Example sentences of "[to-vb] her [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a comment on Eve 's lofty nature she notes that the serpent ‘ did not try to tempt her from the path of duty by brilliant jewels , rich dresses , worldly luxuries or pleasures , but with the promise of knowledge … and he found in the woman that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasures of picking flowers and talking with Adam did not satisfy ’ . |
| 2 | Assuming that she is asymptomatic , she either depends on the male who infected her to inform her of the diagnosis or , if he does not , wait for the next person with whom she has intercourse to develop symptoms , discover the diagnosis , and then contact her with the bad news . |
| 3 | He had begun to coax her in the direction of her room now , the drinks tray left forgotten on the counter-top , and she went along helplessly , carried by the tide of his will and of her own incurable need to be with him . |
| 4 | I would need to do more than just win this game , I would need to annihilate her like the cockerel ; more , I would need to break her completely . |
| 5 | France and Belgium were the two lesser industrial powers and although France had been a big eighteenth-century producer of coal , her resources were unable to provide her with the fuel she needed for industry on the German scale . |
| 6 | Of course , where Dorothy was concerned , that was his only strategy if he wanted to secure her in the end . |
| 7 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 8 | There were photographs of her in the few parts she had been able to play in the years following her marriage ; photographs of her in youth , when her father had begun to launch her on the career which would be interrupted by the coming of Paul . |
| 9 | I had to isolate her from the rest . ’ |
| 10 | She was disappointed that he had n't arranged to meet her during the afternoon or even later on . |
| 11 | Benny knew they would come to meet her off the bus . |
| 12 | I have to meet her at the airport . ’ |
| 13 | On the morning of the day when Therese Aschmann was due to arrive in Hochhauser , Willi spent a long time getting ready before he went to meet her at the station . |
| 14 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |
| 15 | He might even have been planning to meet her at the restaurant direct … |
| 16 | She 's a friend of Bertice Reading , who is working at the Prince of Wales Theatre , so I arranged to meet her at the stage door at 2 o'clock . |
| 17 | My sister 's job was to meet her at the bus stop with the wheel basket so she did n't have to carry it up the road . |
| 18 | We fall asleep instantly and do not wake until five-thirty when Crilly 's sister Megan phones , instructing us to meet her at the hospital . |
| 19 | It never was when she invited him to meet her at the flat ; she was keeping him and Stock out of each other 's way . |
| 20 | As she went she remembered that Angela had promised to meet her at the bus-stop . |
| 21 | Athelstan rubbed his chin with the palm of his hand and remembered he 'd promised Benedicta to meet her at the Fleet prison where Simon the carpenter would spend his last evening on earth . |
| 22 | She ignores me , whining about how he was supposed to meet her at the Bullet 's Head . |
| 23 | One of the cats came to meet her in the wood and accompanied her back into the house . |
| 24 | One source said : ‘ When Rose arrived in Perth , the old money prepared to accept her around the scene . |
| 25 | Sheila , however , hung grimly on to it , whereupon the boy began to pull her along the path . |
| 26 | As she leaned into the car , the attacker grabbed her and tried to pull her into the vehicle . |
| 27 | She said she ‘ hollered ’ at it three times not to pull her in the water . |
| 28 | With his usual lightning-swift reactions he took advantage of the moment to pull her from the bed , and as she stumbled against him , his arms tightened about her involuntarily . |
| 29 | If a teenager has been feeling acutely depressed for some time , then it may only take a trigger such as exams , to tip her over the edge ( suicide is the third most common cause of death among the under 25s , and the peak months are April to July ) . |
| 30 | Rachel 's pulses thundered as she allowed him to lead her to the dance-floor beneath the flashing lights . |