Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] her [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FERDINAND … . my imagination will carry me To see her in the shameful act of sin … . |
| 2 | Someone points her to an unimportant stool in a far comer . |
| 3 | I led her to a small shelter in the Palace side of the Park . |
| 4 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 5 | I met her in a big line-up of people and it was very difficult for her . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm just grateful I met her before the final operation . ’ |
| 7 | I found her in a large day-room where groups of elderly ladies sat in plastic-covered armchairs . |
| 8 | ‘ I helped her through a bad time , you see . |
| 9 | I phoned her on the fourth night to say goodnight to her that was all . |
| 10 | I drew her into a shadowy window embrasure . |
| 11 | In an effort to find an ally in helping her , I mentioned her to the local priest . |
| 12 | I told her about the tragic young man . |
| 13 | I told her about the Scottish physicist Charles ( C.T.R. ) Wilson 's interest in meteorology and of his accidental discovery of the tracks . |
| 14 | I told her of the big green seas , all crinkled and slow , heaving up astern as the icy wind scoured their tops into freezing spume . |
| 15 | I told her of the dead snake that you and she had found once , and which had been your special secret . |
| 16 | When I found her the other side of my desk I told her in no uncertain terms I was n't having anything to do with it . |
| 17 | Someone interviewed her for an Italian magazine — they 're doing a piece about her family , or so she says . |
| 18 | Mrs Smith needs someone to help her with the practical side of caring , to arrange respite breaks , coordinate the nursing input and ensure that the hospital and local authority services work together with her . |
| 19 | But was that really her fault — or was I presenting her with an impossible task ? |
| 20 | ‘ I screwed her in a hot-air balloon . |
| 21 | I kick her in the mental shins . |
| 22 | As I get her into a fresh pair of rubber knickers I feel something cold on my face . |
| 23 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 24 | As one who knew her and her husband only a little , I remember her as a vivacious lady of beauty and charm who worked throughout her life for many good causes . |
| 25 | I followed her to the Georgian wing where the rooms were more human size . |
| 26 | This was best summed up by Everett , the market gardener : ‘ She were never a gel , but I knew her as a young woman and she were old then . ’ |
| 27 | In fact I knew her for a tough-minded young woman with feminist leanings and rather more interest in student politics than would be helpful in her academic work . |
| 28 | I saw her through an open doorway . |
| 29 | ‘ I keep her under the white rock . |
| 30 | ‘ I took her to a little friend 's birthday party yesterday — life when you 're almost two has to go on as near to normal as we can make it . |