Example sentences of "[vb infin] she [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let him picture her pottering in the improvised chaos of a damp , windowless room … |
| 2 | If they were watching for her , they would n't expect her to travel on the night boat from Liverpool , with a rough sea battering at the B & I ship , while the drunks and the seasick threw up in the smelly lounges . |
| 3 | Does that make sense , that 's for the receptionist we do n't expect her to fiddle with the rates for liability , capital or whatever do we ? |
| 4 | And he would watch her go with the certainty that she was meeting a lover . |
| 5 | Well she 's got , she said she just wears the three , I do n't think she likes like the trousers . |
| 6 | What on earth do you think she meant by the incident she did n't like at the weekend ? " |
| 7 | I could see her looking at the vessel by the jetty . |
| 8 | you 'd just gone , it 's a wonder you did n't see her coming round the bloody corner . |
| 9 | She could not recognize , did not dare to recognize the grandiose ambitions whence her rage sprang ; it did not amuse her to sit in the Deux Magots , remembering that Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir had once sat there , nor did she wish to glimpse the exteriors of the houses of the famous dead . |
| 10 | to collect the card but did Ms Sutton gracefully rise from her seat to hand it to her , no , she tossed it over the rim of the platform onto the floor below leaving the poor woman to scrabble around for several minutes looking for it and the , and the punch line is a little later an embarrassed Ms Sutton is contesting Cambridgeshire South West for the Lib Dems at the general election , apologised for her cavalier behaviour , let us hope she learnt from the experience yeah |
| 11 | Do you hear her get off the bed then ? |
| 12 | For example , if a person is being asked about her educational background one interviewer could encourage her to talk about the criticisms she could offer of it , while another interviewer could concentrate on the benefits she received from it . |
| 13 | He wo n't want her to go to the knacker 's either , I bet . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ And you did n't want her to know about the letters because it would rake it all up again ? ’ |
| 15 | Mr. Hallworth 's evidence was that he did not want her to enter into the transaction , but she said she wanted to go ahead with it . |
| 16 | Benny did n't really want her to come to the party , but for once Mother had been insistent . |
| 17 | Aunt Bedelia had the bedroom underneath and I did n't want her knocking on the ceiling with a broom handle so I decided for once to put up with his snoring and deep breathing exercises . |
| 18 | But no : she has hung around the DHSS while clerks forgot her like she was goods in the stockroom , and now she has a chit that says they 'll pay her lodging at the boarding house . |
| 19 | Bemoaning her stupidity at letting him escape she trudged towards the sound of traffic . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll get her started on the other thing . ’ |
| 21 | But then , she had little choice ; he would n't allow her to sleep in the car or to remain here without him . |
| 22 | The only way Masefield can make this credible is to present her as a kind of child-bride , a happy innocent ; necessary as this may be to both the theme and the plot of the book , it does not allow her to develop beyond the limits of a type-character . |
| 23 | It would save her waiting for the rain to stop , and the way the rain was pelting down it looked as if it never would stop . |
| 24 | Surely they could n't just let her go at the end of the three years ? |
| 25 | If only Ace would let her go to the pits to check for herself ! |
| 26 | Why could n't Joe let her sit in the fireside armchair in the living-room so that she 'd at least have company ? |
| 27 | I 'd let her settle into the new surroundings — that way I 'd seem more supernumerary . |
| 28 | Those Q.T. 's who have already received tickets to sell will greatly assist Cicely in the organisation of the event if they would let her know by the first week in February how many tickets they have sold as she will be away from 8th Feb. to 8th March . |
| 29 | Sometimes I feel that I could get to the point where I 'd let her get on the bus [ transport to day care ] in the morning and then ring them up later and say ‘ Do n't bring her back because I wo n't let her in ’ … |
| 30 | And he would somehow persuade her to part with the Fabergé desk set . |