Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] her [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been the word " social " that created for her this image , a word judiciously expunged from later versions of the verse . |
| 2 | I bumped into her one evening when I was out fetching Dad twopenn'orth of twist . |
| 3 | Her train of thought stopped right there , and she sat up suddenly , as a number of things occurred to her all at once . |
| 4 | Last year she had come to his school for the first time , and every eye had turned to gape at her long red hair and golden earrings as she swept into the assembly-hall wearing one of her special dresses . |
| 5 | All of a sudden , the morning gathering at Mrs Tiverton 's had lost a little of its terror , for just at this instant it seemed less threatening than Mr Aycliffe 's serious face , demanding of her this fatal choice . |
| 6 | It is an Alto Duo , a kit car which Joy 's dad made for her some four years ago . |
| 7 | That night he took a midnight train to London , searched for her all day , and had his first demanding quarrel with her in a Chinese restaurant at five o'clock in the afternoon , blue-jowled with fear and tiredness , and smelling of the stale smells of travellers . |
| 8 | It seemed for her that space itself was now slowly constricting . |
| 9 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 10 | I 'll wait for her and walk with her all the way to Miss Lucchesi 's . |
| 11 | I suffered with her that evening , right through every moment , and when I went to bed at around midnight I could still hear her crying into her pillow — not a sound that sends a mother peacefully to sleep . |
| 12 | With a savage cry he drove into her one last time and felt the shockwaves pulse through him , draining all sensation and leaving a blessed numbness in which there was no more pain … |
| 13 | I saw her briefly , and , I did n't even speak to her other than to say hello . |
| 14 | When they reached her floor eventually , she bade him a perfunctory farewell and stepped out of the lift with a feeling of release , hurrying towards her apartment , heart and hormones defeating any intention of greeting Luke 's arrival as coolly as if it did n't matter to her one way or the other . |
| 15 | and cling to her all night as sheets … |
| 16 | 'Cos I says to her one day , well why do n't you ask yer , your relation , if he 'll er , if he 'll give yer a job . |
| 17 | I says to her that 's what I want , you know I want mine doing like that |
| 18 | The solution came to her one evening when Nahum commented on her excessive pallor . |
| 19 | They came to her one by one : Brendan , Shane , Rhett , Niall and Roger , and she was hugged and kissed by each in turn , so that her cheeks burned from the scrubbing of their coarse beards . |
| 20 | It came to her that being bewitched was like drowning , dark and easy . |
| 21 | ‘ You do n't have to listen to her any more , Gittel-plus-nine , ’ comes the breathless word from below the windows . |
| 22 | He would have liked to talk to her more about her husband , but he could n't really bring himself , not yet , to ask any more questions . |
| 23 | The question is are you actually interes , attracted to her enough to want to , you know what are you |
| 24 | But she had my Aegean Greece , which I hope said to her more what I should have wished to say . |
| 25 | What she was doing seemed to her all utterly natural . |
| 26 | The Earl had been shouting at her that morning , ‘ Have n't you gone yet ? |
| 27 | Perhaps she could convince him to stop looking at her that way — though , in her heart , she did not want to stop him . |
| 28 | She could n't speak , not with him looking at her that way . |
| 29 | Why was he looking at her that way ? |
| 30 | He was looking at her this time , directly into her eyes , and in the twilight she felt her pulses begin to race , and she thought , Oh , my God , I 'm really attracted to this man . |