Example sentences of "her [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example : I expect her to obey me when I make a reasonable request or command , so that , if ( say ) I ask her to remain at the table until she 's finished her meal , she does so without endless arguments or fits of temper . |
| 2 | It was this that had precipitated Charley 's act of violence towards Rose , whom he had grabbed as she parked her car , forcing her to drive to the van . |
| 3 | The court heard how in February 1977 he 'd jumped into Janie 's car while it was parked in West London and forced her to drive to the countryside at knife point . |
| 4 | My aunt , the last survivor of my mother 's family , had lost her sister the previous year , and I helped her to arrange for the sale of most of the contents of her house , and for her own establishment in a club . |
| 5 | They agreed that John should let Margaret know that any intervention by her in the debate on immigration would be considered ‘ unhelpful ’ , and should extend an invitation for her to sit on the platform on the Friday afternoon for the Leader 's speech , sitting as far away from Ted Heath as it was humanly possible . |
| 6 | Previous attempts at encouraging her to sit on the lavatory or the potty for this had ended in tantrums and tears so mother had given up trying . |
| 7 | ‘ I tell her to sit at the back of the class , otherwise nobody can see over her head . ’ |
| 8 | And er he apparently told her to sit in the car while he finished his |
| 9 | September 10th was the Saturday following Heather 's visit to Oxford and thus just when Harry would have expected her to proceed to the Skein of Geese . |
| 10 | he 'd asked her to go on the pill . |
| 11 | And then , the next job was to make a a a crate for her to go on the railway do you see . |
| 12 | That was why I wanted her to go on the stage … to help get them out . ’ |
| 13 | She did not fire when I asked her to go with the winner and faded right out in the last furlong , ’ said disappointed rider Frankie Dettori . |
| 14 | Her father , Harry Silcock , 66 , told her to go with the baby into a front bedroom and close the door . |
| 15 | After a moment 's pause , Julia asked if he wanted her to go to the telegraph office for him . |
| 16 | He left her to go to the kitchen , began to run the tap , then heard her rise , to dash from the parlour — not , he hoped , to leave the house ; but , going after her , he saw her mounting the stairs to her room , to be away from him , simply because he was , for the moment at least , no longer Dr Neil , but only another member of the sex which had betrayed her . |
| 17 | I urged her to go to the Council and complain . |
| 18 | The traffic was too heavy for her to go to the driver 's side and she stormed along the pavement to the offending car and opened the passenger door . |
| 19 | He did n't ask her to go to the village surgery , but made it clear that she was n't to stray too far from the complex when he was n't there . |
| 20 | Should my hon. Friend happen to be in the Cleveland area , I strongly urge her to go to the South Cleveland hospital to see the excellent work being undertaken there with a bone densitometer . |
| 21 | He was turning away from her to go to the telephone . |
| 22 | Her parents were expecting her to go to the college they themselves had attended . |
| 23 | I 'm thinking of telling my mum what I done and telling her to go to the doctor and tell the doctor that I 'm doing stupid things and that , to get me put away . |
| 24 | Her husband , Vincent , asked her to go to the doctor and have it checked , but Louise held off for nearly four months . |
| 25 | He had waited until the last moment on the Monday afternoon at 3 p.m. to tell her to go to the bank . |
| 26 | If you have applied to vote by proxy and your application is allowed the registration officer will issue your proxy with a ‘ proxy paper ’ which entitles him or her to go to the polling station and vote for you . |
| 27 | He wo n't want her to go to the knacker 's either , I bet . ’ |
| 28 | He asked her to go into the fo'c's'le and as soon as she was inside closed the hatch and said that she could come out when she was ready to apologise . |
| 29 | She suffered one paroxysm of doubt , the first and the last , and a matter of shame to her as often as she remembered it after , when the hour of noon came and passed , and no one sent for her to go into the town and fetch her father to the audience ; and when she ventured to enquire , she was told that one of his Grace 's clerks had already gone to summon Master Parry , and she need not concern herself in the matter . |
| 30 | The Contraalmirante had invited her to dine at the C-in-C 's residence . |