Example sentences of "her [adv] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She handed him the tube , being fairly and correctly sure he would not ask her outright to rub it in for him . |
| 2 | People I had n't yet identified beckoned her eagerly to join them , which she did with the ravishing smile she had loosed once or twice in my direction . |
| 3 | He allowed her gently to propel him towards the sitting room , all the while murmuring , ‘ Always puzzled me … always puzzled me . ’ |
| 4 | Roman put his hands on her shoulders and turned her gently to face him . |
| 5 | His hands were on her shoulders , turning her gently to face him . |
| 6 | It did n't take her long to decide she had precisely two choices — well , one , really , because even though it was n't cold it would look wrong to go out in thin cotton to the sort of party he was talking about . |
| 7 | I imagine it would n't have taken her long to captivate you . |
| 8 | The thought sobered her enough to allow him to urge her onwards . |
| 9 | But he disliked her enough to postpone it . |
| 10 | That fact had aroused her enough to make her display her feminine assets to best advantage . |
| 11 | He drew her down to kiss her . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | the first night sh we run her down to meet him right , me and him , I said oh go on Donna , said he 's a nice bloke , he 's not nice looking in fact he 's nothing , you know , nice looking at all but he 's a nice bloke , he got a , you know , bit of money and all that . |
| 14 | I rushed her over to see him as soon as I could but he was still drugged up after the operation . ’ |
| 15 | She spoke with Lord Furness for a few minutes , and then Lady Furness brought her over to see me . |
| 16 | Jay had asked her over to show her off to her four oldest friends . |
| 17 | He took her through to show her the four-roomed suite that was his private living space within Liston Hall . |
| 18 | Greimas maps onto his diagram Propp 's basic narrative chiasmus : traitor ravishes king 's daughter and transfers her elsewhere to hide her , hero finds somewhere king 's daughter and gives her back to her parents . |
| 19 | She was n't mean about it , she was very grateful to have someone to talk to and I used to try to spend a lot of time with her just to cheer her up — you know , walk the dog with her and go shopping — just do all the things that would help . |
| 20 | They begged her not to take it so much to heart and pleaded with Ken to regard it all as a joke not to be treated seriously . |
| 21 | I told her not to turn it |
| 22 | I 'd long since given up trying to get her not to call me that . |
| 23 | John told Anne that this was embarkation leave and he would soon be going to France but warned her not to mention it to anyone . |
| 24 | In the end , I urged her not to do it . ’ |
| 25 | How many times had I told her not to do it ? — to wait . |
| 26 | In fact the first thing I did was ring my 35-year-old daughter who has been a ‘ fitness freak ’ ever since Jane Fonda took to jumping about our TV screens and warned her not to overdo it if she intended to buy the tape — which I am certain she does . |
| 27 | He , previously so detached , was now begging her not to leave him . |
| 28 | The look he gave her decided her not to press him . |
| 29 | He asked her not to remember him as a bad man but as someone who had made a mistake . |
| 30 | Linda Baughan , Donald 's sister-in-law , said he was still in love with his wife and had begged her not to divorce him . |