Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She followed him up the room , repeating her sympathy and when that did not hold his attention , she began to apologize for her lateness in coming to speak to him about the tragedy . |
| 2 | It seemed that Cathy had a lot to lose through her uncle 's death . |
| 3 | Had he heard about her romance with Ian White , the junior registrar ? |
| 4 | And she knew herself to look better , clad in what passed for finery these days , than she did in the house where with so much work to do she had not a moment to spare for her appearance . |
| 5 | Pepita set down among the crates to wait for her friend and the rum to reach her . |
| 6 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
| 7 | His kiss was leisurely as if they had all the time in the world to explore each other , and he could afford to wait for her response , confident in his own powers of arousing it . |
| 8 | to wait for her midwifery to come through and then er they 've closed that |
| 9 | Equally , Penny remains on one level as a deluded fantasist who believes , very like an Iranian woman , that a wife 's duty is to wait for her husband 's return from the wars . |
| 10 | It sounded like a question , but he had never intended to wait for her answer . |
| 11 | Then , without bothering to wait for her answer , he had swung round again and was heading imperiously for the group of gold-brocade-covered armchairs that stood in the curve of the huge bay window , overlooking the sun-burnished waters of Loch Lomond . |
| 12 | He had fantasized about her death almost as much as he had fantasized about Elinor 's . |
| 13 | Despite her weightiness , Mrs Beavis got about her house like a two-year-old . |
| 14 | She shook her head to rearrange her disarrayed hair ; the golden tresses tumbling about her face and shoulders in glorious abandon made her look doubly desirable . |
| 15 | The other woman shook her head bemusedly , sending her tousled red curls tumbling about her face . |
| 16 | Rory shook her head , sending her long wheat-coloured curls tumbling about her face . |
| 17 | The qualities which make a girl smart and successful at her work would similarly make for her success in the marriage market . " |
| 18 | The more the questions tumbled through her brain , the more confused she became . |
| 19 | I 'M HERE , BOSS : Bryan 's assistant Julia goes about her work yesterday |
| 20 | Because the primary nurse can not personally be on duty to give care throughout that time , arrangements must be made for care to continue during her absence . |
| 21 | Not only do her efforts to assert her freedom from male domination lead her into the hands of another man , but she is also punished for her resistance by having her words deemed valueless , just as today ‘ pseudo-escaperoutes will so lightly turn sado-escape , and … women 's very freedom will so easily be used against them by even moderately clever men ’ ( 12 ) . |
| 22 | After hearing the two women for a while , Mayor John Church summoned the Looe town constable , at which each woman presumed the other was to be suitably punished for her infamy . |
| 23 | Next day the father ( the patient 's husband ) applied for her discharge . |
| 24 | Reluctantly , Scottie had to be left in kennels in Ostend while her family applied for her entry papers in England . |
| 25 | He cared about her pleasure and she responded to him more strongly than she had with anyone . |
| 26 | For though the thought of making love with either Giles or Clive made her cringe in distaste , imagining Nathan Bryce 's arms around her , his mouth plundering hers as he moulded her against his powerful , hard-muscled length , sent hot sweet sensation lancing through her body . |
| 27 | A large woman who is not apologising for her size is certainly not a figure to invite the dominant meanings which our culture attaches to femininity . |
| 28 | ‘ The cow grows hoarse , weeping for her calf … . ’ |
| 29 | Helen let out a wail and plunged for her doll . |
| 30 | Her hat lay beside her and she found that her piled-up fair hair had been released and had fallen about her face . |