Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under fierce lights that did nothing for her head , a doctor and a technician examined them one at a time . |
| 2 | Caroline found herself seated at the lunch-table next to Romano de Sciorto , a state of affairs which did nothing for her shaky morale . |
| 3 | For — while Sir Felix had nothing much wrong with him except a wild look in his eye sometimes and a tendency to go off in fits of what Gemma had called " unstable " laughter — she had heard certain tales of moral laxity about his brothers and uncles and even one or two of his sisters , which had done nothing for her peace of mind . |
| 4 | She longed for some proper clothes too — having to wear one of his large baggy T-shirts was doing nothing for her self-image . |
| 5 | It did nothing for her temper . |
| 6 | He could only remember their mother telling them through her tears to be strong , and to have faith . |
| 7 | On the other hand , requiring the child to reproduce phrases and sentences may lead to a lower level of performance as the child seeks to make sense of the adult constructions and in doing so reinterprets them through her own emerging system of grammatical rules . |
| 8 | When he opened the door of his sitting-room , Mike Pumfrey saw Mrs Crumwallis , seated bony and straight-backed on a sofa , peering concentratedly at them through her pebble glasses . |
| 9 | She 'd screamed at them through her letter-box , and shoved an old iron poker into the gap , waving it about in an obscene fashion which had made Stuart laugh ; when neighbouring tenants began to bang on the walls they left the parcel outside the door , not sure who would find it first . |
| 10 | The nurses say she 's even helped get THEM through her ordeal . |
| 11 | Nurse found them and cracked them between her fingernails the way Smallfry sometimes did when he was made to kneel with his head in her lap , breathing her perfume and savouring the rare closeness of her . |
| 12 | Weightless with introspection she observed her hands as she had in the Big Bamboo , with their veins like injured worms — big , workaday hands — and hid them between her army-surplus thighs . |
| 13 | As I was pulling on the worn satin slippers I thought of the new ones my sister had bought me for her wedding . |
| 14 | I had seen him turn human with Margaret , but that glimpse had not been enough to tell me now whether he had stopped on recognizing me for her sake or because I was a Benedict 's nurse . |
| 15 | I rely on everybody else , but she has to rely on me for her food and comfort . |
| 16 | ‘ So you do blame me for her blindness , ’ he said menacingly . |
| 17 | ‘ And to blame me for her bitterness is the height of absurdity ! |
| 18 | The Widow Douglas , she took me for her son , and allowed she would sivilize me ; but it was rough living in the house all the time , considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways ; and so when I could n't stand it no longer , I lit out . |
| 19 | She urged me to go with her to concerts and the theatre , and took me as her guest to the Edinburgh International Club which , owing to the presence of so many servicemen from overseas , was then an active and flourishing society . |
| 20 | And then he said suddenly , ‘ That phone call Ah was waitin' fur — it was from the hotel Iris had given me as her address in Lima . |
| 21 | She planned to say nothing about her ram-raid revenge — but contacted police to confess when they appealed for witnesses . |
| 22 | Both have replied saying while they are sympathetic , they can do nothing about her situation . |
| 23 | We know nothing about her family . ’ |
| 24 | He said nothing at all about his angry chase after her and nothing about her fear . |
| 25 | Juliet had told her a little about her own adoption , and her search for Elaine , but nothing about her talk to Celia and her great-aunt . |
| 26 | This means that Clegg has an even more unreal , fantasized image of Miranda , as he knows virtually nothing about her real personality . |
| 27 | I here were other police present , and after the announcement she spoke to one of them about her sister Laura . |
| 28 | Liz was prepared to allow the therapist to talk to her parents , but she did not want her to tell them about her problems concerning the shop , preferring to discuss these with them herself . |
| 29 | They reassured Pamela that they did trust her , but added that they hoped she would feel more able to be open with them about her social life . |
| 30 | Unwanted and unloved by her parents , Cassie felt unable to tell them about her hated uncle 's secret visits |