Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] her [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her investments provided her with an annual income of well over a million dollars , in addition to the trusts and investments left to her directly by her husband . |
| 2 | Straightening up , Roman regarded her with an unreadable expression . |
| 3 | Arriving like a final dea ex machina , Doris 's condition makes her like an ironic version of that goddess in Tennyson 's ‘ oenone ’ , ‘ Idalian Aphrodite beautiful , / Fresh as the foam , new-bathed in paphian wells . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And there you are wrong , ’ Alain assured her in an amused voice . |
| 5 | Meredith trembled , overwhelmed by the sheer proximity of him , the heat and vitality of his body filling her with an unholy excitement . |
| 6 | Dieter guided her to an empty chair ; she was trembling violently and he called for brandy . |
| 7 | THE actress Helena Bonham Carter is asking a court to protect her from an obsessive fan who is making her life a misery . |
| 8 | ILONA lives in Munich with her husband because US Immigration regards her as an undesirable . |
| 9 | In the end she decided that she did not like being a sightseer : the role filled her with an obscure rage . |
| 10 | Because the story took her into an exotic , adult world , she enjoyed it . |
| 11 | Suddenly , cheekily she spun round in front of him , mocking his attempts to turn her into an Anglo-Irish lady . |
| 12 | Lucy spent just three days in intensive care before doctors moved her to an ordinary ward at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital . |
| 13 | Whether or not her swingometer led her to an appropriate purchasing decision , he has n't heard ; in fact , she was dowsing only the organic wines , so it was n't a completely random process . |
| 14 | The streets of the city welcomed her as an old friend as she made her way unerringly towards the brilliantly lit entrance of Tivoli . |
| 15 | That book portrayed her as an insecure child , who had overcome her unhappiness at the time of her mother 's elopement by zealously nursing her younger brother . |
| 16 | ‘ What will people think when those children ask her for an improper story ! ’ |
| 17 | Yon Yonson married her in an evident attempt to qualify for the Irish dole . |
| 18 | Trollope portrays her as an overbearing , bossy wife and woman right from the start even though he says ‘ it is not my intention to breathe a word against the character of Mrs. Proudie ’ . |
| 19 | Then , when they turned out on to the main road , Luke overtook her with an authoritative toot . |
| 20 | The scents from the sodden earth filled her with an intolerable weight of memory ; not that of individual occasions but of the entire past . |
| 21 | Simmons signalled her to an empty chair on the fringe of the disputatious group , and walked round the back of the table to take a chair opposite . |
| 22 | Fen fixed her with an inimical gaze . |
| 23 | The 16-year-old forgot her contact lenses at her hotel and only a desperate delivery in the nick of time saved her from an embarrassing night at the Virginia Slims Championships . |
| 24 | But when they finally met , Shug greeted her in an enigmatic tone , ‘ You sure is ugly ’ . |
| 25 | She had looked up ; she had looked around ; the frescos left her with an abiding sense of hopelessness , reinforced by the pastor 's impotent testimony . |
| 26 | Helping her make the choice is her close friend Esther Fritton ( left ) who works in the Pattern Department and invited Irene 's family to join her on an open day tour of the factory . |