Example sentences of "[prep] her [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , yeah I 'll come with you , you go off and stay with Joyce , look after her for a little while and let Kenneth sort things out ! |
| 2 | The others gaze after her in a casual way and resume their Beatles medley . |
| 3 | She eyed , with as much dispassion as she could muster , the broad athlete 's physique of the man opposite her across the white-clothed table . |
| 4 | There , spread out below her in the late afternoon sun , was Florence . |
| 5 | She knew this from the hushed voices of the nursery staff and from the comings and goings far below her in the great house . |
| 6 | She did not dare look down , but she could feel the machine moving below her like a maddened metal beast prowling backwards and forwards in a pit , its metal jaws opening and closing , clanging and gnashing with thwarted fury . |
| 7 | Her voice trailed away completely as he reached lazily towards her with a long arm . |
| 8 | On Luke 's advice , she had n't mentioned any of his misgivings about the deal she had struck , and the woman now behaved towards her with a patronising graciousness that Folly found intensely irritating . |
| 9 | When she threw a look over her shoulder , however , he had n't given up at all , but was prowling towards her with a bemused smile on his face . |
| 10 | Constance had no time to assess the bewildering exchange of tone that the lunch party had taken before Giancarlo was walking towards her with a vivacious woman by his side who was busily blowing kisses and calling ‘ Ciao ’ to the tables she passed . |
| 11 | Oh , sure , about as safe as a shield of plastic wrap would make her feel if a bear were charging towards her at a full gallop . |
| 12 | She stopped to catch a child by the hand and whisper some word which was rewarded with a kiss , then caught the corner of her veil to cover her already masked face as the chief driver came towards her for a quick answer to a query , always given and received after the words of greeting and queries as to health had been exchanged . |
| 13 | Hurrying towards her across a central green which had been planted out with trees and flowers . |
| 14 | And the one that had been writhing on the ground recovered itself , lunging towards her from the other side . |
| 15 | Brunskill , winner of the Shildon Rail Trail race on Sunday , also had Stansmore in her sights from the start and burst past her on a downhill section after two miles to win by a comfortable 15 seconds . |
| 16 | Madame 's eyes seemed to look past her into a different time . |
| 17 | Corbett stared past her at the timbered house . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've got to go , ’ he blurted out , skirting past her to the front door . |
| 19 | ‘ The Test , ’ he said , pointing past her to the silvery flash of sunlight on water beyond the village . |
| 20 | In this way she guides the attacker 's punch right past her with a successful deflection . |
| 21 | Sometimes he was even prevailed upon to stay for dinner , which was usually a casual meal with everyone grouped around Faye and the wheeled tray that was placed in front of her on the padded lounge seat where she spent so much of her time . |
| 22 | She lathered herself languidly beneath the refreshing jets of water , letting the spray caress every hot , sticky part of her with a glorious wave of sensual awareness . |
| 23 | Blanche squinted thoughtfully , fixing the man in front of her with an inquisitive stare . |
| 24 | Somewhere there was a photograph of her as a small child standing outside the cathedral with the aunt who had brought her up and taken her one day to visit it . |
| 25 | It was important to him , important enough to see that members of his family met her and that he found out what they thought of her as a possible wife for him . |
| 26 | Even a slight anecdote of her as a sixteen-year-old girl guide being seduced in a tent by a boy scout is illustrated . |
| 27 | He 'd become more aware of her as an attractive girl with a very feminine figure that the fashionable flat-chested dress styles could not conceal . |
| 28 | He had treated her exactly as he 'd said he would , and not even for an instant had Kate had even a bat 's twinkling that he thought of her as an attractive woman . |
| 29 | She was roused from this disturbing fantasy by the arrival on the table in front of her of an Italian youth who was trying to escape the clutches of two boisterous female companions . |
| 30 | As she passed through the gate , to walk beside the stream , Bob Lamb caught sight of her from the other bank of the beck . |