Example sentences of "her [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She somehow manages to put invitations so cleverly that I can hardly refuse them — will I advise her about a job move , will I try out a new restaurant with her before she entertains a client there ? |
| 2 | In the spring of this year , a pharmacist told her about a new drug called Imigran . |
| 3 | And I griped to her about a certain person at work , I lamented the fact that we were a second-rate company when we could be a first-rate company , the usual junk . |
| 4 | He was telling her about a holiday in Greece instead . |
| 5 | Nelson , having appointed her Anpetuwi 's own version of ‘ Dear Abby ’ , took the trouble to seek her out to consult her about a problem he was having with the chambermaid , Billie . |
| 6 | I knew I would n't play her as a wimp and the whole audition was based on the speech where she goes mad — the flowers , rosemary for remembrance and the whole bit . |
| 7 | Henry Tyler would not have described her as a happy woman , but afterward he could not say that she had seemed at all unwell . |
| 8 | Pound had known Phyllis Bottome between 1905 and 1907 , when they were fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania , and it 's not clear whether it is that early association , or a period later when she had caught up with him in London , that Phyllis Bottome had in mind when she wrote of how Pound tried to transform her as a writer from a talented amateur into a professional : |
| 9 | However , a safer and a wiser idea is to take up what I began with : Phyllis Bottome telling how Pound , when they were both young , tried to turn her as a writer from an amateur into a professional . |
| 10 | Her instructor , Sally Sheffield , described her as a competent first-aider who did not panic . |
| 11 | Hughes took the British junior team to Austria earlier this year , and the BJA has agreed to employ her as a part-time coach when she retires after the Commonwealth Games . |
| 12 | It was important to him , important enough to see that members of his family met her and that he found out what they thought of her as a possible wife for him . |
| 13 | Many right-wing back-bench critics of the government ( but supporters of Mrs Thatcher ) could voice their criticism without including her and liked to present her as a political prisoner of Cabinet ‘ Wets ’ . |
| 14 | The image of her as a ‘ superwoman ’ is also fuelled by eulogies in the sympathetic tabloid press , as well as the ‘ devil theory ’ of Labour politicians . |
| 15 | Her friends did not think of her as a drunk and Rachel would be truly shocked if she knew about the long nights of insomnia and secret alcohol . |
| 16 | Moving from her external trappings to her internal structure , he represents her as a sort of wooden skeleton . |
| 17 | Erika was not too sure about the girl in Pankow , half suspecting that Fräulein Silber was using her as a means of putting pressure on herself . |
| 18 | Volumnia can easily be played as a sexless harridan : Ms Jefford interprets her as a passionate woman who dominates her son physically as well as spiritually , even to the extent of giving his face a resounding slap when he is recalcitrant . |
| 19 | On hearing of her death , Prime Minister Cavaco Silva described her as a person ‘ of exceptional quality who contributed with vigour and impartiality to the appreciation of culture in Portugal and the presentation of Portuguese culture abroad . ’ |
| 20 | MRS Leona Helmsley , the hotel queen dethroned earlier this year by a New York court that convicted her as a tax cheat , was yesterday sentenced to four years ' imprisonment and fined $7 million ( £4.5 million ) . |
| 21 | When she was first looking for rooms to rent , she had to pretend to be Yoruba rather than Ibo in order to persuade a Nigerian landlord to accept her as a tenant . |
| 22 | Her fiancé has now reported her as a missing person , I believe . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Giles Hawick is taking it seriously enough to have reported her as a missing person , ’ he said tightly . |
| 24 | For it was not pure ocular seeing , or I should have seen her as a girl of the age which I have now reached . |
| 25 | Maybe he would show Eleanor to her as a sample of the younger woman who was not a gold-digger . |
| 26 | Or to go to the police and report her as a Fifth Columnist . ’ |
| 27 | Pebbles , whose owner had been required to stump up $240,000 to supplement her as a late entry , started 11–5 favourite , with Greinton ( whose gallant run against Teleprompter in the Arlington Million two months earlier is described on pages 96–7 ) at 135 . |
| 28 | Still riding the crest of that foaming wave , she took up a microphone one day and sang an old classic , which caught the ear of a sharp record producer who would very soon launch her as a pop star . |
| 29 | The horror of the near nervous breakdown she suffered soon after launching her recording career , as she struggled to combine acting with singing , was taken by her as a warning to calm down . |
| 30 | Professors Gordon Donaldson and I. B. Cowan have both tried to assess her as a character of history rather than drama , going further than Lady Antonia in considering her political role . |