Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] her [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blow caught her on the right side of her face , high on the cheek bone , beneath the eye . |
| 2 | Her General Practitioner referred her to the surgical Outpatients Clinic where the surgeon examined her and placed her on the waiting list for stripping ( removal ) of varicose veins . |
| 3 | Brownie Owl was very sympathetic when Penny told her about the lost budgie . |
| 4 | Linda recognised her from the previous day at school . |
| 5 | Gregory sees her as the prime mover in this , while allowing for the importance of divine intervention in Clovis 's victory against the Alamans . |
| 6 | David followed her up the short path between the borders of spring flowers . |
| 7 | Captain Meredith observed her from the open door , as did Miss Jarman . |
| 8 | Two quick steps took her to the vacated table where she seized the bottle of aquavit , neatly topping up both glasses . |
| 9 | Well she 'd gone out through the door and the wind took her down the bloody street ! |
| 10 | He made no attempt to present her to the other man , however , apparently so deep in thought that he seemed to have forgotten her very existence . |
| 11 | Fear gripped her at the demoniacal glint in his dark eyes . |
| 12 | Despairing of ever finding any use for her , her parents sold her to the military , a callous practice common in the commercially minded years of the mid-twenty-fourth century . |
| 13 | So Brenda told her about the adventurous ride by the short cut . |
| 14 | His next letter offered her marriage to save her from the dreadful future of stripping off that she would be subjected to otherwise . |
| 15 | At the chilly boarding-school to which her parents sent her in the mistaken belief that she would be less lonely among girls of her own age , the prizes for mathematics — a subject which she did n't particularly care for but which came easily to her — were framed reproductions of the works of Italian painters . |
| 16 | Moloch reminded her of the Vartaq Veil . |
| 17 | Screens of holly and ivy sheltered her from the deepening winter , but now the forest became a black and frozen place . |
| 18 | She recovered the parish file given her by the diocesan office and spread the meagre contents out on Bishop Julian 's desk . |
| 19 | She refused the cold remains of the fish and chips , so he took the whole package out to the dustbin at the front of the house ( no need to worry her about the Sweet murder if she did n't know — and it appeared she did n't ) . |
| 20 | Desire shook her to the very foundations of her being . |
| 21 | Imagine : I was a bit pissed for a start , the object of my complete love was nesting in my rear-view mirror , the corpulent groom — my best friend — who had spent three weeks pleasuring her in the Hellenic sunshine was sitting beside me with a clank of duty-free between his calves , I 'd lost my job , and the other drivers on the road were all tuning up for Formula One . |
| 22 | When he 'd moored the boat and helped her out Michele followed her through the rear lobby and into the foyer . |
| 23 | With a heavy heart , Robert followed her towards the smooth , mysterious features of the house , whose windows , on this side , he could now see , were blacked out from the inside . |
| 24 | Endill followed her to the sick bay . |
| 25 | Julia followed her to the private bed-sitting room , where her child was happily playing in his cot . |
| 26 | We talked a little till her cries took her into the little theatre . |
| 27 | He wondered how he had found sufficient courage to ask her to the Edwardian Ball , and then remembered that it was her air of calm dignity which had made him anxious to take her to impress his parents . |
| 28 | Patrick followed her into the front room , his eyes taking in her home . |
| 29 | On the same day Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka said that she would firmly use the increased powers given her by the small constitution , including giving orders to ministers , which had not been possible before . |
| 30 | She 'd firmly resisted her mother 's oft-repeated efforts to tempt her with the power-packed vegetable which she 'd seen the singing sailor-man so often greedily guzzle straight from the can . |