Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [verb] her [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He 'd not offered to help her with the Christmas preparations and she had n't felt like asking him .
2 He did not answer her immediately , just continued to watch her across the table , his blue eyes suddenly as cold as ice .
3 Anne agreed , disappointed that he had not suggested meeting her outside the factory where her friends could see him , but happy to meet him anywhere .
4 Nothing Ruth had ever imagined prepared her for the magnificence of that day 's scene on the Mersey , though she saw most of it through a mist of tears .
5 And he had probably expected to see her at the shop this morning , while she had been waiting impatiently at his office .
6 She was disappointed that he had n't arranged to meet her during the afternoon or even later on .
7 If he had n't managed to convince her during the past eighteen years , he was unlikely to succeed this morning .
8 The kitchen and the one spare bedroom were constantly , noisily occupied , the doorbell rang at all hours , and once , answering it , a man she had never seen struck her on the side of the head with an empty bottle and told her to leave his wife alone .
9 He was very tempted to tell her about The Yellow Chair .
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