Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] her [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |
| 2 | She says a man tried to abduct her in similar circumstances around the time of the murder . |
| 3 | ‘ They are great pals , the prince enjoys her company and he has found her of great help in the recent troubles he has had at home . |
| 4 | Kirsty 's solvent abuse has left her with serious health problems . |
| 5 | ANNIE LENNOX 'S Spanish holiday has left her in bad spirits after discovering her villa was haunted . |
| 6 | It has stood her in good stead , for she has had to deal with very serious health problems and has never allowed these to depress or hinder her . |
| 7 | But after a while he augmented the phone calls with occasional visits , and as the summer wore on came to see her with increasing regularity , eventually as often as his professional commitments allowed . |
| 8 | A year in Milan , Italy 's great fashion centre , had sounded close to perfect — at least , that was how the woman who 'd interviewed her at International Models had made it sound . |
| 9 | Er but she 's a member and we went there for lunch and it was the ideal place , you know , cos there were n't any , many people around and so we had quite a nice lunch and erm whilst we were there we then had a drink in er in the bar and erm her the , the secretary of the club , a lady , came to talk to Barbara and she mentioned that she 'd seen her on Blind Date you see , and so I got to know more by listening to them two speaking er and er that 's where I learnt about er that . |
| 10 | I was fourteen then , I 'd seen her in National Velvet , and had been barmy about her ever since . |
| 11 | He 'd secured her with practised ease , and so fast that she had n't even been aware of it happening . |
| 12 | It seems that she had fallen in love with him but she " did n't know where I was at all " with him ; he would be most affectionate towards her and then , for no apparent reason , seemed to avoid her for protracted periods . |
| 13 | After he 'd left her at Wild Tor , they would never see each other again . |
| 14 | I mean , as I said to my hubby later on , we did n't scrimp and scrape to send her to Hutchy Girls so she would grow up to give us grandweans saying merr , flerr and sterr . |
| 15 | Two days later , Clare 's mind was unexpectedly diverted from her personal problems — no job , no man — when the CND office telephoned to ask her for voluntary evening help : they were organizing another protest after a nuclear accident . |
| 16 | The geography of Boiotia might to a shallow observer seem to suit her for naval hegemony . |
| 17 | I was going to tell her about proper beef stock , but the girl has to walk before she can run . |
| 18 | He ignored the partially melted ice , and began to shaft her with unbounded enthusiasm . |
| 19 | He began to take her to antique shops , sought out trade exhibitions of fabrics and contemporary furniture , bought her books on design — on Bauhaus , which brought him back to his own youth , on the Viennese Secession with its decorative flights and insistence on utility . |
| 20 | He straightened to kiss her with lazy possessiveness on her mouth , his tongue devouring her even as he was impatiently unbuckling the waist of his trousers , dispensing with the remainder of his clothes with rough masculine haste . |
| 21 | Mandy had warned her that storms came up fast on the lake , but nothing could have prepared her for blue skies being annihilated by black storm-clouds in just a matter of minutes . |
| 22 | Her whole adult life was a triumph of determination over a body that could have condemned her to permanent invalidism . |
| 23 | At that moment Lucy realized that no responsible employee in an ordinary office , let alone a hospital , would have admitted her without written instructions or a telephone call to confirm . |
| 24 | Every night I go to see her in different plays and she 's always wonderful . ’ |
| 25 | and I , I went to see her in open evening , I could n't understand her , cos she you know , she real , I mean she is French |
| 26 | I do not wish to see it actually end here in this room as you attempt to stun her with blue-eyed hatred ! ’ |
| 27 | And the tension seemed to have affected her in other ways , too . |
| 28 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 29 | Once a female is grabbed in amplexus the male is likely to have to defend her from other males , and fights lasting hours or days and involving several males have been witnessed in numerous species . |
| 30 | Well apparently she said stands her in good stead because |