Example sentences of "she [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why I stooped to traffic with the Man-greedy Frost Giantess , and why I intrigued with her to drive out the Gruagach and why I helped the Gruagach to vanquish the High King and take Tara . ’ |
| 2 | While studying spinning in Huddersfield ( as part of her degree course in textile design at Middlesex Polytechnic ) there had been no time for her to try out the machine , so the then sceptical technician told her to come back later . |
| 3 | They only wanted her to clean out the drain with a stick . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Why do n't you ask her to sort out the food ? |
| 5 | I was n't really listening , just waiting for her to pick up the phone . ’ |
| 6 | He reached past her to pick up the papers , a faint smile curling his chiselled lips as he scanned the typewritten sheets . |
| 7 | Afterwards he took her to pick up the ring . |
| 8 | Since Rita has been sent to Coventry , she has not been told that it is physically possible for her to open up the incubator herself and put her hands in . |
| 9 | Although the Empress submitted momentarily , divisions within the nobility enabled her to tear up the councillors ' terms . |
| 10 | Hands at her mouth , she bolted to the bathroom , slamming the door behind her to shut out the sounds of her vomiting as her stomach relieved itself of its contents with such violence that she was left retching drily long afterwards until the spasms died away . |
| 11 | Wycliffe opened the door , waited for her to switch out the lights and pass through , then he locked the door and pocketed the keys . |
| 12 | Ill health and bereavement are the most common needs for which the charity gives assistance — for example , it has recently helped a member whose career was terminated by multiple sclerosis to buy an electric wheelchair , and given a loan to a member 's widow reliant on state benefits to enable her to pay off the disputed partnership settlement debts accrued when her husband died . |
| 13 | For some reason , he did n't want her to check out the vault . |
| 14 | And no , no , I would n't want her to end up the same way as I did . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It was childish of her to rip up the picture , ’ says Nuala O'Connor . |
| 16 | When the headmistress , with some guilt , asked her to take over the school 's unpopular Commonwealth Society she rolled up her sleeves and cleaned out the dusty room that had been hung with torn posters depicting ‘ Tea-picking in Ceylon , ‘ Coffee Growing in Kenya , ’ and ‘ Sheep Farming in Australia . ’ |
| 17 | Although the older sister lived away , she travelled to stay with her sister occasionally and during one visit , after she made her allegations in a family meeting which she had joined , the counsellor asked her to take over the caring role for the final week of her stay so that her sister could actually see how it should be done . |
| 18 | ‘ I might tell you I persuaded her to cut down the list Buckmaster had drawn up of people to be informed . |
| 19 | I waited for her to bring up the subject of Graham 's murder because I knew she would have been very upset . |
| 20 | The apartment 's previous owners had hired an expensive interior designer from New York and ordered her to trick out the rooms in a horse-country olde-English Spy-Cartoons look , which had been done to extravagant perfection , but McIllvanney was none of those things . |