Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , when he had suggested that they ought to celebrate her ‘ housewarming ’ with champagne , she had thought he was joking . |
| 2 | And in a sense that was how they must view her , a difficult prickly maid up from the country . |
| 3 | They must support her all they could . |
| 4 | Margaret , can you give me a phone number for her because I thought if they do that they must put her on plays with us students |
| 5 | She had n't recognized any of the people or even seen their faces but the thought that they must know her was enough . ’ |
| 6 | Alice said they should leave her alone and sent Emmie into the garden to feed the rabbits and shut up the ducks . |
| 7 | Well but they should give her a soli , the name of a solicitor . |
| 8 | They should pick her up without any trouble . ’ |
| 9 | In the end , I expect they 'll make her read the news . |
| 10 | They 'll make her tell them where it is . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ They 'll bring her down to Florence in that case ? ’ |
| 13 | And I 'm staying round , and I wake up if I 'm staying round if Danielle wakes and they 'll bring her over , I 'll you see and picking her up Sunday night . |
| 14 | They 'll examine her … and dispose of her . |
| 15 | So , likely , they 'll farm her out to somebody and she 'll be put to work , probably as a runner in one of the mills . ’ |
| 16 | Well it , it 's been stupid this laid on this settee falling down back , it 's blinking ridiculous , yeah , we 've just got back from hospital and they 'll send her a letter for er , to make an appointment for her to go back , to see what the treatment they 're gon na give her , so , will it go in Pete 's car ? |
| 17 | Afraid they 'll clap her away , I imagine . ’ |
| 18 | They 're sweet , they 'll fit her wo n't they ? |
| 19 | But it is n't something they 'll expect her to confide even if they know about it . |
| 20 | She 'll give a pound coin to one of the tinkers ’ children when there 're dozens of them running round , and she 'll let them see she 's got lots more pound coins , and then she has to give them all one or they 'll bang her on the head and take them . ’ |
| 21 | She 's like a daughter , the daughter I never had , and I lie awake at nights thinking what 's going to happen to her when I 'm gone , because men being what they are , they 'll take her on because of the money . |
| 22 | So now they 're saying if she does n't , if she goes off again without her mother 's consent then they 'll take her into care . |
| 23 | They 'll clean her up , get lots of fluids into her because the main danger is dehydration , and then she may need skin grafts to repair some of the areas . |
| 24 | ‘ If they get their hands on her , they 'll kill her . |
| 25 | And then they 'll kill her . |
| 26 | They 'll question her , you said so . ’ |
| 27 | And she want 's to change over cos she 's moved into that bit of the town , they 'll they 'll get her sorted out . |
| 28 | They offer to come on board the party boat to help me find Tamsin , but I say no : they might scare her . |
| 29 | If she had learned to be self-effacing , cultivated a mysterious absence or aloofness they might forget her altogether , or so she feared deep down , not openly , not admitting to herself this appalling possibility . |
| 30 | She hoped very much to meet someone this morning , Dorothea perhaps , or Alida Thorne , or Mrs Bottingley , wife of the Rector , for they might invite her home to coffee and she could confide in them . |