Example sentences of "[prep] her [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But such is Rachael 's devotion to Stephen that when his wife , an alcoholic from whom he has parted company , appears at his lodgings , ill and incapable , Rachael looks after her to spare Blackpool the task of doing so . |
| 2 | Alejandro shouted after her to do turns at the canter . |
| 3 | Miss Harrison 's adopted father Godfrey Hutchinson said : ‘ We still do n't know exactly how it happened but we know her boyfriend leapt after her to try to help . |
| 4 | Desmond , after the briefest of mutters , hurried after her to tuck her into the car . |
| 5 | Her eyes flit an almost imperceptible challenge at the white man sitting opposite her to agree that indeed the darkest of dark is the most beautiful . |
| 6 | She was too conscious of Piers lounging in the chair opposite her to relax . |
| 7 | Then he stepped towards her to stand just a couple of feet away . |
| 8 | Lisa watched as he stepped past her to examine the Bentley , running long tanned fingers across the scratched and dented surface . |
| 9 | Suddenly , he was reaching past her to pick up her untouched glass . |
| 10 | He reached past her to pick up the papers , a faint smile curling his chiselled lips as he scanned the typewritten sheets . |
| 11 | It seemed he was deliberately galloping very close past her to upset her chestnut mare , who kept taking off into the pampas . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm going for a walk before breakfast , ’ she said as Iris stepped past her to reach the wardrobe . |
| 13 | He would not have put it past her to make a kind of bargain on that basis . |
| 14 | When he let go of her to shut the door her impatience for him to return was almost more than her body could stand . |
| 15 | The green dress was too long ; she was almost as tall as Alice now , but there was n't so much of her to fill it out . |
| 16 | ‘ It was childish of her to rip up the picture , ’ says Nuala O'Connor . |
| 17 | How naïve of her to let Roman de Sciorto 's powerful charm override her normal caution ! |
| 18 | It was too stupid of her to let the memories come crowding in so easily . |
| 19 | How rotten of her to spread the family troubles all round the town . |
| 20 | For , after all , though she 'd talked about ‘ coming to an arrangement ’ , Ronni had no reason to suspect that Silvia was n't serious about her studies , and it would be wrong of her to give Guido that impression . |
| 21 | ‘ And the lady , it is especially kind of her to allow me to stay . ’ |
| 22 | It was unjust of her to disregard those thumb-sucking years in which Lily had held her close . |
| 23 | How perceptive of her to realize that the entity might thrive on violent opposition . |
| 24 | As Agnes hurried down the street it came to her that it had been tactless of her to talk about life being dull and with no bright future ; for had they any bright future ? |
| 25 | If , as she suspected , Elizabeth was miserable because of that dreary village sawbones , then it was dishonest and unlikeable of her to pretend that it was because of her sister-in-law . |
| 26 | It was wicked of her to take all the love without paying for it . |
| 27 | Oh , how silly of her to take a holiday now ; she 'll have to return almost before she 's got there and she 'll be so tired . |
| 28 | Would it be totally insane of her to agree to his suggestion ? |
| 29 | Enough of her to go round ! |
| 30 | She put a table in front of her to see how she would look from the lecture hall . |