Example sentences of "[verb] her [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a size too small , but finally the leather stretched so that it fit her like an elastic corset . |
| 2 | Then , when they turned out on to the main road , Luke overtook her with an authoritative toot . |
| 3 | Lucy spent just three days in intensive care before doctors moved her to an ordinary ward at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Therefore , three and a half years after the accident , Dawn accepted the amount offered , which was sufficient to pay back the £70,000 her father had spent on her treatment and a specially adapted car , and to provide her with an ongoing income to cover her living expenses . |
| 6 | Loving her with his hands and his mouth , disrobing her with an erotic skill that brought her flesh to fire , he discarded his own clothes with an economy of movement , revealing his body to her in all the beauty of its prime , before embarking on a journey of initiation which had her sobbing his name . |
| 7 | Straightening up , Roman regarded her with an unreadable expression . |
| 8 | He stopped her with an impatient gesture . |
| 9 | Put her in an early grave ? |
| 10 | The rapist approached the 17-year-old waitress in a bus station at Holmfirth , West Yorks , and subjected her to an hour-long ordeal . |
| 11 | ‘ And there you are wrong , ’ Alain assured her in an amused voice . |
| 12 | Meredith trembled , overwhelmed by the sheer proximity of him , the heat and vitality of his body filling her with an unholy excitement . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Someone interviewed her for an Italian magazine — they 're doing a piece about her family , or so she says . |
| 15 | The scents from the sodden earth filled her with an intolerable weight of memory ; not that of individual occasions but of the entire past . |
| 16 | In the end she decided that she did not like being a sightseer : the role filled her with an obscure rage . |
| 17 | The thought of it filled her with an immense regret because a child could not stay a child there would be men ( a man she hoped ) in Nicandra 's life , Aunt Tossie thought with pity and some disgust — her mind scampered hurriedly from the contemplation of a subject not forbidden so much as not existing for her . |
| 18 | But if Urquhart were speaking the truth at last — and she wondered whether yet another web of deception was being woven about her — he had forged her into an unwitting tool of the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | The streets of the city welcomed her as an old friend as she made her way unerringly towards the brilliantly lit entrance of Tivoli . |
| 20 | But was that really her fault — or was I presenting her with an impossible task ? |
| 21 | The Countess of Essex had employed the magician , Simon Forman [ q.v. ] , to secure the love of Robert Carr ( later Earl of Somerset , q.v. ) , the king 's favourite , and to rid her of an unwanted husband . |
| 22 | The other is to find well-paid employment which will provide her with an adequate income to afford the repayments . |
| 23 | He 'd stood up as he spoke , and came to loom disturbingly large over her before spinning one of the chairs at the table and straddling it , resting his forearms on the back and fixing her with an unfathomable gaze . |
| 24 | She wanted to check , but Sharpe pushed her through a gap in a straggling hedgerow and spurred her across an undulating pasture which , years before , had been under the plough and the old furrows still formed corrugations that faced Sharpe like waves of pale grass . |
| 25 | As the abrasive words poured into her ears , he was moving her against an ornamental lacquerwork cabinet of hip height and bending her backwards , a hand dealing with the intricacies of her bustier with a sure skill that bore witness to a wealth of experience with even the most esoteric of feminine garments . |
| 26 | I would cherish her like an old man who 's caught a barmaid . |
| 27 | He followed her with an easy stride , blocked her escape , looming very tall and dark above her . |
| 28 | Alice may enter a looking-glass world where unexpected things happen , but she is still constituted like a human being : walking may take her in an unexpected direction , but the nature of the physical act of walking is taken for granted . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | THE actress Helena Bonham Carter is asking a court to protect her from an obsessive fan who is making her life a misery . |