Example sentences of "[verb] her in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He fixed her in a maddened stare and she saw the blood running from his gashed hand . |
| 4 | He found her in a small kitchen . |
| 5 | I found her in a large day-room where groups of elderly ladies sat in plastic-covered armchairs . |
| 6 | He helped her in a two-year battle against cancer and to come to terms with her double mastectomy . |
| 7 | I arranged to meet her in the tiny port at Tala-Tala where she was waiting for me . |
| 8 | put her in a mental hospital or a |
| 9 | they put her in a bloody trolley and oh course she said , this woman said erm |
| 10 | Put her in an early grave ? |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , Nana , ’ Martha assured her in a distracted tone . |
| 12 | ‘ He wo n't be at this place , ’ Doreen assured her in a lofty tone . |
| 13 | ‘ And there you are wrong , ’ Alain assured her in an amused voice . |
| 14 | As a lover , he had bored her , but she liked the idea of his having to steel himself to visit her in the filthy venue she had chosen for their affair . |
| 15 | He paused , eyeing her in the clinical way she 'd come to recognise . |
| 16 | Beth told her in a reproachful voice . |
| 17 | ‘ The only way you 're going to hurt me is by running away from me , ’ he told her in a rough voice . |
| 18 | ‘ It is a lucky man or woman , ’ he told her in a soft voice , ‘ who is blessed with the privilege of being able to pick and choose the challenges he or she must face in life . |
| 19 | ‘ I would n't bother coming back , ’ he told her in a detached voice . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , I suggest yer get yerself a good mouser , ’ Mr Goodrich told her in no uncertain manner . |
| 21 | Everything within her wanted to fight him , but the forbidding expression on his harsh features , and the unmistakable threat in his voice , told her in no uncertain manner she 'd regret it if she did . |
| 22 | The predatory gleam in his eyes told her in no uncertain manner that he wanted her too . |
| 23 | Physically , she was looking better than Harriet had seen her in a long while . |
| 24 | Her limbs were graceful , her whole body proportioned like that of a young goddess ; as for her breasts , an infatuated young man who had seen her in a small part at Robert 's Shield Theatre wrote her a letter quoting the Song of Solomon at length : Asshe threatened to horsewhip him . |
| 25 | It was the first time I had seen her in a pale colour — a light grey dress which made her seem shadowy . |
| 26 | For a long while , I could see her in the rear-view mirror , standing in the dusty road in her long white dress , holding her child and looking after the Felder . |
| 27 | It was n't as if he could see her in the flimsy satin nightdress , was it ? |
| 28 | ‘ I screwed her in a hot-air balloon . |
| 29 | Charlie followed Mrs Shorrocks into Number 110 , joined her in the tiny kitchen and collapsed on to a wooden chair . |
| 30 | She could n't even accuse him of laying a finger on her , since she was always fast asleep when he joined her in the large bed , and the twins arrived to wake her up in the morning . |