Example sentences of "[prep] her [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She watched as he sat opposite her on the worn old sofa and proceeded to pour the brandy into the glasses . |
| 2 | But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years . |
| 3 | Pebbles had to snatch up briefly to avoid scrimmaging in front of her on the tight final bend , and for a second it looked as though she might be shut in . |
| 4 | Julia tried to obey , as she tried to do everything he demanded of her over the next few days and as she tried to keep her misery and pain and fear from all of them . |
| 5 | The sight of her in the old tatty jumpers she slept in always brought him back to reality . |
| 6 | He had grown fond of her in the last few days . |
| 7 | ‘ I just called by to give Guy a message from my father , ’ the blonde was murmuring , glancing behind her at the half-open front door , then smiling at Virginia with such patent insincerity that she 'd have laughed if she had n't felt like crying her heart out instead … |
| 8 | ‘ Well , anyway , ’ Lisabeth went on grumpily , ‘ she did ring and she wants you to get in touch with her at the local National Insurance office . |
| 9 | Modigliani moved in to be with her for the last few days and at the end of November Jeanne entered the Nice Maternity Hospital . |
| 10 | Francie grinned , and joined in with her after the first few phrases . |
| 11 | He had sat with her in the long dark evenings , had made sure she ate at mealtimes . |
| 12 | But what made her feel even guiltier was the simple fact that , somehow , no matter how hard she tried , she could n't imagine Arnie lying with her in the big blue bed . |
| 13 | Cleo staggered back from the loving assault being bestowed upon her by the two larger animals . |
| 14 | He took out a large photograph and placed it on her knee , taking her cup from her with the same effortless movement . |
| 15 | She had to keep her wits about her in the next few minutes . |
| 16 | Baroness Thatcher too is an Oxford graduate , but when moves were made to confer an honorary degree on her in the nineteen eighties , she was turned down by the same people , amid stormy controversy . |
| 17 | She had never responded to his embarrassing invitation , made to her during the permissive sixties , to use ‘ Haverford ’ , his Christian name . |
| 18 | In the build up to her first ever world tour , the now seasoned campaigner decided it was time to kill the cutesy girl-next-door and reflect the reality of what had happened to her over the previous two years . |
| 19 | Referrals by GPs where outcome was informal admission were consistently characterized by familial disruption : indeed only two of these cases were referred where the woman 's behaviour drew attention to her in the wider social environment outside the family . |
| 20 | Friends have been of paramount importance to her in the last ten years and she has not deserted them . |
| 21 | Once again she wished she understood what had happened to her in the last three months . |
| 22 | His words , in that elusively caressing accent , floated to her in the quiet little office . |
| 23 | She is now in Towers Hospital , Leicester , where a spokesman said they expected the family to break the news to her in the next few days . |
| 24 | Travis had raised himself out of his despair to quip that she and his cousin both worked for the same firm , but the message that had come across to her from the dark steely look of Naylor Massingham was that that might be true now , but , since she had chosen not to heed his warning , one of them would not be working for the same firm for very much longer ! |
| 25 | He smiled almost gently , but there was nothing gentle about the glitter in his dark eyes as they ran over her from the smooth shining coil of her silver-blonde hair to the long slender legs encased in elegant sheer navy stockings . |
| 26 | The somebody bent down , peering at her in the gloomy first light . |
| 27 | Then she looked around her at the other smiling faces , and remembered why the policemen were there . |