Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] her [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Francie grinned , and joined in with her after the first few phrases . |
| 2 | A neighbour suggested I go along with her to the local WI and , despite my reservations , I had a wonderful time . |
| 3 | ‘ What 's wrong , Laura ? ’ he asked , coming to sit down beside her on the black leather sofa . |
| 4 | He followed his plan , eased himself down beside her on the cushioned sofa and slid his arm along the back behind her . |
| 5 | She did not get up and come towards him as he got out , but waited until he had crossed the grass to sit down beside her on the wooden seat . |
| 6 | She pulled him down beside her in the long grass , and smiled shyly at him as she undressed . |
| 7 | She stirred against him , and he mistook it for something like the small movements of a child asleep , and smiled down at her through the slow current of perfume rising from her black , turmoiled hair ; but she was awake and brought her head up , drawing away from him a little , looking at him , so that he had to hide his smile quickly , because it was n't something he had meant her to see . |
| 8 | My wife still knows a person born shortly after her at the same maternity hospital . |
| 9 | Léonie edged away from her on the warm plastic seat . |
| 10 | She eventually got through to her in the early evening . |
| 11 | They do this by guarding the female , staying close to her during the ten days or so when she is fertile . |
| 12 | But they had made her feel restless with their talk and it was in that mood that she 'd let the landlord get close to her by the open landing window as he was bringing up some more beer . |
| 13 | It sounded as though the reality of what they were doing had come home to her for the first time . |
| 14 | A team of linguists and experts in primate communication have been working intensively with her during the past year to teach her English . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His admirable Swiss detectives had checked up on her with the central police register of foreigners , and then elicited the information from the police in Jersey . |
| 17 | Holmes , enthusiastic and friendly as ever , bounded up to her with the allotted amount of lead a fraction longer than I anticipated . |
| 18 | She 'd bent down to pick up the purchases at her feet , and as she rose again she 'd caught sight of a face she knew , looking straight at her through the moving mesh of people . |
| 19 | She went over to the shelf where she had left her drink , and stared down in dismay at the overturned glass , the shards of crystal glinting wickedly up at her in the dim light . |
| 20 | Her reflection looked up at her from the dark water . |
| 21 | Both made from remnants of terylene bought by Madeleine at a sale in Le Havre and run up by her on the black and gold sewing-machine you had to pedal like a toy car . |
| 22 | She held her breath for a moment and then the tears and the breath burst out of her at the same time . |
| 23 | She knew this from the hushed voices of the nursery staff and from the comings and goings far below her in the great house . |
| 24 | There , spread out below her in the late afternoon sun , was Florence . |
| 25 | When at last they began to come out to her in the sun-drenched quadrangle on the Castle 's south side , where she liked to sit , she was patient and cautious . |
| 26 | All I had to do was to ferry myself out to her in the inflatable dinghy , with a jerrican of water and a bag of fresh vegetables , eggs , and some rashers of bacon . |
| 27 | And when Cadfael came slowly back to her across the empty court , she stood in his way great-eyed , fronting him gravely as if she would penetrate into the most remote recesses of his mind . |
| 28 | He was clever at finding bargains , reporting back to her about the special offers , the cheaper lines . |
| 29 | He gazed back at her across the stained table with appalled eyes , linked to her by that bloodstained gurgle of water which was gushing through both their minds , sharing the same dreadful imagining of that silently emerging figure , the raised and bloody knife . |
| 30 | When a few minutes later , amid the oohs and aahs from the three women , she stood and looked at the person staring back at her from the long mirror , she could n't believe it was herself . |