Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sarella ? ’ he murmured , shifting his weight a little to enable her to continue her first tentative exploration . |
| 2 | She hopped down to the floor , but it seemed further away than she had expected and now suddenly it was rising up crazily to meet her . |
| 3 | Clare walked down slowly to meet her . |
| 4 | I should have knelt beside her and put my arms around her and promised her that she would be freed from the hell of anhedonia , and that there really was a God and that she did have the strength to tear herself free from cocaine , as others had freed themselves , and I should have assured her that there was true happiness without a drug , but I did not know her well enough to embrace her , so I just let her weep as the sun streaked up in glory from the east . |
| 5 | She had no way of telling how deep it was , but it was narrow enough to support her easily if she slipped or lost her hold . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said , again , as though it were the most reasonable thing in the world , but she saw that her mother looked worried , and that doubtless Papa was behaving as he did because he had been worried about her , his darling , whom he had sent away from him , only to lose her in a foreign country — for that was what Britain was . |
| 7 | He looked angry enough to whip her and Maggie had difficulty standing her ground . |
| 8 | The justification for reserving this not uninfluential role to a small number of wealthy , landed families was that since they had to act as the Queen 's hosts when she visited the county , they needed a house big enough to accommodate her and her entourage . |
| 9 | Merely to connect her with the Battle of Trafalgar liquefied him a little further because it moved him . |
| 10 | As she could n't yet swim properly the current might be strong enough to carry her away . |
| 11 | How could he hold her so tenderly one moment , only to treat her like this the next ? |
| 12 | He did not know Taheb well enough to trust her yet . |
| 13 | She looked into the forest to see if the rest of the Women were close enough to catch her , if she could evade these few … |
| 14 | It hurt enough to frighten her and she was not a woman easily frightened . |
| 15 | Enough to frighten her obviously ? |
| 16 | It took me a few minutes to feel brave enough to try her again . |
| 17 | But George Felse had come halfway to meet her . |
| 18 | She caught a glimpse of a disfigured , oddly proportioned face in the depths of the shadowy hood , but this was n't enough to distract her from her purpose . |
| 19 | Neither are victims of racial harassment always poor women : Ms Z is divorced , lives on her own , and was fortunate enough to secure her home as part of the divorce settlement . |
| 20 | Joanne ca n't sit still long enough to feed her , but I love it . |
| 21 | He had toyed with the idea of marriage , flirted with it only to tease her before his godmother 's death . |
| 22 | In the NI 's first editorial by a woman , Maggie Black described the beauty of a 15-year-old Ethiopian girl she met on the road to Selekleka and mourned the transience of that beauty ‘ if policies do n't change fast enough to avoid her back being bent , her hands calloused , her body broken , by the time she is 30 ’ . |
| 23 | Similarly , the thematic structure of the novel vaguely follows Propp 's paradigm : Armel takes Larissa into matrimony only to betray her ; Stavro , a gallant but naïve young man , ‘ saves ’ Larissa , begging her to marry him and go with him to Peru , or : ‘ The anti-hero anti-rescuing her from an anti-monster in an anti-romanzo ’ ( 149/727 ) . |
| 24 | She was woken by one excited bark from Em , sternly quelled , but enough to waken her . |
| 25 | By the time she was 10 , she weighed 11 stone and wore a special tunic at school because she could n't get a uniform big enough to fit her . |
| 26 | On one birthday her friends dubbed together to buy her a necklace decorated with a ‘ D ’ for Diana . |
| 27 | She did n't have long to wait for illumination as he moved swiftly to front her , grabbing her roughly by the shoulders , holding her firmly as if he suspected she was about to take flight . |
| 28 | Yelping in alarm as he tipped her sideways and moved swiftly to trap her beneath him on the sofa , she stared up at him in shock . |
| 29 | The allegation was that she did not do enough to help her , and over a period of time this had made the carer extremely angry , and at the same time made their mother dissatisfied about the care she was receiving . |
| 30 | He bent suddenly to imprison her , his hands gripping the arms of her chair , his face thrust forwards furiously , inches from hers . |