Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] her [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm just grateful I met her before the final operation . ’ |
| 3 | I phoned her on the fourth night to say goodnight to her that was all . |
| 4 | In an effort to find an ally in helping her , I mentioned her to the local priest . |
| 5 | I told her about the tragic young man . |
| 6 | I told her about the Scottish physicist Charles ( C.T.R. ) Wilson 's interest in meteorology and of his accidental discovery of the tracks . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I told her of the dead snake that you and she had found once , and which had been your special secret . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I followed her to the Georgian wing where the rooms were more human size . |
| 11 | … nothing prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh soon afterwards . |
| 12 | Skirting the lakeside , she took a route which led her in the opposite direction from him . |
| 13 | A longer length of rope was circled around her shoulders and under the table , then over her gorgeous breasts and downwards until her rib cage was completely covered in coiled rope , which fastened her to the hard wooden table . |
| 14 | Nobody helped her beyond the poor sad girl at the library to whom she was kind and who now bounded about the romantic fiction section for her , feverishly pulling down titles she thought Kitty would like . |
| 15 | Mota , from Portugal , suffered yet again with a mysterious stomach complaint , which affected her during the last world championships . |
| 16 | In some ways I feel her peculiar dilemma parallels my own for she described her stance as one which distanced her from the classical anthropological mode , creating a ‘ memorable adventure ’ , which she claims , ‘ has marked me for life ’ ( ibid. 22 ) . |
| 17 | At three-thirty Kattina appeared , and stepped into a taxi which took her into the bustling centre of Cairo . |
| 18 | The popular myth paints a homely picture of the Queen Mother ducking around Diana as she schooled her in the subtle arts of royal protocol while the Queen 's senior lady-in-waiting , Lady Susan Hussey took the young woman aside for tuition in regal history . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm glad she waited for the wedding to be over , ’ whispered Mrs Alderley in Theda 's ear , as she joined her by the French windows that had been opened to the terrace outside . |
| 20 | It was in Schiaparelli that she met Tricarico , who brought her aboard the Resplendent Trogon , which led her into the presence of Balthazar Plum — and if it had n't been for all that , she would never have acquired the Alice in the first place . |
| 21 | Rosa was there drinking fruit juice with Fritz Kott and a few other pupils from the Egon Schultz School who greeted her with the same , unanimous question : ‘ What happened ? ’ |
| 22 | But nothing reached her from the other cabin . |
| 23 | Listening to her talk about the make of corset she wore and the neckline shape that best suited her , speaking on these matters with the kind of solemnity they would only have brought to bear on the country 's economic situation or the future of the United Nations , they regarded her with the polite incomprehension with which they would have looked at a Martian . |
| 24 | There was just enough time for Bobbie to make herself tidy before they called her into the front room . |
| 25 | Mm , Cathy knew what they called her in the initial stage |
| 26 | They reminded her of the cardboard kaleidoscope she had as a child , packed with coloured fragments , which she looked into for hours , turning and watching , turning and watching . |
| 27 | She kept clear of everybody in the house in case they reminded her of the ill person her uncle had become . |
| 28 | TWO friends of Cadbury 's Flake model Rachel Brown last night denied they supplied her with the deadly drug Ecstasy . |
| 29 | He led her to the far room where she had found Leo . |
| 30 | He led her to the last desk in the line , on which she could see a sheaf of pink sheets of paper . |