Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] she [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liza Alther 's bestselling novel Kinflicks was rejected at least fifty times before it found a home , but when it did it earned her enough money to enable her to devote herself full-time to writing . |
| 2 | Competence in teaching means having sufficient insight into the teacher 's own weaknesses , strengths and preferences to enable her to adapt her methods so that she is comfortable in using them . |
| 3 | He knows so little about being loved , he can not really provide Miranda with any more than material gifts and force to persuade her to love him . |
| 4 | David had told her they would pick her up in the minibus to save her driving her car all the way to the woods . |
| 5 | She adored the game so much , Luke only had to shift his weight or touch her mouth to get her to do what he wanted , and she was so competitive she would bump anyone , at first even riding off ponies on her own side . |
| 6 | The sound of the start of the midnight bell was clear now through the starlit air , and she was angry with herself for allowing Miguel Rafaelo to prevent her seeing her hero . |
| 7 | A final rope was circled loosely around her neck to prevent her raising her head . |
| 8 | A Salvation Army officer friend had arranged for Ann to spend a few days away from home to help her resolve her feelings about the crisis before starting to tackle the difficulties in her marriage . |
| 9 | She is now seeking a sponsor to help her reach her dream of a place in the 1996 Olympics . |
| 10 | There was a harshness on his face as he moved towards her , a determination to make her tell him the answers he sought , and she looked away . |
| 11 | Everything he had done that had seemed at all kind had been part of a plan to make her face her past for his mother 's sake . |
| 12 | One of Scotland 's most promising young Nordic skiers has won an award from the Highlands and Islands Development Board to help her pursue her career . |
| 13 | Reading Mary Bailey 's article this month , which is both a celebration of seven years of service to the hobby , and a cry from the heart to help her to help you , I thought it was time I promoted , explained and outlined our superb readers ' query service . |
| 14 | She was screwing up the courage to suggest she cook him a meal over the weekend when he glanced at his watch . |
| 15 | She nodded her head slowly , as if she went along with his refusal to let her read it . |
| 16 | They showed , from time to time , a faint suspicious desire to force her to provide her non-existent credentials , but every time , just as their forces gathered for the attack , she would produce out of her hat some new and dazzling boyfriend , all ready to pay tribute to her elusive powers . |
| 17 | Christ , how he wished he 'd had the courage to ask her to marry him before all this . |
| 18 | She 'd promised to phone Julie that night to let her know she 'd arrived safely and to check on her sister . |
| 19 | It nearly killed them to acknowledge my existence and they only spoke in monosyllables when I was present , but the babble of sound which broke out every time I went out and closed the door behind me was enough to make me want to go rushing straight to Miss Malley to beg her to send me back to my friends . |
| 20 | Once , upon her getting out of the car , they manoeuvred the vehicle so as to trap the field-worker to prevent her accompanying them . |
| 21 | In view of the evident divisions within the Cabinet , he advised her to speak to ministers individually that afternoon to ensure she had their full support . |
| 22 | Recognizing that in this instance her son would use any means to persuade her to change her mind , Elizabeth Woodville none the less gave thought to the suggestion . |
| 23 | Chrissie can not deny that she took the items , but she might well argue that she thought Fred had the authority to let her have them , and unless we can show that she had been told otherwise our prosecution might well fail , especially since the law traditionally recognizes that ‘ perks ’ are a feature of the catering industry . |
| 24 | He had rendered her almost mindless there and it had all been a cheap trick , not even part of his wish to get her to accept her father . |
| 25 | Not only had she booked a seat on an ordinary shuttle flight from Edinburgh to London , but a fellow passenger even had the audacity to ask her to sign his copy of Andrew Morton 's book Diana : Her True Story . |
| 26 | However , with a gene transplant , doctors at Great Ormond Street — who have been working with scientists from the University of Leiden in Holland — hope to reprogramme Carly 's genes to enable her to protect herself against infection . |
| 27 | She flung herself at friendship and blurted her thoughts and feelings , jokes and secrets till she had no flora in the lining of her inner spaces to help her absorb her experiences slowly , nutritiously . |
| 28 | Twenty eight year old Susan Magill has been trying a homoeopathic approach to help her improve her diet and lose weight . |
| 29 | A mother is appealing to the Government to help her get her sons back from her estranged husband in Libya . |
| 30 | Whenever a female enters his territory he courts her by swimming in a zig-zag dance , eventually leading her to the next where she enters and he prods her tail to entice her to lay her eggs . |