Example sentences of "[verb] her [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Lucenzo ruthlessly hurried the shaken Meredith through a small door , to the sound of indulgent ribaldry , and drew her into a small salotto . |
| 12 | I drew her into a shadowy window embrasure . |
| 13 | A legacy from a great-aunt had bought their house and provided her with a small income . |
| 14 | In January 1990 the Education Department provided her with a new tutor . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance . |
| 17 | ( II.iv.42 ) — but proceeds to proposition her with a debased contract , that she should exchange her chastity for her brother 's life . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Mrs Nowak had impressed her as a strong woman , a woman inclined to fantasy perhaps , but resilient and not inclined to despair . |
| 20 | Her instructor , Sally Sheffield , described her as a competent first-aider who did not panic . |
| 21 | He fixed her with a cool stare . |
| 22 | He fixed her with a bloodshot eye . |
| 23 | He fixed her with a glittering eye . |
| 24 | He fixed her in a maddened stare and she saw the blood running from his gashed hand . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And it would be nice if you were to provide her with a little brother or sister . ’ |
| 27 | The therapist agreed to see Pamela as in outpatient in 5 days ' time to provide her with a further chance to talk about her difficulties and also to provide her with support . |
| 28 | In 1989 , the wife of the " Yorkshire Ripper " was awarded £600,000 by a jury to compensate her for a false story in " Private Eye " , published eight years previously , to the effect that she had been prepared to sell her story to newspapers . |
| 29 | Her abilities might suit her to a top job in the Civil Service , but she gets such a buzz from being in the private sector , she would hate the very idea . |
| 30 | He found her in a small kitchen . |