Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] her [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was so impressed she apparently forgot about her appointment with Mrs Major , who was waiting patiently in the Savoy powder room . |
| 2 | Over the next few hours , she thought she was succeeding in calming herself , but the superficial serenity proved fragile , shattering when she got home and found Luke comfortably ensconced in her lounge with a newspaper and some overtly erotic instrumental music playing softly in the background . |
| 3 | Releasing a pent-up breath , only then did she realise that she was actually physically tingling from her encounter with the man who had called to collect Travis . |
| 4 | She had been out with her boy friend on one occasion and her parents had tried to be more accepting of her relationship with him . |
| 5 | Elinor was silent as she allowed herself to see , for once , the soft and gentle cobweb of romance she had carefully woven around her life with Billy . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not a traitor , ’ she protested huskily , roughly swiping at her face with her sleeve . |
| 7 | Her own nerves were stretched to breaking-point and she could n't allow herself even to contemplate the changes that would now come in her relationship with David ; that luxury would come later , because for the moment lives were in danger . |
| 8 | A scatter of miners ran past her , one even stepping on her hand with a pain that burned sharply on her half-frozen fingers . |
| 9 | If the finger had not been pointed , all the class would have known who was being called to face the fearsome sister , and when Millie stood by the side of the nun 's desk , the sheet of paper was immediately thrust into her face with the demand , ‘ What do you mean by that ? |
| 10 | When they are included , it is usually for the frisson connected with them as omens of mortality and transience , as in the poetry of melancholy : Clarissa , for example , is frequently threatened by her family with imprisonment in the moated house of her Uncle Anthony , if she does not agree to marriage with the odious Mr Solmes . |
| 11 | On 5 September 1981 , they captured two young boys , the son and the nephew of a woman who was very well known for her work with ASUTRAMES . |
| 12 | Leila Berg : — free-lance writer , editor , lecturer and broadcaster , well known for her work with children and in particular the urban child ; a member of one of Pat Keen 's classes . |
| 13 | Flavia Sherman smiled sympathetically at Chuck for a moment then turned to her husband with an ill-concealed sigh of exasperation . |
| 14 | The therapist pointed out to Liz that she seemed to be trying to get away from both the shop and the flat , and Liz then talked about her life with her boyfriend and that she felt she needed to start afresh . |
| 15 | If the world did not know her history , which was by no means certain , they at least knew of her liaison with Benedict . |
| 16 | Loretta was about to protest at this arrangement — she had not yet recovered from her irritation with Geoffrey — but decided it would be more diplomatic to follow Bridget into the kitchen . |
| 17 | She never presumed on her friendship with Eve by expecting to be let in to the inner sanctum . |
| 18 | Karen never arrived at her meeting with Drew , Pete and the journalist from the New York Times . |
| 19 | He 'd certainly spoken of her appeal with convincing sincerity . |
| 20 | The difficulty was that the memory seemed to be inextricably linked to her friendship with Comfort . |
| 21 | The female is brightly coloured like her mate with whom she frequently pairs for life , but the sexes migrate separately to and from a moulting ground on the Heligoland Bight . |