have them spend an evening with her , with or without boy-friends . |
| 28 | She would urge them to either aim to become local councillors and get involved in important decision-making , or lobby the authorities to take more steps to protect the environment by providing more things like facilities for recycling household refuse . |
| 29 | She walked down Chestnut Drive , and as she picked a leaf off a privet hedge here , and ran her hand along a row of railings there , she thought that it was not so bad after all , and that she would tell them about it : they always said , when accused of indifference , that they were interested , so she would jolly well try to make them show a bit of their interest . |
| 30 | She would occasionally reward Thatcherite newspapers , such as the Express , with a gracious , unrevealing interview ; on television , Sir Robin Day and Brian Walden would flatter her by pretending to be tough , and she would flatter them by pretending they were . |