Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [prep] her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed so strange to find no Sambo waiting for her in the hall . |
| 2 | Ruth heard Gran talking to her in the office — which was only a partitioned off slice of the kitchen , so Ruth could hear every word as she stacked the dishwasher . |
| 3 | Right now it would have taken more than a memory of someone else 's predictions to have any effect on the blazing anger stirring in her at the prospect of sweaty workmen and a ruined holiday . |
| 4 | Meg was busy trying on hats at the far side of the room , the android assistant standing beside her at the mirror , a stack of round , candy-striped boxes in her arms . |
| 5 | One night Kit stumbled by , when Ariel was sitting outside the cabin , with the baby sleeping near her in the small hammock she had rigged up for him . |
| 6 | She was floating along the aisle of a dimly lit church , the only reality the beautiful white dress she was wearing and the man waiting for her at the altar , and even he was shrouded in a mist , preventing her from seeing his face . |
| 7 | The man sitting with her on the sofa said , ‘ Are the kids in bed ? ’ |
| 8 | She knew that this would be a black cloud hanging over her for the rest of her working life . |
| 9 | Maggie burst into tears at the sight of the house and the small familiar crowd waiting for her outside the wooden gate of the garden . |
| 10 | Maggie looked blankly at the face grinning at her from the queue , and as she pushed a cup of tea across the counter she said , ‘ You were saying ? ’ |
| 11 | Mary turned her head , and noticed Ben Weatherstaff 's angry face looking at her over the garden wall . |
| 12 | She caught a glimpse of her mother watching for her through the window , before the net curtain dropped . |