Example sentences of "[noun sg] her [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It seemed , at that moment , to distress her above all others .
2 He could n't distress her with his own , raw , terrible dilemma .
3 She got home pretty quickly but it was a more frightening story yesterday afternoon when her driver dumperd her in the middle of Swindon after a mystery tour .
4 It took the jury almost five hours to reach a majority verdict and acquit her on all three charges .
5 The knowledge she had of him would armour her against belief .
6 She wished he were not being so kind , so tender — even if it was because he hoped to cajole her into selling him her house .
7 Caltha palustris , the marsh marigold her in its single and double-flowered forms , brings sunny colour to the bog garden .
8 She was not particularly eager to share the information with Leif — though doubtless he would bombard her with searching questions , as he had done before — but she had made Vitor think that the two of them were close .
9 ‘ Aye , ’ I nodded slowly , hoping to content her with this , then looked away and up to one side as though I had just found something very interesting and important to look at on the ceiling .
10 how we remet her in our childbirth visions
11 I do n't think he 'll badmouth her in future , but he will have learned his lesson too late . ’
12 He turned to look at her , his glance intended to skewer her to the spot , forcing her to clutch self-consciously at the kimono she had slipped on while she had a nap after the arduous car journey into the mountains with Peter just now .
13 The obvious thing to do with such an important heiress was to betroth her to one of his sons and the fact that he chose his third son , Geoffrey , shows that Richard was still marked out as the future Duke of Aquitaine .
14 What he had just done was sentence her to another day of hell .
15 It was n't fair , not a bit , the way he could side-step and outmanoeuvre her with such ease .
16 Because a win here would catapult her into the LPGA 's Hall of Fame , most people were shouting for Sheehan .
17 And why on earth had she allowed Leo to needle her into confiding in him ?
18 Charles asked patiently , determined to humour her through this crazy new idea .
19 We want to affiliate her in horse classes — I know she wo n't be able to manage lengthened strides very easily because of her conformation , but we hope we 'll get up to Medium level . ’
20 She would n't do it — would n't allow him to railroad her into something she had absolutely no desire for .
21 I suppose he 's got a bit of power her at the end because he makes her give the jewels back .
22 It would be nicer to behead her with a carving knife .
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