Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] her [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I am fondling her like a memory , in the way you stroke a cat : knowing it 's there , glad it 's purring , but letting thoughts wander like your fingers tickling the fur . |
2 | After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . |
3 | He thinks that I am selling her for the night . |
4 | ‘ No , I 'm taking her to the doctor 's . ’ |
5 | I 'd gone across to the old folks ' home to have a chat with Maureen and , inevitably , I was telling her about the trouble I was having . |
6 | So do I and I was just talking to her downstairs and I was asking her like the differences between here and the States , you know the boar cos she was in a boarding school before , and she was saying erm how you know just generally the people are nicer and the blokes talk to you not just because you 're cos they |
7 | You 're burying her in the wrong grave . ’ |
8 | ‘ Luce is fond of you and she does n't want to hurt you , but you 're putting her in an impossible situation by your pig-headedness . |
9 | And it would be nice if you were to provide her with a little brother or sister . ’ |
10 | ‘ She 's turned her into a proper little snob ! ’ |
11 | One of them was that the nurse , robbed of her pleasure in subduing the hair , turned her savagery more directly on to Harriet and once in a temper broke both of her charge 's thumbs when she was forcing her into a new pair of white kid gloves for Sunday School . |
12 | Mrs Brooks ' dog was almost run over recently as she was putting her into the car . |
13 | Now they are taking her to the High Court . |
14 | ‘ They 're putting her in a cage so that people can see her . |
15 | And they 're doing her for a road traffic accident at Morrow Road when Simon the bike . |
16 | She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut . |
17 | And then when they were taking her in the ambulance , the nerves , I was sitting fucking laughing |
18 | Poor Mrs got two lots of children and they were driving her up the wall ! |
19 | The one time they were encouraged to sit her on a chair , after she had scratched her sister , both parents moved over to her and fussed her , talking and explaining to her why they were putting her on the chair . |
20 | He is seeing her off the premises at this minute . ’ |
21 | Mrs Lydan 's husband Bill died last year but she 'd kept dozens of stones , and pieces of jewellery which he 's given her over the years . |
22 | and for a treat he 's taking her to the , er nostalgic weekend at |
23 | he 's left her in the car . |
24 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
25 | And you know she treasures it because it was given her by a grateful patient centuries ago . |
26 | He told us what sport it was to take her to the ‘ Houtsize ‘ 0use ’ in London , first putting her on the Inner Circle , getting off smartly himself , and leaving her to go round and round until his amusement wore off . |
27 | When she looked back at Petion , she saw that he was watching her with a sympathetic expression . |
28 | He was watching her with a glint of amusement in those remarkable eyes . |
29 | His voice was low , and she glanced up and saw that he was watching her with a strange kind of intensity . |
30 | With a puzzled lift of her head she found he was watching her with a faraway expression in his eyes . |