Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] her [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to be the only real thing in the universe ; the temple , the city , the motorspeeder , all of these were illusions devised to distract her from the important issues , the real business of life . |
| 2 | After the series of treaties in 1854 – 58 which helped to launch her on a rapid and irreversible process of change it could even still be questioned whether full-scale diplomatic representation there was worth what it cost . |
| 3 | One day , as I tried to serve her on the quiet , two deep meaningful coughs from behind me raised the small hairs on my neck . |
| 4 | The crew tried to sail her through a narrow gap at a bridge in Purton . |
| 5 | For a bit , she tried to turn Yeats into a warrior , and he tried to turn her into a high priestess of the Celtic mysteries — and thus , of course , into a ‘ moderate ’ . |
| 6 | Dr Rossdale said he tried to wean her off the sleeping tablets . |
| 7 | Cati went in to Rosa , who lay gripping the down coverlet , to cram it into her face and muffle her sobs ; she climbed up next to her , and stroked her head , and tried to cradle her with a thin arm across her shaking shoulders and felt herself going dry in her throat and choked up too ; Rosa twisted , her red face glowered up at Cati . |
| 8 | She is pictured with boyfriend , operations supervisor at the computer centre , who invited to join her on the two-day trip . |
| 9 | I tried to tell her about the horrible man on the doorstep but she would n't listen . |
| 10 | ‘ I tried to tell her in a matter-of-fact way that when you die you leave your body behind and go to Heaven . |
| 11 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 12 | She 'd thrown herself at him , and then when she 'd panicked he 'd dropped her like a hot potato … what a fool she 'd been ! |
| 13 | I 'd met her at the odd party where we 'd chatted and that 's about it . ’ |
| 14 | He 'd helped her through a bad patch and she 'd been grateful , but she 'd never really considered him in any other light . |
| 15 | Times I 'd lie in my bed , late at night , and shudder to think my Jake 'd wedded her in a Christian church . ’ |
| 16 | The house seemed to watch her with a calculating eye . |
| 17 | At last he unlocked a heavily carved door , and after a moment Meredith saw that he 'd led her into a large office with plaster frescos and a glorious ceiling of painted angels hung with gilded chandeliers . |
| 18 | The next day she 'd discovered his whereabouts from Klein , who 'd warned her in no uncertain manner that John Zacharias was bad news for tender hearts . |
| 19 | Her palette of evocative earth and sea tones also seemed to link her to an English landscape tradition , and her work was included in a group show at the Serpentine Gallery in 1984 entitled Landscape , Memory and Desire . |
| 20 | His touch seemed to burn her through the thin cotton of her white blouse . |
| 21 | Arguably , Nathalie Sarraute 's career benefited enormously from Sartre 's famous preface to her first novel , Portrait d'un inconnu ( 1947 ) , which he claimed placed her in the alternative tradition of the ‘ anti-roman ’ . |
| 22 | At the war 's end , charity assembled to comfort her for a brief moment and whilst wishing her long life , nevertheless dispersed and never reassembled . |
| 23 | Charles took to Diana that weekend and began seeing her on a regular basis when they returned to London . |
| 24 | Gently , he began to massage her with a greasy perfumed oil . |
| 25 | I arranged to meet her in the tiny port at Tala-Tala where she was waiting for me . |
| 26 | He kept her prisoner in her own home and threatened to electrocute her on a sunbed and burn her with an iron . |
| 27 | The cat began to stalk her through the blade-broad iris leaves with such solemnity that she laughed and paused even longer , to play with him , and was cheered . |
| 28 | For Laura , work had now become an end in itself ; although some of her colleagues began to describe her as a workaholic it was more that she found working a pleasurable state . |
| 29 | As the sow came at him he allowed her to run her head into the bin then , bent double , he began to back her towards the open door . |
| 30 | In 1925 the ship was bought by a Glasgow shipowner who planned to convert her to a nautical museum . |