Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] her [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But before Lucy could answer Doreen leaned forward and lied in a sweet voice , ‘ I told Miss Telford that you 'd said for her to get into the bus . |
| 2 | It had hurt almost unbearably earlier , when he had withdrawn from her to lie turned away from her once more , the shoulder he presented to her as eloquent a rejection as his disinclination to touch her . |
| 3 | Their relationship had been coming to an end and Miss Turner 's parents had arranged for her to go on a holiday to America to deter her from seeing him . |
| 4 | I had arranged for her to see a specialist , and he told me the condition was irreversible , that she would never lose her sight completely but that she would be almost totally blind within a year . |
| 5 | She seemed more beautiful than ever , and her manner to me was very pleasant , as I took her to the house in London where Miss Havisham had arranged for her to stay . |
| 6 | Polls suggested that up to one in four Conservative MPs wanted her to go before the next general election : growing numbers of backbenchers were prepared openly to declare that the time had come for her to call it a day . |
| 7 | Lucy knew that the time had come for her to admit to the reason for her visit . |
| 8 | I do n't know why it had occurred to her to make this observation . |
| 9 | Lucy went — and as she walked back to the office she wondered what had got into her to cause such unruliness of her tongue and to bring her claws to the surface . |
| 10 | They met outside the Social Services and he had pleaded with her to return to him and their home in Oxford . |
| 11 | But , cling as she might to the bolster she had taken with her to stop her screams , she could not stop shaking . |
| 12 | It was bitterly resentful , her hatred burning high as she remembered the months running into years that it had taken for her to convince herself that the guilt she had felt after her own father 's death was a self-destructive trap and just one more wrong done to her by Luke Scott . |
| 13 | Then someone had told her that Jerome was dead and had waited for her to cry . |
| 14 | When she was older , he had paid for her to go to school , proud of her ability to read and write and work out figures . |
| 15 | Uncle Vernon had paid for her to study the piano . |