Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] her in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then she looked into his eyes , which dwelt upon her in huge solemnity , and knew that he was burningly sincere . |
| 2 | Chris described to her in painstaking detail the story of the cartoon they 'd been watching . |
| 3 | Bertha had looked at her in thoughtful silence for several long moments before she 'd said , ‘ Dear Lucy — I believe you could help me in this affair . ’ |
| 4 | She also had the costs of the case awarded against her — wiping out virtually all of the £334,000-worth of damages won by her in previous court actions against the press . |
| 5 | Luke himself did n't matter to her in any way . |
| 6 | She did n't because the moment was not right ; she did not yet know that she could not plead from her position of privilege that she had suffered too — ‘ So you want to annex our wrongs as well , do you ? ’ he might well have answered to her in just bitterness . |
| 7 | Her voice trailed off when she saw Ricky looking at her in utter amazement . |
| 8 | Realizing that not only Mrs Whittaker , but twelve newly arrived first-year students , were waiting for her in expectant silence , she pulled herself together . |
| 9 | The row is over her attempt to evict Xoliswa Falati , who was accused with her in last year 's sensational kidnap and assault trial , from one of the Mandela homes in Soweto . |
| 10 | Alice would have liked to talk to her , for she felt drawn to her in some kind of kinship ; but Caroline did not feel this , it seemed . |
| 11 | Of all the nurses she had known only Minnie Robinson had remained loved and revered and even now , when she was old and pensioned off , Miss Arabel visited her faithfully and turned to her in complete trust for advice and comfort . |
| 12 | Although his head and body are bent towards her in paternal concern , their tension indicates that he wants to be elsewhere ; away from hysterical females , generally , and , in particular , at his lunchdate with the Chinese antique dealer who has hinted over the telephone that he has some particularly fine pieces of Ban Chieng that the National Museum will never see hidden away in his back room . |
| 13 | He had never asked her to marry him , he had never even said directly and seriously ‘ I love you ’ , he was not bound to her in any way explicitly . |
| 14 | It was more years than she cared to remember since she had last seen a man stare at her in frank admiration . |
| 15 | Dana looked shocked ; Claudia had never spoken to her in that tone before . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're the obvious person to do it , ’ Cara , ignoring that her sister was staring at her in total disbelief , went on . |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't worry , misses , ’ the driver said staring at her in open curiosity , ‘ I 'll take you to a very respectable lodging house run by a real lady . |
| 18 | Now , with the news that Rosa is running London this weekend , there is just that slight question mark hanging over her in Olympic year to make things interesting . |
| 19 | She embraced her sobbing daughter and clung to her in desperate shame . |
| 20 | Robbie felt her cheeks flush scarlet and she looked about her in angry embarrassment . |
| 21 | Miss Groundwater — he found that he thought of her in this way again , as a fillip to rage — was seated at her mirror , already in her nightgown , brushing out her hair . |
| 22 | In the event that the children were to return , the issue before the Family Court in Australia would arise upon the mother 's application for leave to remove them permanently from the State of Victoria to bring them back to live with her in this country . |
| 23 | Katherine looked round her in some confusion . |
| 24 | Her resolution wavering , she stared round her in helpless panic . |
| 25 | The man stared at her in stunned silence , his chest rising and falling with some kind of agitation . |
| 26 | Charlotte stared at her in utter amazement , for she had never seen — nor dreamt of seeing — her sister-in-law in such a condition . |
| 27 | Both men stared at her in shocked silence . |
| 28 | He stared at her in some perplexity . |
| 29 | He hardly flinched , just stared at her in horrified amazement . |
| 30 | He looked at her in apparent perplexity . |