Example sentences of "[noun] her [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It seemed , at that moment , to distress her above all others .
2 It took the jury almost five hours to reach a majority verdict and acquit her on all three charges .
3 ‘ Aye , ’ I nodded slowly , hoping to content her with this , then looked away and up to one side as though I had just found something very interesting and important to look at on the ceiling .
4 The obvious thing to do with such an important heiress was to betroth her to one of his sons and the fact that he chose his third son , Geoffrey , shows that Richard was still marked out as the future Duke of Aquitaine .
5 What he had just done was sentence her to another day of hell .
6 It was n't fair , not a bit , the way he could side-step and outmanoeuvre her with such ease .
7 Charles asked patiently , determined to humour her through this crazy new idea .
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