Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] her " in BNC.

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1 Tragedy of twin too weak to survive alone Three-year-old girl dies after 15-hour surgery to separate her from Siamese sister
2 You know we went up new year , after new year to see her er , it were , a lovely , nice Christmas tree in the foyer .
3 He interrupted himself to explain , ‘ I did n't make any false promises or give her a lot of romantic fantasy to persuade her .
4 The murder of a Finnish student a decade ago has remained unsolved despite the use of revolutionary techniques to identify her .
5 Among the gifts they gave her was a sun-lounger and garden table , flowers , pictures , an immaculately iced cake and taped of Irish music to remind her of her homeland .
6 Despite desperate attempts to revive her , the trace remained stubbornly flat , until in the end they had to give up .
7 He orders a crate of champagne and armfuls of red roses to welcome her home .
8 Jay descended from the heights of near madness to wish her a warm good evening .
9 She had lived too long for random encounters to bother her and she was always grateful to the Holy Spirit when He sent something unusual to stir the convent to life .
10 In Britain she 's eligible for legal aid to help her fight the case .
11 He stopped beside her chair , reaching with easy strength to pull her up in front of him .
12 Dozens of youngsters at St George 's RC Primary , Maghull , have sent cards with smiling faces to cheer her up .
13 To maintain her riskless arbitrage , Mary was instantly required to sell her holding in Metal Bashers Ltd , buy shares in British Telecommunications to bring her holding up to 10% of her portfolio and sell part of her holding in each of the other 99 companies to reduce their average weight in her portfolio to 0.909% .
14 She does not wish to conceal this news as she strongly believes that the mind can play a great part in overcoming such a complaint and she asks everyone to join her in positive thinking to help her to fight the illness .
15 But her lovelorn millionaire husband , Bill , had spent more than Pounds 50,000 on private detectives to track her down .
16 She called to Hermione and Joanna and all the girls who had gone already along the paths she had rejected , called to them to wait for her and place their steady walking boots on solid earth to catch her .
17 Yet if Elizabeth relied more heavily than her predecessors on direct taxation to carry her through the years of peace , she showed a greater reluctance than her father to squeeze the country heavily in times of war .
18 ‘ She has appealed to industrial leaders to help her redress the trade imbalance . ’
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