Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It could be that I 've simply never felt strongly enough about anyone , ’ she cut in , instantly wishing the words unsaid as she realised how much they revealed about her feelings for him . |
| 2 | She followed him up the room , repeating her sympathy and when that did not hold his attention , she began to apologize for her lateness in coming to speak to him about the tragedy . |
| 3 | It seemed that Cathy had a lot to lose through her uncle 's death . |
| 4 | She tried to go about her tasks with the same thoroughness as before , but too often her mind strayed from what she was doing , and promotion became less and less likely . |
| 5 | Oddly , she felt less happy , less content , less well able to go about her daily business than she had in the three painful months of her sexual abstinence . |
| 6 | They had heard about her erotic exploits but their jaws dropped during the dress rehearsal of one of her entrances . |
| 7 | When the locum who had visited Allison at home heard about her multiple miscarriages , she suggested Allison should ask to be referred to the Recurrent Miscarriage Clinic at Pembury Hospital in Kent . |
| 8 | Had he heard about her romance with Ian White , the junior registrar ? |
| 9 | And she knew herself to look better , clad in what passed for finery these days , than she did in the house where with so much work to do she had not a moment to spare for her appearance . |
| 10 | She had been so busy with her dress house in Rome , coping with her designer , planning for the future and ensuring that everyone in the business was kept happy — each of which seemed a full-time job in itself — that she had hardly had time to spare for her three children , let alone her mother . |
| 11 | Equally , Penny remains on one level as a deluded fantasist who believes , very like an Iranian woman , that a wife 's duty is to wait for her husband 's return from the wars . |
| 12 | Pepita set down among the crates to wait for her friend and the rum to reach her . |
| 13 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
| 14 | And Elinor was just going to have to wait for her merciful release . |
| 15 | She got herself seated at a table for four , ordered a glass of pastis , the local drink , and settled back to wait for her friends . |
| 16 | It sounded like a question , but he had never intended to wait for her answer . |
| 17 | His kiss was leisurely as if they had all the time in the world to explore each other , and he could afford to wait for her response , confident in his own powers of arousing it . |
| 18 | Even when she was tiny she had n't really thought of him that way , and when she was older , about thirteen , she had secretly been terribly proud in front of the other girls when Georg , who had never seemed to go through a spotty adolescent phase like other boys , used to wait for her outside school so that they could walk up the mountain road together . |
| 19 | Then , without bothering to wait for her answer , he had swung round again and was heading imperiously for the group of gold-brocade-covered armchairs that stood in the curve of the huge bay window , overlooking the sun-burnished waters of Loch Lomond . |
| 20 | to wait for her midwifery to come through and then er they 've closed that |
| 21 | When the war broke out , Anna was commissioned into the Army , where she did her service for her newly adopted country . |
| 22 | ‘ I was crazy to see a girl naked , and especially to see between her legs . |
| 23 | That Saturday evening she joined the passeggiata , with her hair pulled flat against her skull to smooth its crinkles and bring out its sheen , and the gold medallion of the Madonna she had received for her first communion hanging bright against the new pale shawl she had crocheted herself . |
| 24 | She has received for her 1990–91 sabbatical year a Research Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to support her work on a new book on Gottfried Benn 's lyrical poetry . |
| 25 | He had fantasized about her death almost as much as he had fantasized about Elinor 's . |
| 26 | But there were moments when he got through her barriers , and , although they were rare , this was one of them . |
| 27 | Despite her weightiness , Mrs Beavis got about her house like a two-year-old . |
| 28 | She shook her head to rearrange her disarrayed hair ; the golden tresses tumbling about her face and shoulders in glorious abandon made her look doubly desirable . |
| 29 | She did what she could with her tousled mass of auburn curls , but when she twisted it into its usual topknot the starkness of the style served only to emphasise the weariness in her wide-set eyes , and with a little mutter of disgust she let the curls fall again , tumbling about her shoulders in riotous abandon . |
| 30 | The other woman shook her head bemusedly , sending her tousled red curls tumbling about her face . |