Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] her [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am fondling her like a memory , in the way you stroke a cat : knowing it 's there , glad it 's purring , but letting thoughts wander like your fingers tickling the fur . |
| 2 | After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . |
| 3 | He thinks that I am selling her for the night . |
| 4 | ‘ No , I 'm taking her to the doctor 's . ’ |
| 5 | I 'd gone across to the old folks ' home to have a chat with Maureen and , inevitably , I was telling her about the trouble I was having . |
| 6 | So do I and I was just talking to her downstairs and I was asking her like the differences between here and the States , you know the boar cos she was in a boarding school before , and she was saying erm how you know just generally the people are nicer and the blokes talk to you not just because you 're cos they |
| 7 | the forces of the countries of the socialist camp are so great today and they are so strong economically that they can fully take upon themselves , on the basis of the development of normal trade relations , the provision of Cuba with all the necessary goods which are denied her by the United States … the Soviet Union is prepared to deliver oil and other goods in amounts fully meeting the requirements of Cuba , in exchange for Cuban goods . |
| 8 | She was aware of nothing else but his compelling , mesmeric eyes , which were rooting her to the spot , setting a torch to her , the shooting flames searing her insides . |
| 9 | ‘ Nobody 's seen her for a week , and she 's not taken any of her stuff . ’ |
| 10 | She had £8,000 in the Gibraltar fund , a substantial slice of which was providing her with a monthly income . |
| 11 | You 're burying her in the wrong grave . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Luce is fond of you and she does n't want to hurt you , but you 're putting her in an impossible situation by your pig-headedness . |
| 13 | Three men who were visiting her in the flat were also attacked and beaten . |
| 14 | And it would be nice if you were to provide her with a little brother or sister . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ She 's turned her into a proper little snob ! ’ |
| 16 | One of them was that the nurse , robbed of her pleasure in subduing the hair , turned her savagery more directly on to Harriet and once in a temper broke both of her charge 's thumbs when she was forcing her into a new pair of white kid gloves for Sunday School . |
| 17 | Mrs Brooks ' dog was almost run over recently as she was putting her into the car . |
| 18 | The order was for the production of material relating to the purchase by a client , Mrs G , of certain real property , the allegation being that she was a member of the family of another person who was suspected of being a drug trafficker and who was using her for the purpose of laundering the proceeds of such trafficking . |
| 19 | There was a much-told tale of her Australian infancy that was held to be prophetic in this respect — about how at the age of three she had , by the sheer force of her will , compelled her uncle Walter ( who was taking her for a walk to the local shops at the time ) to put all the money he had on his person into a charity collecting-box in the shape of a plaster-of-Paris boy cripple ; as a result of which the uncle , too embarrassed to admit to this folly and borrow from his relatives , had run out of petrol on the way back to his sheep station . |
| 20 | It is her ambition to be tried for her life for murdering a small tobacconist with a meat-cleaver , only to be dramatically cleared when her alibi is established by the bishop who was confirming her at the very moment of the crime . |
| 21 | No one is fighting her for the task of serving school dinners to the juniors . |
| 22 | " Well … something 's put her in a bad form … " |
| 23 | Now they are taking her to the High Court . |
| 24 | ‘ They 're putting her in a cage so that people can see her . |
| 25 | And they 're doing her for a road traffic accident at Morrow Road when Simon the bike . |
| 26 | She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut . |
| 27 | And then when they were taking her in the ambulance , the nerves , I was sitting fucking laughing |
| 28 | Poor Mrs got two lots of children and they were driving her up the wall ! |
| 29 | The one time they were encouraged to sit her on a chair , after she had scratched her sister , both parents moved over to her and fussed her , talking and explaining to her why they were putting her on the chair . |
| 30 | He is seeing her off the premises at this minute . ’ |