Example sentences of "[verb] her [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Her fiancé has now reported her as a missing person , I believe . ’
2 ‘ Giles Hawick is taking it seriously enough to have reported her as a missing person , ’ he said tightly .
3 Lady Constance visited some suffragettes imprisoned in Holloway gaol , and this experience transformed her into a public figure with a single-minded burning cause .
4 Nottingham Crown Court 's been told that a taxi driver sexually assaulted a woman passenger after ignoring her instructions and driving her to a secluded area in Clumber Park .
5 And a court in Nottingham hears how a taxi driver sexually assaulted a female passenger after driving her to a secluded spot in Park .
6 A court in London has heard how a taxi driver sexually assaulted a female passenger after driving her to a secluded spot in Clumber Park .
7 It was a size too small , but finally the leather stretched so that it fit her like an elastic corset .
8 She giggled when his second attempt ended in the same way , and when he grasped her in a great bear hug , she was able to slip away as easily as if it were a child holding her .
9 Then , when they turned out on to the main road , Luke overtook her with an authoritative toot .
10 Alice Perrers 's intimacy with the king began in the 1360s , and she received lavish gifts of jewellery and clothes , together with enough property to establish her as a substantial landowner in her own right .
11 There was a time , early in their days at Cambridge , when a brilliant and handsome research student from Yale made a determined pitch for Robyn , and she had been rather dazzled and excited by the experience ( he wooed her with a heady mixture of the latest post Freudian theoretical jargon and devastatingly frank sexual propositions , so she was never quite sure whether it was Lacan 's symbolic phallus he was referring to or his own real one ) .
12 For as she turned towards him , a great fall of bright copper hair , loosened by the wild chase , came cascading about her shoulders and fell to her waist , enveloping her in a rippling sheet of flame .
13 Lucy spent just three days in intensive care before doctors moved her to an ordinary ward at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital .
14 Lucenzo ruthlessly hurried the shaken Meredith through a small door , to the sound of indulgent ribaldry , and drew her into a small salotto .
15 I drew her into a shadowy window embrasure .
16 A legacy from a great-aunt had bought their house and provided her with a small income .
17 In January 1990 the Education Department provided her with a new tutor .
18 Without a word , Lucenzo offered her a jug of coffee and flicked a quick finger at the alert barman , who provided her with a fresh cup .
19 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 .
20 Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance .
21 ( II.iv.42 ) — but proceeds to proposition her with a debased contract , that she should exchange her chastity for her brother 's life .
22 By an effort of memory she could just recall a time when money had been plentiful , and her father — then strong and well — had spent it with a gay extravagance which had delighted her as a small child .
23 Mrs Nowak had impressed her as a strong woman , a woman inclined to fantasy perhaps , but resilient and not inclined to despair .
24 Her instructor , Sally Sheffield , described her as a competent first-aider who did not panic .
25 He fixed her with a cool stare .
26 He fixed her with a bloodshot eye .
27 He fixed her with a glittering eye .
28 He fixed her in a maddened stare and she saw the blood running from his gashed hand .
29 The story of Gilly Hopkins is very sad : Gilly has the opportunity to gain everything she 's always wanted — someone who cares about her and forgives her and is willing to provide her with a loving home , but Gilly throws all this away simply by writing a letter when she 's feeling very upset .
30 And it would be nice if you were to provide her with a little brother or sister . ’
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