Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] her [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilful and wasteful of such innocent , joyful music , Mordkovitch wrenched at the tempi , disregarded the dynamics and , showing a wanton unfeelingness for the orchestra 's commendable attempts to accommodate her in a notey accompaniment , trailed Yuasa reeling in her wake . |
| 2 | Influenced by these dreams , beautiful mornings seemed to mock her waking despair , but once she had shaken herself free from their shades , sun , sky , trees and birds enveloped her like a benediction . |
| 3 | His deep eyes regarded her for a moment , then he looked at Rory . |
| 4 | Small animals used her as a shelter , burrowing into her rotting bowels . |
| 5 | His eyes surveyed her for a moment . |
| 6 | The casual cruelty of his words cut her like a knife . |
| 7 | Urquhart 's dark shining eyes followed her with a dog 's devotion ; evidently she had qualities other than beauty . |
| 8 | His words hit her like a battering-ram , making her knees buckle beneath her . |
| 9 | The dark eyes fixed her for a moment . |
| 10 | Her legs brought her to a halt in front of a glass case containing a Leeds dinner-service . |
| 11 | She was of course aware that she came from a Catholic to a barely Protestant country in a state of intense flux and religious upheaval ; her new subjects presented her with a set of pressing confessional and political problems . |
| 12 | But as her parents took her for a swim , she collapsed without warning and died . |
| 13 | An inscription in the Bodleian copy of her Poems describes her as a widow . |
| 14 | I remember when she took us to the pantomime in town , and we saved up all our sweets for three weeks to give her as a present . |
| 15 | Only the reflective coating of her suit had prevented the enemy weapons identifying her as a target . |
| 16 | She asked the powers to make her into a Stone as well but this was not granted . |
| 17 | She yanked her seatbelt free then gave a squeak of protest as Penry pulled her into his arms to kiss her with a ferocity she fought against at first . |
| 18 | ‘ If you are referring to Mrs. Channing , you 've given me no instructions to regard her as a client . ’ |
| 19 | The medical report shown to the court from the King 's Lynn Health Authority on the girl 's mental faculties assessed her on a variety of indicators , including mental arithmetic , reading ages , concepts , and spelling . |
| 20 | The thoughts provided her with a refuge from Sylvie . |
| 21 | Neil Kinnock and others pressed her for a while about Nigel Lawson 's resignation . |
| 22 | She knows that by virtue of her position many women see her as a role model and so is happy to give advice when asked for it . |
| 23 | His long fingers held her in a grip that Isabel knew she could not escape without hurting herself — and probably not even then . |
| 24 | Cross-references led her to a file containing hundreds of individual dossiers . |
| 25 | She was working as a petrol station cashier when armed robbers threatened her with a knife during a raid . |