Example sentences of "[prep] her [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who are looking after her have a difficult task and it should not be made more difficult by being harassed by requests for information . |
| 2 | At either side of her stood a faithful attendant , one being a confidential maid , the other a Miss Drake — an old , mittened companion , hardly younger in appearance than herself — both of whom watched her with eyes of solicitous reverence , and seemed always ready to collapse into quasi-religious curtseys . |
| 3 | LOOSE ALICE , also known affectionately as Slack , shot out of the trap in a blur of speed and bore down on the man who was running in front of her squeezing a squeaky toy . |
| 4 | And the hump-backed blueness behind her spread a flat sheet of flesh as the first sunbeam touched it in the valley of shadow . |
| 5 | The man with her demanded a double Scotch on the rocks and Emil told him that alcohol was available only after departure . |
| 6 | He is the son of the phallic mother who has overcome her and fused with her to become a living equivalent of the perfect primal mother , not through self-castration ( the depressive alternative ) , but through manic self-assertion : a sentiment nicely summed up in the ritual of Cybele and her son Attis : ‘ a feeding on milk , as though we were born again ; after which rejoicing and garlands and as it were a return to the gods . |
| 7 | I well remember going with her to buy a new hat ( we all wore hats in my young days ) . |
| 8 | The glide of his hands was leisured and sure , and the wild sensations it evoked in her brought a hectic flush to her cheeks , startled a choked cry from her lips . |
| 9 | Mozart , whose feelings for her took a long time to cool , later wrote more music for her , including the role of Madame Herz in his Singspiel Der Schauspieldirektor ( The Impresario ) , and she was the first Viennese Donna Anna in Don Giovanni . |
| 10 | Di handed back the leased supercar recently following continuing pressure for her to drive a British model . |
| 11 | Lupins for her had a peppery smell , bracken a smell of the sea . |
| 12 | Since then I 've been in contact with Kate Noble of Age Concern and we 've arranged for her to give a short presentation at the next meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council on Thursday 21st January at 7.30 p.m. in Scorton School . |
| 13 | While we have to accept that some people have had a good go at blowing up the present inhabitant , would it not be simpler for her to emulate a previous incumbent and move up the road to Admiralty House ? |
| 14 | While waiting for her to produce a legitimate heir , he managed to father a number of illegitimate children on his six mistresses . |
| 15 | Alice was to work in computers he , Andrew , would arrange for her to have a quick course of training , which would be a sufficient basis on which an intelligent woman like her could build . |
| 16 | After several minutes had passed without her finding a familiar landmark , Luce realised she must have gone wrong somewhere and tried to double back . |
| 17 | For the more ideal and self-contained the housing conditions , the more self-sufficient the housewife becomes and the more pressure there is on her to maintain a perfect home . |
| 18 | Beside her sat a tousled youth , enveloped in a woolly scarf . |