Example sentences of "[verb] her [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was an impressive narrative , and impressively narrated ; Clara found her craving for the bizarre and the involved richly satisfied . |
| 3 | Alex recounted her meeting with the young painter and they laughed together . |
| 4 | Let him picture her pottering in the improvised chaos of a damp , windowless room … |
| 5 | He had seen her sitting at the high table among the other ladies of noble birth who served the Empress . |
| 6 | you 'd just gone , it 's a wonder you did n't see her coming round the bloody corner . |
| 7 | Huy tried to imagine her going through the simple ceremony with someone else , and could not . |
| 8 | Sara looked sulky and left them to it , and they heard her calling to the old lady with rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 9 | Unable to sleep he had drawn back the front flaps of his hut to watch the spectacular storm and had been startled to see her dashing across the flooded clearing in the glare of the lightning flashes . |
| 10 | Old Black Hannah put in an appearance , and one or two other women from the village who remembered Martha as a child , and who , perhaps , shared her liking for the Old Faith ; but apart from them , it was just Mr Drew ( who galloped through the service as fast as he could ) , Jennifer and the two gravediggers , who came in after the blessing and carried the coffin out underhand , dumping it without much reverence into the mortice they had prepared for it . |
| 11 | Her anger kept her going for the best part of two days , but then Mick bumped into her and asked how Jack was , and she told him , in words of one syllable . |
| 12 | One morning , on his way down to breakfast , Dada saw her kneeling on the left-hand flight of the double staircase ; thinking she was saying her prayers , she was bent so low , Dada stepped past her politely . |
| 13 | Then she came to London and I saw her sitting in the twelfth or thirteenth row of the Royal Festival Hall . |
| 14 | She thinks about the structure of Disraeli 's Sybil : or , the Two Nations ( 1845 ) , until the sound of the Guardian dropping on to the doormat sends her scurrying to the front door . ) |
| 15 | There was no school on a Saturday and she would probably demand that he take her skating on the frozen lakes in the park — and in all honesty he did n't want to disappoint her . |
| 16 | Also , he had kept her waiting at the Old Mitre and she would have preferred him to say everything then , or telephone now , rather than trail after her . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't want to ask you anything more now , Mrs Hatton , ’ he said to the widow as he left her weeping among the dead man 's ill-gotten glories . |