Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb mod] [verb] her " in BNC.

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1 She did her best , and bound the stems tightly together with a thread split from a New Zealand flax — nothing must delay her now , or breakfast in the dining room would be over .
2 I excluded the whole of Scotland because she would have been a little too near home — even in Glasgow there was just the chance that someone might find her or she might bump into someone from home . ’
3 After a while , though , she pulled herself together and , leaving one copy on her desk , took the other down to the secretarial room and asked if someone could run her off two more copies , ideally before the board meeting .
4 If only someone could release her from the shackles of loving Adam as easily , she thought ruefully .
5 Rachel asked her to come back after the show , when someone would take her to her sister 's lodgings . ’
6 There was a lot of activity , surely someone would take her across .
7 If it is n't in Mexico I believe someone will cure her .
8 She 's going to sit there in the hospital , and they 'll keep an eye on her and someone will put her on the evening bus , just as she planned .
9 I fucking know nothing 'll bring her back !
10 Nothing 'll stop her . ’
11 She says she did the Byrd show ‘ because I found her a fascinating part of the underground scene in New York , and I felt somebody should expose her to a bigger market .
12 By the way , somebody should tell her .
13 ‘ By the time I get tired of her , nobody 'll want her .
14 nobody 'll have her .
15 She would behave like someone who was n't being unfaithful , and nobody could accuse her of behaving like that .
16 Nobody could blame her for taking life as seriously as she 'd had to , but the way to some kind of peace and personal balance would surely lie in the opportunity to stop running and relax a little .
17 She began again , very quietly , but nobody could hear her .
18 The school receded into the distance as the pupils skimmed above the treetops , and Mildred was grateful that no talking was allowed in flight , so nobody could ask her any awkward questions .
19 Nobody could find her .
20 Nobody would believe her when she told them she 'd seen Mrs Sugar .
21 " Nobody would believe her when she told them she 'd seen Mrs Sugar , " How do you think the conversation went ?
22 Nobody would take her seriously , Luke would laugh it off and take control of the situation , belittle her in front of his friends … and , besides , did she really want Mark 's death brought down to the level of party-stopper ?
23 Even if she tried , nobody would employ her — because she is Princess Margaret .
24 Poor Anna had been very indiscreet , the fascisti were going to arrest her or put pressure on her to leave the country for good , but he had been assured that if the principessa were to live again with him quietly in Rome nobody would touch her .
25 Mom would probably give her back teeth to make a picture with McQueen but nobody would cast her if they could get Faye Dunaway .
26 For a heart-constricting moment she wondered if somebody would catch her out .
27 They said , ‘ Well , nobody will notice her if she 's got her back to the audience , ’ but all the audience wanted to know was ‘ Why has that girl got her back to the audience , is she hideously scarred ? ’
28 Erm , I do n't like it er , not for particularly any religious reason but for the fact that the church is purpose-built for weddings and a lot of hotels are n't , so you get the girl with the ball gown , spent hundreds on it , and she 's squeezed up sometimes and nobody can see her !
29 Nothing could move her and when Glyn came back later for dinner , armed with further arguments , he realised she was completely adamant .
30 When in her twenties , nothing could stop her and she was proud to remember marriages faltering and once even , Astrid 's , biting the dust .
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