Example sentences of "[vb infin] her home " in BNC.

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1 But Emily 's great wish from childhood , confided to her small admirer David on his first visit , is to be a lady , and when her beauty and refinement attract David 's glamorous friend Steerforth , she elopes with him in the hope that he will bring her home a lady .
2 ‘ Well , why do n't you bring her home ?
3 If we can bring her home with us we will .
4 ‘ We are brave , we do bring her home when we can .
5 Sometimes I 'd have to sit with her until she was sober enough to stand and I could shoulder her home , snapping a curt reply , ‘ It 's all right , I can take care of her , ’ to kind enquirers .
6 He was less sympathetic than I would have expected , but I am sure that he will send her home if she is unwell . ’
7 I 'd fetch her home , clean her up , straighten her out and take care of her for as long as she 'd let me , but the call of the wild was strong and after a few days of sleeping on the couch , she 'd vanish again .
8 Bunny said he would see her home .
9 After she had told him , they had n't gone to the pictures for a month , so that he could see her home .
10 That way They could n't follow her home .
11 In one Douglas Fairbanks tells a woman to follow him and when faced with her persistent refusal , arguing as she does that she can not abandon her home , he tethers his horses to the latter and carts the whole house off in a burst of white-toothed laughter .
12 She hoped very much to meet someone this morning , Dorothea perhaps , or Alida Thorne , or Mrs Bottingley , wife of the Rector , for they might invite her home to coffee and she could confide in them .
13 She could not take him back to America with her , he could not take her home .
14 She has only to consent , to be passive , to welcome him and he will take her home , will welcome her into his kingdom and his kingdom will be her flesh .
15 ‘ When can I take her home ? ’
16 Declining to lie , she let the priest take her home , planning to swear the maid to secrecy and slip out of the back door again as soon as he had gone .
17 If she so please , I will take her home with me , and provide her an altar as rich as yours . ’
18 — Amadou does n't take her home to show to Amadé .
19 We 've rung for her mother who 's going to come and take her home .
20 –Whyever do n't you take her home with you to be a lady 's maid ! ’
21 Trevor , a male friend , is trying to persuade Brenda that if she let a man take her home they might sleep together .
22 I 'm gon na take her home .
23 Oh right can we not take her home ?
24 I 've arranged with my mother to er take her home after tea .
25 She did n't have her car so she goes , to Bunnie , you can take her home , yeah ?
26 The actress says she must sell her home to pay .
27 ‘ I do n't think I can have her home .
28 Of course that does n't mean that she does n't leave her home to work , it just means that the home is where she visualizes herself , wherever she is …
29 I says on a night-time , I said , you know , she ca n't leave her home now , I said , she ca n't manage to put coal on fire , and she ca n't manage to get up up to eat and drink and that , I said , I do n't mind dropping off and taking me turn on the night-time but I mean , but it 's hard , it 's hard with me with kids every night .
30 And always she was haunted by the knowledge that if she failed her mother would lose her home .
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