Example sentences of "her [prep] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He explained about the year off and told her about hitchhiking to Greece to sleep on beaches beneath the Mediterranean sky . |
| 2 | He admired her for dealing with it so capably . |
| 3 | The girls at work admired her for living with a man and not being married to him , but she could forgo that pleasure , she thought , for the baby 's sake . |
| 4 | He had never forgiven her for intruding in what he had seen as his family , his responsibility , the only inheritance his father had left him . |
| 5 | Jay 's life had not exactly prepared her for falling In Love , still less for I was never in love with you . |
| 6 | For example , if you wish your ‘ commanding ’ child to wait patiently until a more convenient time for her demands to be met , you could reinforce ( reward ) her for waiting for ( say ) ten seconds , subsequently you would reinforce her for waiting for a longer interval of time , gradually increasing the interval each time you ask her to wait . |
| 7 | For example , if you wish your ‘ commanding ’ child to wait patiently until a more convenient time for her demands to be met , you could reinforce ( reward ) her for waiting for ( say ) ten seconds , subsequently you would reinforce her for waiting for a longer interval of time , gradually increasing the interval each time you ask her to wait . |
| 8 | People had actually laughed at her for asking for a chemistry set instead of a Barbie doll or a set of Nancy Drew books . |
| 9 | It is ironic that the hypocrite , who is seen throughout with a neurotic distrust of women , and whose every second word to his wife is an insult , should finally be exposed by a woman he had trusted , from whom he had snatched the handkerchief without even thinking her worth swearing to secrecy ( III.iii.320ff . ) . |
| 10 | 17.15 : Head asks me to tell Class Teacher that he would like to see her after meeting with parent is over . |
| 11 | He had arranged to meet her after racing in the White Lion at Feltham . |
| 12 | Occasionally , Mr Landor would accuse her of stealing from him when he had mislaid a silver spoon or could not find a precious paperknife , but she had always treated these accusations with the contempt they deserved . |
| 13 | It proved a disastrous union — ‘ Salo ’ , the inferior player , became brutally jealous of his wife 's game , and accused her of flirting with whomever she happened to be playing . |
| 14 | Well , but the child had been good and she would not deprive her of saying to her friends on Monday ‘ I went to the fair ’ . |
| 15 | She would behave like someone who was n't being unfaithful , and nobody could accuse her of behaving like that . |
| 16 | Surely he was n't accusing her of lying about this , too ? |
| 17 | They were more intelligent and versatile than most , and they reminded her of playing with paper aeroplanes during lessons at school . |
| 18 | The earth on her fingers spoke to her , spoke to her of sowing in tears and reaping with joy ; of dying and growing . |
| 19 | In 1916 Pound recommends to the neophyte , Iris Barry , readings in Catullus , Propertius , Horace and Ovid , but warns her against trafficking with Virgil ( or Pindar ) . |
| 20 | You know , once when I was in Wembley like , another thing that I 've noticed that changed in our place at Wembley , like every time I used to go in there , all , well , when I used to be in there , like , all the lads would be in the office with her like talking to her , and laughing and smiling and and she used to be at the desk smiling and everything and now , when I walk in there now it 's only me like on a Saturday , and it 's only her like nobody else is in there with her , she 's al , she always she 's got , I think what 's happened is she got too deep into her work that she 's she just seems to take all her work now and that . |
| 21 | Before she and David were married , Beth had secured his promise that he would never probe into her past , and would not pester her with regard to young Richard 's father . |
| 22 | In his own way he was as dangerous as Marcus — had n't he already trapped her into staying with him longer than she deemed either necessary or wise ? |
| 23 | But gratitude was all she felt , and even that was overshadowed by anger at the way he had blackmailed her into sailing with him . |
| 24 | And why on earth had she allowed Leo to needle her into confiding in him ? |
| 25 | Agnes Jones 's intense religious fervour , which had led her into nursing in the first place , caused Florence Nightingale some anxiety . |
| 26 | ‘ Faulazo , ’ they yelled , as they teased her into crossing in front of them . |
| 27 | What strange quirk of fate had forced her into working for Nathan Bryce — the most handsome , fascinating and ruthless man she had ever met ? |
| 28 | If the wife can so easily dispose of this property , it may be that her husband will coax or bully her into parting with it to him or to his creditors , and so it allows her a privilege which no other grown-up person of sound mind in the country can enjoy . |
| 29 | IN FEBRUARY the High Court in London heard how a Sussex-based antiques dealer knocked on the door of an elderly spinster 's Knightsbridge flat and talked her into parting with an art collection worth more than £30,000 . |
| 30 | Detective Sergeant Mick Ornellus , of Clacton CID , said the two men either offered or already had carried out a number of jobs for her and tricked her into parting with the money . |