Example sentences of "[verb] her [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found her lying with a cold compress on her forehead , the pupils of her eyes strangely dilated . |
| 2 | Isa Blagden , arriving one day to look over the Casa Guidi , called on Wilson and found her lying in a dark room , huddled under the covers of her bed , the Bible in her hand and tears streaming down her face . |
| 3 | The next day found her driving round the busy , bustling city of Sheffield , desperately trying to keep one eye on the traffic , and the other on the directions scrawled on a piece of paper . |
| 4 | It was an impressive narrative , and impressively narrated ; Clara found her craving for the bizarre and the involved richly satisfied . |
| 5 | He managed to keep working , paid for his board and lodging , helped her to look after the handicapped boy and did a few jobs around the house . |
| 6 | Alex recounted her meeting with the young painter and they laughed together . |
| 7 | Instead she 'd accepted his suggestion to show her more of the island of Zealand , and had been enchanted by everything , painfully aware that the spell which had entrapped her emanated from the powerful persona of the man beside her as much as the natural beauty of the surrounding countryside . |
| 8 | She raised her eyes to his face , but he could see no flash of emotion there , nothing of the slightly vulnerable girl who 'd tried to hide her hurt under an efficient exterior . |
| 9 | I let her play with a small , single-string kite while I used a stunter . |
| 10 | Let him picture her pottering in the improvised chaos of a damp , windowless room … |
| 11 | It had made her feel like a dutiful grown-up daughter , visiting a hypochondriac distant relative once a week . |
| 12 | She reminded me that I was a married man — forbade me to approach her or speak to her again in that way , but at the same time I knew I had made her think about the old days — the attraction we 'd had for each other which she could not deny . |
| 13 | Ludens told her to go to the British Museum and the National Gallery , which she did , though declining his offer to ‘ show her round ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ I told her to go into the other room- and say she thought he was going to be in there . |
| 15 | A three-and-a-halfoctave range allows her to move from a fire-and-brimstone holler to a murmur to a speech in tongues . |
| 16 | Considering the clean wake and the almost dinghy-like responsiveness of the yacht , we were convinced that a reach in a slightly stiffer breeze would have seen her sliding into an easy surf . |
| 17 | He had seen her sitting at the high table among the other ladies of noble birth who served the Empress . |
| 18 | FERGIE 'S invitation to join the Queen for Christmas will see her banished to a lonely farmhouse while the rest of the royal family whoop it up two miles away at Sandringham . |
| 19 | you 'd just gone , it 's a wonder you did n't see her coming round the bloody corner . |
| 20 | Now she had developed a self-assurance and experience which allowed her to perform on the public stage . |
| 21 | That 'll keep her going for a wee while . |
| 22 | Huy tried to imagine her going through the simple ceremony with someone else , and could not . |
| 23 | She is always turning from what has been offered her to say with a demure little sigh and smile , ‘ Oh , please , please … all I want is a cup of tea , weak but not too weak , and the teeniest weeniest bit of really crisp toast . ’ |
| 24 | Walking across to her , she turned her to look in the full-length mirror . |
| 25 | She 'd already seen Il-Maltija , a country dance which Roman had told her began in the royal courts of the eighteenth century . |
| 26 | Get her to sit on the bottom stair and put them on , as this way she 'll have better access to the fastening . |
| 27 | Her husband said the extra 1,100 dollars a month would enable her to go into a private nursing home . |
| 28 | Still , even when Grigorovich refused three years ago to let her guest at the Royal Ballet , she did what she was told . |
| 29 | Germany interpreted her constitution as forbidding her to participate in the military operation , and Belgium refused to sell ammunition to the British army . |
| 30 | She said ‘ hello ’ to you ’ ) , teaching her to eat in the proper way ( ‘ Close your mouth when you are eating and do n't gulp your food ’ ) , and so on . |