Example sentences of "[vb pp] her [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her fiancé has now reported her as a missing person , I believe . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Giles Hawick is taking it seriously enough to have reported her as a missing person , ’ he said tightly . |
| 3 | By an effort of memory she could just recall a time when money had been plentiful , and her father — then strong and well — had spent it with a gay extravagance which had delighted her as a small child . |
| 4 | Mrs Nowak had impressed her as a strong woman , a woman inclined to fantasy perhaps , but resilient and not inclined to despair . |
| 5 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 6 | As soon as she reached the club , as soon as she was back in the public eye , she would have to switch on the false persona that had carried her through the past week . |
| 7 | Yet he had pursued her with a single-minded intent that was unnerving . |
| 8 | Thomas was sure the other androids would have rescued her from the burning ship but , discovering she was not part of their mission , would then have executed her . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Somehow — it did not seem diplomatic to enquire too deeply just how — he had missed her at the arranged spot . |
| 12 | It had prepared her for the coming meeting when she would be alone at last with the youth who was King of England ; the youth she loved … |
| 13 | But nothing had prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh , says Morton . |
| 14 | But nothing had prepared her for the monumental size and sheer glamour of the building . |
| 15 | She was a walking weapon already , but Seth had only made her into a rough flint axe . |
| 16 | Double world light-middleweight champion , Diane Bell , showed no sign of the back injury that had sidelined her for the past month . |
| 17 | I 'd met her at the odd party where we 'd chatted and that 's about it . ’ |
| 18 | Oh here 's another dog I think oh it 's Judy 's , not it 's not hello , have n't seen you for a long time , hello , have n't seen her for a long time , morning , good morning oh she 's a sweetie is n't she ? forgotten her name come and say hello , I have n't seen you for ages , so him once on the , good morning . |
| 19 | I 'd never seen her without a single string of pearls , which she fingered constantly . |
| 20 | Physically , she was looking better than Harriet had seen her in a long while . |
| 21 | Her limbs were graceful , her whole body proportioned like that of a young goddess ; as for her breasts , an infatuated young man who had seen her in a small part at Robert 's Shield Theatre wrote her a letter quoting the Song of Solomon at length : Asshe threatened to horsewhip him . |
| 22 | It was the first time I had seen her in a pale colour — a light grey dress which made her seem shadowy . |
| 23 | An MTB had whisked her to a waiting submarine , and her second assignment had begun . |
| 24 | The path to salvation is eventually shown her by the unwitting Messiah figure Hussein , an East African poet who speaks in metaphors and proverbs . |
| 25 | But if Urquhart were speaking the truth at last — and she wondered whether yet another web of deception was being woven about her — he had forged her into an unwitting tool of the Soviet Union . |
| 26 | Miguel had really entrusted her with a great secret . |
| 27 | He 'd helped her through a bad patch and she 'd been grateful , but she 'd never really considered him in any other light . |
| 28 | She made an effort to recall all he had told her during the previous ride , and paid attention to the way she sat , as well as to the positions of her hands , elbows , knees and heels . |
| 29 | One thing is certain : if Abraham has not told her of the divine command , then even her worst fears will not allow her to guess what is afoot . |
| 30 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |