Example sentences of "[prep] her [noun sg] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is precisely this sort of arrangement — ‘ rooms had been taken there because they were to start by an early train on that line in the morning ’ — that leads to a fraught dinner party for Clara Amedroz and the two rivals for her hand at the Great Northern Hotel , King 's Cross , in Anthony Trollope 's The Belton Estate ( 1865 ) . |
| 2 | We lined up on the foredeck to give the traditional three cheers for her Majesty at the appropriate moment . |
| 3 | She tried to pray for her father at the same time , but Madeleine danced across her invocation , Madeleine provocative in yellow piqué and high-heeled sandals disrupted her holy words . |
| 4 | Lucenzo burst into laughter himself , and she wished he had n't , a sharp jolt of awareness rocketing through her body at the dazzling transformation of his face and the deep , warm sound that had travelled through her to her tingling toes . |
| 5 | Helynsar ran well in the later stages of her race at the last meeting when Treat Me Good scored and she may be worth following against a moderate lot in the Moira Novices Chase . |
| 6 | Away from the defence debate Dr Mowlam also yesterday spoke of her despair at the growing homeless problem in her constituency . |
| 7 | Curbishley won the senior women 's race in an encouraging 63.7 seconds , even though she tore a ligament at the side of her knee at the halfway mark . |
| 8 | She told another foreign reporter that she had spent most of her time at the General Staff learning English . |
| 9 | The audience held its breath … and I secretly prayed that the manager would support me — unlike her counterpart at the Philharmonic Hall who earlier this year asked a young disabled woman to leave the hall because she ‘ offended ’ the visiting conductor . |
| 10 | With a hopeless shrug of resignation she hurriedly put on a slim linen dress , which she had only thrown into her case at the last minute . |
| 11 | She bit her lip , conscious of the colour racing into her face at the unexpected praise . |
| 12 | At the [ material ] time the plaintiff had come from the back door of the house and had walked diagonally across the first concrete area ; she was intending to go and have a chat with her neighbour at the next house . |
| 13 | So was Alice Dodds , who lived with her family at the far end of the Butts . |
| 14 | She leaned forward , her hair falling across her face , and as he lifted his head she brought her lips down on his , parting them with her tongue at the same moment as she felt his hands unzipping her jeans . |
| 15 | Red lights seemed to explode inside her head at the outrageous arrogance of his words . |
| 16 | Because she knew he would be meeting her at the road alone , she had risen very early and bathed and scented herself with special care in her suite at the Continental Palace that morning . |
| 17 | Although ‘ Moore Intime ’ had the cooperation of the Henry Moore Foundation , she reminded everyone of her diverging views in her speech at the inaugural dinner : ‘ I can see and feel the real Henry Moore in this exhibition in a way that has never before been achieved . |
| 18 | Mrs. Rene Henry , our Chairman , will undoubtedly make reference to these affairs in her report at the Annual General Meeting to be held , by kind permission of Matron Elder , at the Nursing Home at 7.30 pm. on Monday , 26th . |
| 19 | In her time at the Royal Academy she remembered buskers in the tube , but they played rock or sometimes jazz . |
| 20 | Some find her inconsistencies maddening , failing to understand how a right-on feminist could have done such a thing as using Mandy Smith in her show at the very height of the tabloid fuss over Smith 's under-age relationship with Bill Wyman . |
| 21 | Sitting in her office at the historic Philharmonic Hall , she contemplates her newfound lease of life . |
| 22 | In her self-portrait at the national Portrait Gallery she appears ‘ characteristically in a suit ’ . |
| 23 | When she turned to question Lucenzo , her breath caught in her throat at the infinite tenderness in his eyes . |
| 24 | She gave us much happiness until her death at the great age of nineteen . |
| 25 | Leonie von Wilckens has been working in this area for over thirty years from her base at the German National Museum in Nuremberg , home of a major textile collection . |
| 26 | The Springfield Striders veteran , fresh from her success at the previous weekend 's Border Half-Marathon , clocked 2.06.13 . |
| 27 | She rose from her chair at the little antique bureau which stood in the attic window space , bent down and fumbled for the catch of the secret drawer which she had found there . |
| 28 | She walks from her flat at the wrong end of Ladbroke Grove , along the Harrow Road , under various stretches of motorway , past the Metropole Hotel where she calls in to buy herself a drink in the Cosmo-Cocktail Bar ( she is perversely fond of the Metropole Hotel ) , and then through various increasingly handsome although gloomy back streets , until she arrives at the arranged corner . |
| 29 | Then she caught sight of his reflection , and turned to face him , all the colour draining from her face at the harsh expression which sharpened the well-cut bones of his face . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , no , pray , ’ she begged , dropping the bread and rising also , and casting an apprehensive glance over her shoulder at the closed door . |