Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] her [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a light silhouetted her against the wall . |
| 2 | She was still deep in thought when the sound of a car drew her to the window . |
| 3 | A constable led her along the corridor past fluttering notices and an electric clock that had stopped . |
| 4 | She had also found herself a sponsor to support her to the tune of £100 a year . |
| 5 | A waiter led her to the table she 'd booked downstairs , and left her to study the menu . |
| 6 | A head collar was eventually put on her in the chute , and when she threw her head up in anxiety a roustabout hit her on the face with a lump of wood ‘ for being so stupid ! ’ |
| 7 | Amaranth descended alone at twelve-thirty , pink and pampered , and called a cab to take her to the Black Chapati in Circus Parade . |
| 8 | The pair were quizzed over the abduction of a woman who underwent a terrifying 15-hour ordeal after calling a cab to collect her from a pub . |
| 9 | She told Anne that the man , Ronald , had sent a taxi to take her to the dance and had bought her a casket of chocolates as they went in , but she had felt uneasy several times during the evening . |
| 10 | GUNMEN killed an Irish nurse yesterday when they attacked a convoy taking her to a new assignment in Baidoa , a Somali towns at the centre of the famine region . |
| 11 | By now Kelly needed extensive physiotheraphy several times a day to rid her of the excess mucus that clogged her lungs . |
| 12 | A friend treated her to a pukkah drinks-dispensing butler who asked if he might make a personal remark before teetering off into the small hours . |
| 13 | Shortly after moving into The Kilns , Minto had engaged a gardener to help her with the eight acres of ground . |
| 14 | Therry Buleita spent a whole night in this position ; each time her head dropped , a policeman kicked her in the face . |
| 15 | Zoe 's horse ’ Scrumpy ’ stumbled after a jump catapulting her into the ground . |
| 16 | Actress Helena Bonham Carter is the latest victim of obsession , she is asking a court to protect her from a fan who is making her life a misery . |
| 17 | THE actress Helena Bonham Carter is asking a court to protect her from an obsessive fan who is making her life a misery . |
| 18 | Her husband , John Pennington , of Southport , Merseyside , was jailed for 15 years in June for hiring a hitman to kill her for the £300,000 insurance . |
| 19 | Jeanne Rynhart , who immortalised the Dublin heroine in a sculpture depicting her as a 17th Century prostitute , said Molly would always live in the city 's folk memory . |
| 20 | A woman put her in a car and drove away and I did n't see Shelly again . |
| 21 | She remembered dinner , then dancing with Jack Butler , Annie saying something to her , a nun taking her by the arm . |
| 22 | A finger jabbed her between the shoulder blades . |
| 23 | Detectives say a man followed her into the toilets and raped her . |
| 24 | After a long session trying on clothes , she was walking out with her purchases when a man tapped her on the shoulder and asked her to go back into the shop . |
| 25 | A man dragged her into an alleyway , and attacked her in a nearby churchyard . |
| 26 | The teenager was walking through the grounds of Hospital yesterday evening , when a man pulled her to the ground and threatened her . |
| 27 | Police have praised the courage of a shop asssitant who tackled a man threatening her with a knife . |
| 28 | Managers found it impossible to maintain discipline : if a girl found a man to keep her for a while , she would ‘ scarper ’ ( disappear ) . |
| 29 | In 1989 , the wife of the " Yorkshire Ripper " was awarded £600,000 by a jury to compensate her for a false story in " Private Eye " , published eight years previously , to the effect that she had been prepared to sell her story to newspapers . |
| 30 | ‘ I made a mistake casting her in the part and I felt very badly about it , ’ was all Warren Beatty would say . |