Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] her [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fenella looked over her shoulder at them and saw that they were looking at her with such blind trust and with such faith that cold anger rose in her at the evil Lord who had forced them to his work . |
| 2 | When he proposed to her on the last night I think she took him because , having been in her room for seven days , she 'd met nobody else and could n't bear to see her investment wasted . ’ |
| 3 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 4 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 5 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 6 | Nothing came for her by the first post . |
| 7 | Four times a day the nurse came towards her across the wide spaces of lino with the shiny basin containing the rattling metal syringe . |
| 8 | Before the side-car receded from her along the straight avenue , she observed a gun case ( sometimes Anderson shot the bogs with Dada ) , a rod case , and a bulging Gladstone bag tied together in the space ( called the well ) situated between the opposite wings of the sidecar . |
| 9 | Something twisted inside her at the naked emotion that flashed for a moment across his face . |
| 10 | Almost always she answered ‘ yes ’ because she had come to prefer lying still , with his soft sleeping body behind her , breathing the night air scented with pine wood and wild thyme as it came to her through the open shutters , and listening to the faraway ululation of the Borzoi dog chained beneath the walls of the Castello Crocetto . |
| 11 | Voices from the breakfast table came to her through the open window . |
| 12 | A picture came to her of the shaggy wanderers huddling together in the bus shelter at the top of the road where she had been born and bred . |
| 13 | The secret language , the underground stream that forced through her like a river , that rose and danced inside her like the pulling jet of a fountain , that wetted her face and hands like fine spray , that joined her back to what she had lost , to something she had once intimately known , that she could hardly believe would always be there as it was now , which waited for her and called her by her name . |
| 14 | ‘ We are at the bedside of the girl and are now starting to piece together what happened to her in the six hours she was in the hands of this maniac . |
| 15 | The Inspector turned to her for the first time , but if he was cheered by her observation he gave no sign of his approval . |
| 16 | She was not surprised when the girl turned to her with the dark remark , ‘ I wish he had n't come in just then . ’ |
| 17 | He made no attempt to detain her , but walked with her down the dark drive and took her as far as her own front door . |
| 18 | When they 'd covered more or less everything and it was time for her to go , Angelica walked with her to the main door . |
| 19 | It dawned on her for the first time that perhaps the other woman had married for money . |
| 20 | Well she she told me that your M E type symptoms had got a lot worse and I said that 's we had at That 's what I chatted with her about the other day but |
| 21 | Rosen was introduced to Katharine Hamnett by John May , a Face journalist who worked with her on the ill-fated Tomorrow , a magazine that was to be , bravely , ‘ a mix of fashion and politics ’ . |
| 22 | That was in fact the private view of Harold Nicolson , although he did not allow it to be expressed in his official biography of George V. In an unpublished section of his diaries , he writes of his interview with Queen Mary on 21 March 1949 , ‘ I talked to her about the 1931 crisis and said that I was convinced the King had been a determinant influence on that occasion , ‘ Yes certainly ; he certainly was , ' |
| 23 | Carrie looked about her at the crackling fire and a fair semblance of tidiness in the kitchen . |
| 24 | ‘ Kerry was in front of me at the start and I went past her on the second mile , ’ she said . |
| 25 | Corbett stared past her at the timbered house . |
| 26 | Julia tried to obey , as she tried to do everything he demanded of her over the next few days and as she tried to keep her misery and pain and fear from all of them . |
| 27 | ‘ Now th'can go out , ’ he said and went with her into the shadow-filled yard ; one long arm guiding her with relentless force past the lighted windows of the inn , past the well and a small cart , past James Lambert walking shakily towards the back door of the inn , to a dark corner behind a group of empty ale kegs . |
| 28 | Blanche looked round her at the wallpapered walls and the flounced pink curtains and said , ‘ How very nice . |
| 29 | She looked round her at the luxurious suite and shuddered . |
| 30 | He stared at her through the flickering shadows . |