Example sentences of "[vb pp] her [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead she 'd accepted his suggestion to show her more of the island of Zealand , and had been enchanted by everything , painfully aware that the spell which had entrapped her emanated from the powerful persona of the man beside her as much as the natural beauty of the surrounding countryside . |
| 2 | She reminded me that I was a married man — forbade me to approach her or speak to her again in that way , but at the same time I knew I had made her think about the old days — the attraction we 'd had for each other which she could not deny . |
| 3 | He had seen her sitting at the high table among the other ladies of noble birth who served the Empress . |
| 4 | She 'd already seen Il-Maltija , a country dance which Roman had told her began in the royal courts of the eighteenth century . |
| 5 | Also , he had kept her waiting at the Old Mitre and she would have preferred him to say everything then , or telephone now , rather than trail after her . |
| 6 | As Nathan got in beside her , the Customs officer who had questioned her slid into the front passenger-seat . |
| 7 | She was charming and gentle and life had not fitted her to cope with the forty assorted females now in her care . |