Example sentences of "of [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came within an ace of slapping her around . |
| 2 | The thought of touching her makes me sick ! ’ |
| 3 | He tells of one teacher who was interviewed by police for 12 hours , and then suspended from work for six months after one of his pupils accused him of touching her up . |
| 4 | He was frightened of touching her . |
| 5 | Maybe if you told me , I could kind of suss her out . |
| 6 | As his hand came to her arm she lashed out at him and he caught her close to save himself the trouble of subduing her in any other way . |
| 7 | He had this way of drawing her to him and she always seemed to go . |
| 8 | If she responds favourably to this ( which , if you are wise , you will have conveyed more through your attitudes than your actual words ) , you and her other helpers should try to create various circumstances or events which may stand a chance of helping her to break the habit of mourning : an interesting holiday , perhaps , or some new and mildly challenging experience which calls for her to look beyond herself to someone else in trouble , who will make her feel ‘ needed ’ . |
| 9 | If inviting an elderly parent to come to live with you in your own home seems to be the best way of helping her in her last years , the first overtures you make to her on this subject need to be very tactful , bearing all the hallmarks of a really welcoming invitation . |
| 10 | I was not desperate to make money at that time , rather I thought of helping her with the commission she would take . |
| 11 | Almost too late to be of real use , a rehabilitation unit took her in and began the slow , hard work of helping her and her family reconstruct and make sense of their situation . |
| 12 | If this was his way of helping her then Maggie did n't think much of it . |
| 13 | He was not sure how she would take it , leaving the house before they had intended and moving up north ; also , in the last few years he had got into the habit of sparing her any unnecessary decisions or arguments . |
| 14 | If Amaranth was not going to be accepted as the candidate , and if she refused to co-operate with him over the new motorway , and if she rejected his amorous advances , what was the point of pursuing her ? |
| 15 | She would not give them the satisfaction of seeing her beg . |
| 16 | How odd , Alec thought , I 've been thinking about her all the time since I came here , trying to think of some way of seeing her again . |
| 17 | This realisation touched him , took the shock of seeing her and softened it . |
| 18 | Sadly , she never carries cash , so any hope of seeing her choose something unusually revolting for daughter-in-law Fergie soon faded . |
| 19 | I knew Mrs Reed would be there too and I was frightened of seeing her again . |
| 20 | The Marshal could not stop her , and , although I was afraid for her , I was excited at the thought of seeing her again . |
| 21 | There was no way that she would give him the satisfaction of seeing her emerge later in the evening with puffy red eyes . |
| 22 | After next week there 'll be no chance whatever of seeing her again . ’ |
| 23 | She must of turns her , hers up full cos it did go cold did n't it I mean , outside ? |
| 24 | What was the point of reminding her ? |
| 25 | Maybe this was his little way of reminding her that she was not really his type of woman . |
| 26 | This was his way of reminding her that he intended to remain free . |
| 27 | Goodness knows I 've got only a bare chance of catching her , though . ’ |
| 28 | She knew that even if Miss Clinton had n't had so long a start , her daddy would have little hope of catching her up in his old car . |
| 29 | Her reticence about certain areas of her private life irked him , and he occasionally found an excuse to ring early in the hope of catching her unawares . |
| 30 | Preparing potatoes at the sink with her back turned to the child can be a helpful way of encouraging her to ignore the child during eating . |