Example sentences of "[vb past] her [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Constance visited some suffragettes imprisoned in Holloway gaol , and this experience transformed her into a public figure with a single-minded burning cause . |
| 2 | She giggled when his second attempt ended in the same way , and when he grasped her in a great bear hug , she was able to slip away as easily as if it were a child holding her . |
| 3 | There was a time , early in their days at Cambridge , when a brilliant and handsome research student from Yale made a determined pitch for Robyn , and she had been rather dazzled and excited by the experience ( he wooed her with a heady mixture of the latest post Freudian theoretical jargon and devastatingly frank sexual propositions , so she was never quite sure whether it was Lacan 's symbolic phallus he was referring to or his own real one ) . |
| 4 | Lucenzo ruthlessly hurried the shaken Meredith through a small door , to the sound of indulgent ribaldry , and drew her into a small salotto . |
| 5 | I drew her into a shadowy window embrasure . |
| 6 | A legacy from a great-aunt had bought their house and provided her with a small income . |
| 7 | In January 1990 the Education Department provided her with a new tutor . |
| 8 | Without a word , Lucenzo offered her a jug of coffee and flicked a quick finger at the alert barman , who provided her with a fresh cup . |
| 9 | Her instructor , Sally Sheffield , described her as a competent first-aider who did not panic . |
| 10 | He fixed her with a cool stare . |
| 11 | He fixed her with a bloodshot eye . |
| 12 | He fixed her with a glittering eye . |
| 13 | He fixed her in a maddened stare and she saw the blood running from his gashed hand . |
| 14 | He found her in a small kitchen . |
| 15 | I found her in a large day-room where groups of elderly ladies sat in plastic-covered armchairs . |
| 16 | The baby weighed less than one kilo , she took it to the clinic and a clinic worker helped her to a nearby hospital . |
| 17 | ‘ I helped her through a bad time , you see . |
| 18 | Clare helped her into a black car that stood by the kerb with its door open . |
| 19 | Colleague Evelyn Cookson and a stranger hoisted Tammy to her feet and helped her into a waiting ambulance . |
| 20 | He helped her in a two-year battle against cancer and to come to terms with her double mastectomy . |
| 21 | Already involved with her longstanding boyfriend Neil Turley , Jenny declined his advances , but undaunted , fearless Frank phoned her on a regular basis and left messages with her unsuspecting boyfriend , a West Ham fan who was flattered that the team 's top scorer was training so late at night . |
| 22 | His eyes were ice-bright , and pierced her like twin blades as he regarded her for a long moment . |
| 23 | Doreen regarded her with a concentrated stare that attempted to pierce her mind . |
| 24 | Dorothy regarded her with a great love and tenderness . |
| 25 | They became lovers , but Valerie did n't know that Sanquest regarded her as a mere plaything — someone he could have a little fun with ; someone he could display before his friends as his latest conquest . |
| 26 | Eventually he released her with what appeared to be reluctance , which was strange , she thought , because she would have expected a man with his inhibitions about women to have just brushed her mouth briefly and then dropped her like a glowing ember . |
| 27 | the pretty girl victim … four months after The Fox subjected her to a three-hour sex ordeal — and forced her brother and her boyfriend at gunpoint to perform degrading acts with her — the girl crawled into an airing cupboard in a bid to shut out the memories . |
| 28 | The jury at Oxford Crown Court found the married father of two guilty after hearing that he 'd tied the woman 's hands hands behind her back in the city 's New Road and subjected her to a terrifying ordeal , during which she 'd feared for her life . |
| 29 | Desmond subjected her to a spectacular hug . |
| 30 | A YOUTH of 15 who broke into a young mother 's house in the middle of the night and subjected her to a two-hour rape ordeal while her children slept was yesterday given a life sentence . |