Example sentences of "[prep] her [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She eyed , with as much dispassion as she could muster , the broad athlete 's physique of the man opposite her across the white-clothed table . |
| 2 | There , spread out below her in the late afternoon sun , was Florence . |
| 3 | She knew this from the hushed voices of the nursery staff and from the comings and goings far below her in the great house . |
| 4 | And the one that had been writhing on the ground recovered itself , lunging towards her from the other side . |
| 5 | Corbett stared past her at the timbered house . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've got to go , ’ he blurted out , skirting past her to the front door . |
| 7 | ‘ The Test , ’ he said , pointing past her to the silvery flash of sunlight on water beyond the village . |
| 8 | Sometimes he was even prevailed upon to stay for dinner , which was usually a casual meal with everyone grouped around Faye and the wheeled tray that was placed in front of her on the padded lounge seat where she spent so much of her time . |
| 9 | As she passed through the gate , to walk beside the stream , Bob Lamb caught sight of her from the other bank of the beck . |
| 10 | Fat chance , she thought dismally , the prospect of two days and three nights without seeing him yawning ahead of her like the Grand Canyon . |
| 11 | When Sandra was nearly fourteen her mother had suddenly grabbed hold of her by the knobbly clothes-prop in the sloping garden and delivered up the one piece of advice that had been fermenting in that already greying head for decades . |
| 12 | It 's not going to be as big as her first marriage , when 47,000 well-wishers crowded the streets around Westminster Abbey to catch a glimpse of her in the magnificent Glass Coach . |
| 13 | I tried not to think of her in the feathery nightdress under the influence of the aphrodisiac . |
| 14 | Then she saw that beneath her on the sacred site of Callanish all of the men and the eagles who had fought had disappeared . |
| 15 | One night Kit stumbled by , when Ariel was sitting outside the cabin , with the baby sleeping near her in the small hammock she had rigged up for him . |
| 16 | She heard a large vehicle draw to a halt behind her on the main road . |
| 17 | A waiter smoothed his blue waistcoat and padded behind her to the round table where she always sat , next to the band and the dance floor . |
| 18 | She looked from the magnificent Renaissance oil-paintings that graced the wall behind her to the perfect symmetry of the mosaic floor in the atrium . |
| 19 | Behind her through the open door , Katherine saw a man she thought she recognized as the porter . |
| 20 | Behind her in the fluorescent glint |
| 21 | Church and state , religion , law , prejudice , custom , tradition , greed , lust , hatred , injustice , selfishness , ignorance , and arrogance have all conspired against her under the sexual rule of the human male . |
| 22 | Squashed against her in the tiny hall , he dripped water and spluttered apologies . |
| 23 | Well she she told me that your M E type symptoms had got a lot worse and I said that 's we had at That 's what I chatted with her about the other day but |
| 24 | ‘ Now th'can go out , ’ he said and went with her into the shadow-filled yard ; one long arm guiding her with relentless force past the lighted windows of the inn , past the well and a small cart , past James Lambert walking shakily towards the back door of the inn , to a dark corner behind a group of empty ale kegs . |
| 25 | You may also need to help her to transfer to the list of your own general practitioner , if she and he are both agreeable to this ; and of course she must be assured that you , or some other member of the family will be with her on the actual day of the move or , if she wishes , take the responsibility of it off her shoulders completely . |
| 26 | He caught up with her on the far side of the teahouse , in an area that was roped off for the staff 's use only . |
| 27 | Her visit produced a flowering of names associated with her on the little island , like Queen Mary 's Bower and Tree , and stories grew up that the five-year-old child began to learn Latin , Greek , Italian and other subjects there , including the art of embroidery for which she was later famous , while taking time off for gardening . |
| 28 | It dawned on him that he had not had a date for weeks , and his first one would be with her at the Edwardian Ball . |
| 29 | A team of linguists and experts in primate communication have been working intensively with her during the past year to teach her English . |
| 30 | Her case had been that the husband had deliberately refrained from discussing the matter of the charge with her during the whole weekend . |