Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] her [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made her to me , a mere new boy , a prefect . |
| 2 | That stopped her in her tracks . |
| 3 | Some rattled on the glass , some got her in the face , some spurted into the room . |
| 4 | This led her to the alarming conclusion that it was not they who were bigger , but she who was smaller — and a lot smaller . |
| 5 | This led her into masterpieces like Gilda and The Lady from Shanghai , plus a fistful of failed marriages . |
| 6 | This provided her with the ideal opportunity to research and write a book about the local food , which resulted in the publication of The Taste of Cyprus ( Interworld Publications , £5.95 ) , an enjoyable look at seasonal Cypriot cooking . |
| 7 | This provided her with some seeds and a loan to buy a goat . |
| 8 | This led to the development officer having to assume such a role herself , and occasionally this involved her in more work than she felt she could easily provide . |
| 9 | Another showed her on top of a mantelpiece with Lord Byron 's bust tucked cosily between her legs . |
| 10 | The man half carried , half pulled her into a nearby pub , where he propped her in a Windsor chair and went to fetch water from the bar . |
| 11 | This kept her in Scotland cut off from the son of her first marriage and the daughter of the second in France , both of whom she clearly loved . |
| 12 | This reminded her of the Colonel and his visit to the Somerset County Cricket ground , courtesy of Matthew Prescott and his mother . |
| 13 | This reminded her of a stately home . |
| 14 | This shot her into Hollywood 's Hall of Fame — the one girl who said ‘ No ’ to Warren Beatty . |
| 15 | This left her with a severe form of amnesia that reduced her memory span to 20 minutes or less . |
| 16 | That pleased her for some unknown reason . |
| 17 | It is significant that , in an age when belief in miracles , extreme saintliness and revelation were of the stuff of daily life , so many of her contemporaries believed Margery to be mentally ill ; only , probably , the superstitious , the credulous and the ignorant believed her to be a genuine mystic . |
| 18 | Sabine followed her to the shade of the veranda , and took the cushioned chair her hostess indicated . |
| 19 | That shook her to her heart ; she 'd known he was different from other men , but not this different . |
| 20 | These stood her in good stead as a borough councillor and labour organizer , but proved to be much less effective in national politics . |
| 21 | They all found her on the telephone to her boyfriend again . |
| 22 | The first day she went to that school , I remember , we all followed her up the road to the bus-stop , laughing at her . |
| 23 | They all treated her like a child . |
| 24 | ‘ Alice Muir , ’ he writes , ‘ was a homeopathist and in 1878 treated old Mrs McNeil at the Boathouse in Brodick so successfully that two years later the latter presented her with an engraved tumbler glass . ’ |
| 25 | Oh so long before John and I , but er , oh no they all had her under the thumb . |
| 26 | Now that she was too old to dance regularly she would understudy the Girls and they all recognized her as a marvellous dancer : |
| 27 | She did n't want to settle down , you see , and they all wanted her to . ’ |
| 28 | Never quite stationary , the mag-lev decanted her on a windy platform and whined away into the cavernous tunnel . |
| 29 | Surprised that he had even told anyone , let alone complimented her in her absence , Ellie looked at him in astonishment — which was a waste of time , because he had found something quite riveting to stare at in the fireplace . |
| 30 | Prosser , now a clear favourite to complete a maiden victory as a professional , had a slight hiccup when she found sand to lose a shot at the short second before birdies at the third and sixth carried her to the turn in 35 , one under . |