Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] and [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | On her arrival , you invite her to sit down and offer her a cup of tea or coffee , which will have a calming effect , and then , as gently as possible , you break the news , and offer every possible assistance for any arrangements she may have to make . |
| 2 | You know , usually I got to go in and tuck her in and that . |
| 3 | It would be preposterous — and cruel besides — not to go in and comfort her a little . |
| 4 | Well we 'll get the specialist to go in and see her and see what he makes of her , see if he can get her back on her feet . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't you think we ought to go along and support her ? ’ |
| 6 | Now , Miss Gilberd , our valued teacher of the lower forms , will be in classroom 2B to talk to anybody who might wish to go along and see her ; Mr Makepeace will be in 4A ; Mr Farraday in the scientific laboratories , of course ; Mr Coffin in 5B … ’ |
| 7 | Like that 's hard work for Maureen cos she has to go down and help her . |
| 8 | He said she was to go to Ludgate Circus , stand on the south corner of Fleet Street at 6.30 p.m. and wait for a cab to pull in and pick her up . |
| 9 | he 's got to come down and cross her though surely he does , he should |
| 10 | Do n't you love your grandmother enough to come downstairs and give her a little goodbye kiss ? ’ |
| 11 | Alas , I never knew whether Gus survived to come home and marry her . |
| 12 | They fought like tigers for twenty years ; he drank — talk about liking a spot of Christmas cheer , he liked it all the year round — used to come home and beat her " |
| 13 | They were uncertain of her , she could feel it as surely as if they 'd appointed a spokesman to stand up and tell her so . |
| 14 | Now , though , she was sitting in the dressing-room , not even sure if she could persuade her legs to stand up and carry her to the stage . |
| 15 | Lucy wanted to call after Charlie , to beg him to come back and to take her away ; this was all wrong , it was n't the way things were supposed to go at all . |
| 16 | He knew that I would never let him marry her , and , besides , he has a girlfriend of his own , so when I offered him money to go away and leave her alone he stood me off as much as he dared , and collected a big enough stake to marry his girl and start a small business , which , he kindly informed me when he left , he intends to turn into a large one , one day . ’ |
| 17 | She wanted the world to go away and let her live with her lover in a secret palace , give herself over to his embrace , to be beyond responsibility and care and hard work and sanity . |
| 18 | She would not allow it to open up and expose her directly to the moon , and to the distant but approaching dragon . |
| 19 | Now she had got them she just wanted the earth to open up and swallow her . |
| 20 | He had trouble , when she began to cry , her face that of a heartbroken child 's , not to reach out and hold her one last time . |
| 21 | He wanted to reach out and wrap her in his arms , to hold her tight and comfort her , but he had been wrong before . |
| 22 | Yet , though she longed to flee from him , to put huge distances between them , there was something drawing her , some mystery in him that seemed to reach out and take her in its clutches . |
| 23 | I want to reach out and touch her , like she 's just been bereaved . |
| 24 | ‘ Calm yourself , Theda , ’ he said gently , not daring to reach out and touch her , in case his own forced calm should desert him . |
| 25 | Lately however Alison , and sometimes Irina , had decided to walk in and join her , no doubt , as Franca felt , to cheer up the ‘ lonely old creature ’ ; and , in the case of Alison , perhaps to set scenes for some ‘ statement ’ which she felt that Franca might wish to , or indeed ought to , make . |
| 26 | It would n't do for him to look round and see her ; on the other hand , she wanted to reach the shops before he did . |
| 27 | ( Continues to sit up and watch her , rapt . |
| 28 | She signed it because her husband pressed her to do so and told her he was being pressed by Campbell , and because she believed that if she would sign it … it would enable her husband to settle the beer contract . … |
| 29 | He clearly regards the management of the mound as his own particular responsibility and expertise , for if the female comes to the mound to lay at a time when opening it might cause a dangerous fluctuation in its temperature , he will refuse to do so and drives her away . |
| 30 | I stopped when she hissed at me to shut up and let her get on with it . |