Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] she [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particularly when she wishes you to escort her back to Les Hiboux . |
| 2 | I 've arranged for you to pick her up from her hotel at four o'clock . ’ |
| 3 | It 's up to you to calm her down and smooth everything over . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Important enough for you to take her out every night , ’ Claudia responded , gasping as she realised she had spoken her thoughts out loud . |
| 5 | ‘ I mentioned to the master that Adèle wanted to be introduced to the ladies , and he asked you to bring her down to meet them this evening . ’ |
| 6 | I paid 100 pesos for them to tidy her up and put her in a 900 peso coffin on which I paid a 200 peso deposit . |
| 7 | ‘ Father Laverty came to see me in hospital two days after the birth and had the nerve to look at my beautiful baby and ask me to put her up for adoption . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd always been good with a sewing machine , ’ she says , ‘ so a kindly neighbour asked me to run her up a few silk separates for the summer holidays . |
| 9 | ‘ Or perhaps you would like me to inveigle her out of her self-imposed purdah and come up here instead of you going down to Four Winds . ’ |
| 10 | If only she could tell him how she longed for him to carry her off , but would n't that make him think her wanton ? |
| 11 | It would be possible for him to wear her down , so she must be ultra-careful and protect herself . |
| 12 | It is not nearly so intriguing for this writer as is the closed book of Vincent 's intimate life in this unlikely household , with a woman who allowed him to clean her up , who tended and fed her like a mother , rocked the cradle of her newborn baby , and shared his food and his room with her . |
| 13 | I expected him to answer her back — there was such a passion in his music , he did n't sound like himself at all , any more than he had looked like himself yesterday — but he just struck the wires of his guitar into a discord and after that there was a beaten silence , and Doris stamped off downstairs again , talking all the way about her poor legs and her poor head . |
| 14 | Wordlessly , she allowed him to lead her on to the roadway and down the hill towards home . |
| 15 | She allowed him to lead her back to the living-room , her defences momentarily lapsed so that when he paused on the threshold to slide an arm around her waist and draw her into his embrace she was too shocked to remonstrate . |
| 16 | Then she turned back to Sam , expecting him to lead her off somewhere at once . |
| 17 | Kate said nothing , just allowed him to lead her out into the winter sunshine towards the waiting car . |
| 18 | She waited , holding her breath , wondering whether he would really answer all the questions that had been buzzing around in her head ever since she had first met him , or whether he would skirt around the subject and depend instead on the overwhelming attraction she felt for him to talk her back into bed . |
| 19 | The words blocked in her throat as her eyes begged him to help her out . |
| 20 | His single-minded pursuit of his objectives — which had originally led him to sweep her off her feet in such a masterly fashion — and his instinctive opposition to the challenge before him now were qualities which Laura found truly admirable . |
| 21 | Ca n't be worse than this , I 'd tell her to cheer her up , but she said oh yes it can . |
| 22 | See the sergeant and ask him to let her out . |
| 23 | She could see Keith , crouched over his papers , and she rapped on the living-room window to tell him to let her in . |
| 24 | Kate knew it was no good resisting , so she meekly allowed him to shepherd her out of the flat down to the basement where he kept his car . |
| 25 | He noted how frequently she made excuses for their hands to touch or for him to lift her down from her horse . |
| 26 | He soon had it back with Granny 's belongings intact , and I could hardly believe my ears and eyes when I heard her thank him and allow him to lift her back onto the driver 's seat , in gratitude for which she kissed him on the cheek . |
| 27 | Tim jumped on her to wake her up but she only said go away , and went back to sleep again . |
| 28 | She had earlier persuaded him to allow her out of the bank in Greater Manchester on the pretext of getting the keys to the safe . |
| 29 | She said nothing , but allowed him to assist her up the steeply rising earth bank . |
| 30 | She felt like that fish caught by the curlew , one part of her praying that he would spit her out again , the other , perversely , longing for him to swallow her up . |