Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] her [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years .
2 You 're burying her in the wrong grave . ’
3 That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days .
4 Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years .
5 Now they are taking her to the High Court .
6 She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut .
7 Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers …
8 He might have been receiving her in the best parlour on a Sunday afternoon .
9 It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room .
10 He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time .
11 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 .
12 Ted had pulled Katherine away , was navigating her towards the other end of the room .
13 Josey was watching her from the other side of the fireplace .
14 His pole was impaling her to the absolute limit , and she began panting as if she 'd just run the four-minute mile .
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