Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] her [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two quick steps took her to the vacated table where she seized the bottle of aquavit , neatly topping up both glasses . |
| 2 | Despairing of ever finding any use for her , her parents sold her to the military , a callous practice common in the commercially minded years of the mid-twenty-fourth century . |
| 3 | At the chilly boarding-school to which her parents sent her in the mistaken belief that she would be less lonely among girls of her own age , the prizes for mathematics — a subject which she did n't particularly care for but which came easily to her — were framed reproductions of the works of Italian painters . |
| 4 | We talked a little till her cries took her into the little theatre . |
| 5 | Blood tests revealed Louise 's haemoglobin level was down and doctors referred her to the local hospital . |
| 6 | So now Maggie was not afraid of the dark , even though the great windows exposed her to the full moon and turned her own skin white and pearly — a reflection of reflected light . |
| 7 | Strong hands lifted her from the rocking horse , and sat her on the table . |
| 8 | Jesus Delporto 's dying scream had followed Ace all the way to the lower moon , down the violently oscillating length of the Bridge , past bizarre machinery which seethed with naked power , and through the gap she had torched in the base of the column ; it followed her as eager hands pulled her from the writhing Bridge , stripped away her suit and placed her with the others in the medical unit ; followed her into sleep , forced a path into her dreams , drove her screaming and unrested into wakefulness . |
| 9 | Two half-run strides took her to the only way out : the lift . |
| 10 | She had no trouble in registering with a secretarial agency , and a variety of jobs carried her through the long , drab days . |