Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maurice had been quite decent , seemed quite upset to see her go , swore he would try and get a divorce , but the old cow would sooner die , you could tell from her photograph . |
| 2 | It had been pleasant to see her flitting about Moorlake , absorbed in her enterprise . |
| 3 | 7 It 's terrific to see her without the bars between us. 8 She sits eating the treat food at the opening to the door and looking at me. 9 How does she know to look into my eyes and not at the huge finger next to her . |
| 4 | It was quite usual to see her standing there baking , one knee on a cushion placed on a stool , to ease the pain . |
| 5 | I 'm not sure Hawick was right for her and I 'd have been sorry to lose her , but that 's beside the point . |
| 6 | We are sorry to lose her . |
| 7 | I was brave and did n't cry or nothing , but I was real sorry to see her go . |
| 8 | Not everyone on the island was sorry to see her go . |
| 9 | We were sorry to see her go . ’ |
| 10 | No one was really sorry to see her go as she was very expensive to maintain and had never been very effective as a revenue vessel . |
| 11 | He had had a few hopes for Sally-Anne Tunstall himself , had been sorry to see her go . |
| 12 | Her legs seemed too weak to carry her back upstairs to the sanctuary of her turret room . |
| 13 | It was also humbling to know her as she was one of the few colleagues to combine the life of a successful international singer with an equally successful marriage ( to the music teacher Paul Blissett ) . |
| 14 | Her family , worried about her health , used every method possible to encourage her to eat . |
| 15 | I thought it would be much easier to see her in those sort of surroundings . |
| 16 | She had grown so tall and disrespectful that the old woman was afraid to hit her . |
| 17 | Probably he knew only that Jehana objected to the idea of marrying Artai , and had been told that her family wished to avoid giving offence by rejecting the suit , and so were willing to see her contracted without the preliminary of a courtship . |
| 18 | But it is just as likely that she will allow one male after another to mount her until her whole circle of admirers has been accommodated . |
| 19 | This rarity — for a woman to have so much power and influence — caused some to compare her to Elizabeth . |
| 20 | Edward VI had n't reached sixteen years of age before he died , in July 1553 , and for just nine days Lady Jane Grey was considered to be Queen Jane , but the country was not prepared to accept her as Queen . |
| 21 | Would he , Edward Carrington , be prepared to meet her ? |
| 22 | No one in the Sudanese government had been willing to meet her , she said , and the Sudanese government had not responded to approaches made by the UK ambassador to Sudan , Allan Ramsay , in his capacity of chairman of the group of west European donor countries in Khartoum . |
| 23 | The story of Gilly Hopkins is very sad : Gilly has the opportunity to gain everything she 's always wanted — someone who cares about her and forgives her and is willing to provide her with a loving home , but Gilly throws all this away simply by writing a letter when she 's feeling very upset . |
| 24 | It was still early , as she could tell from the light filtering through her curtains , and she narrowed her eyes at the sight of a cross Dana , who was obviously prepared to shake her again . |
| 25 | No reason has to be given either to her present doctor or to the one to whom she wishes to change , but undoubtedly it can facilitate the change-over and make the new doctor more likely to be willing to accept her if she has some sensible but low-key reason ready should there be any query . |
| 26 | The law was not formulated so that men and women could exchange favours promiscuously , but rather that a woman , being unable to decide upon a marriage offered to her , might select for herself without prior commitment from the men available and willing to accept her . ’ |
| 27 | She was kidnapped by the storm god but the other gods commanded LOKI to retrieve her , for they all began to age rapidly without her supervision . |
| 28 | He had done this to annoy her ; that was the truth of the matter . |
| 29 | ‘ Less evidence against her , of course , unless Fedorov is prepared to incriminate her . |
| 30 | And , at this stage , it would be quite wrong to rule her out as a suspect . |