Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] her in the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When he goes out there to wait for her in the evening , I sometimes think : It is n't Rosa .
2 But when he came to sit opposite her in the dining-room that first evening , he felt he had made a mistake .
3 Alice afterwards — in an effort to safeguard her position — claimed that it was the queen who had summoned her and who had promised to look after her in the future .
4 People turned to stare at her in the street .
5 Sometimes , when she was all alone in the house , she would call Frankie downstairs to sit with her in the kitchen by the fire .
6 This time Freddie elected to sit with her in the front of the car .
7 She turned to look into Gazzer 's face , concentrating her attention on him for the first time since he had climbed up to sit beside her in the sand dunes .
8 Gradually he did begin to stay with her in the evenings and to neglect the cafés .
9 In what seems a somewhat specious argument , she urges Leo to bathe with her in the fire so that their mortal sins may be purged : but although the fire at first seems to do her no harm as she shows him the way into it , the self-seeking nature of her love becomes evident as her ageless beauty is destroyed :
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