Example sentences of "[to-vb] she [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whoever she was living with , roused by the smell of burning , had come downstairs to discover her slumped across the hearth with her head pressed up against a glowing electric fire . |
| 2 | I lit a cigarette as I waited and turned to find her leaning on the doorway , arms folded . |
| 3 | He forgave her , and then a week later he and Keeley came home from the Beaux Arts Club to find her sitting on the basement steps , smiling nice as pie . |
| 4 | From Dennis 's drunken hints that memorable evening in Ramillies Drive I had gathered that the reason for this was Karen 's sterility , so I was somewhat surprised to find her going on the offensive . |
| 5 | As her door began to open she grabbed for the telephone , then dropped the receiver as Luke appeared . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps an escort , ’ hinted Isabel , worried that Matilda was going to suggest she wait for the good father 's return . |
| 7 | I know not to expect her to react in the way other dogs do , and she knows that I will look after her and she does n't have to be quite so independent . |
| 8 | Sarah likes to build up a relationship with a woman before she has her baby , using acupuncture to relax her , to treat any pregnancy ailments and to help her recover after the birth . |
| 9 | She 'd only got five minutes in which to change out of this crumpled dress and fix her make-up before interviewing yet another applicant for the job of a daily nanny to help her look after the twins . |
| 10 | You may also need to help her to transfer to the list of your own general practitioner , if she and he are both agreeable to this ; and of course she must be assured that you , or some other member of the family will be with her on the actual day of the move or , if she wishes , take the responsibility of it off her shoulders completely . |
| 11 | Huy tried to imagine her going through the simple ceremony with someone else , and could not . |
| 12 | I found I had to get Dawn 's weight down much more than I 'd expected , or would have wished , just to persuade her to come for the food on my fist . |
| 13 | He would have to let her recover from the shock before contacting her . |
| 14 | Still , even when Grigorovich refused three years ago to let her guest at the Royal Ballet , she did what she was told . |
| 15 | She sat and watched it all slip past , and thought how she must persuade Murphy to let her cook up the hens ’ mash on the saddle-room boiler , for Dora would hate her to do it in the kitchen , and how she would need a galvanized bucket and an old ladle and a door on the old donkey shed in the orchard to keep out the foxes . |
| 16 | She tried to get him to let her check in the bar first . |
| 17 | And TODAY really did show her the way home by persuading Captain Nick Fletcher to let her sit in the cockpit with him . |
| 18 | British Rail used to let her travel in the guard 's van , but has now changed its rules . |
| 19 | I had to plead with you to let her come to the party , ’ Mother said . |
| 20 | Ruth could never understand Charlotte 's unwillingness to let her help with the baby . |
| 21 | But he refused to let her get near the subject . |
| 22 | ‘ Mr. Preston , if I may say so that was pretty cold blooded of you to leave her lying on the floor until I came in . ’ |
| 23 | He seemed quite determined to keep her imprisoned against the wall again , and she longed to understand what thoughts were surging through his mind . |
| 24 | Maurice probably did n't want to risk her objecting to the surrender of Tristram 's letters . |
| 25 | Probably he knew only that Jehana objected to the idea of marrying Artai , and had been told that her family wished to avoid giving offence by rejecting the suit , and so were willing to see her contracted without the preliminary of a courtship . |
| 26 | He wished it were Perdita at the end of the rope , he 'd like to see her crashing to the ground over and over again . |
| 27 | I did n't know her at all , other than to see her go into the house and out of the house . |
| 28 | He felt the glass being tweaked from his fingers and opened his eyes to see her disappearing into the kitchen . |
| 29 | Unable to sleep he had drawn back the front flaps of his hut to watch the spectacular storm and had been startled to see her dashing across the flooded clearing in the glare of the lightning flashes . |
| 30 | PWL 's managing director David Howells entered the debate on Kylie 's future by insisting she had the qualities to see her endure in the same way pop 's Peter Pan Cliff Richard had . |