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

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1 The man sitting opposite her looked shifty , but she could see from the set of his jaw that he 'd no intention of telling her his suspicions .
2 Nell was sitting alone at a table in the dining car working on her interminable lists ( those usually clipped to the clipboard ) and I sat down opposite her feeling ashamed of myself .
3 Ken 's equally eccentric behaviour towards her became evident early on in the out-of-town try-outs in Brighton , Liverpool and Oxford .
4 In part , this was a consequence of her appointing some ministers who were sceptical of her economic strategy .
5 The young woman seemed to know what she was talking about , and Shelley suddenly felt sorry for her , in spite of her flashing Spanish beauty .
6 During their subsequent separation and his long sojourn in an English prison , where he is saved from the gallows only by a last-minute reprieve , his vision of her becomes intense and idealised .
7 They did n't like the idea of her taking this trip .
8 His memory of her became dulled and blocked , a stalemate of the imagination that began to have the taste of sloth and suicide , like the evil torpor that can ensue from spending night after night without a dream .
9 How naïve of her to let Roman de Sciorto 's powerful charm override her normal caution !
10 It was unjust of her to disregard those thumb-sucking years in which Lily had held her close .
11 It was wicked of her to take all the love without paying for it .
12 In Cork her religious enthusiasm and the power of her preaching alarmed friends .
13 Within seconds of her uttering those words , 11-year-old Allibar reared its head back and collapsed to the ground with a massive coronary .
14 Judy was throwing a ball to Mandy Maddison , who was learning to catch a ball with the left hand as part of her Keep Fit Challenge .
15 Every part of her felt open to him , wanting him , needing the fulfilment only he could give .
16 He suddenly remembered writing cheery lewd limericks with her on a train to Yugoslavia , and worrying about the possibility of her getting pregnant there with the child he longed for , bothering about the bad doctors and the heat .
17 ‘ There was no question of her getting preferential treatment because she is the Secretary of State 's mother .
18 She felt certain then that whether Naylor called her back to the new extension to tell her to deny that she was engaged to him or not , she would without fail , before five o'clock that day , be summoned to account for Travis 's unexpected easy acceptance of her getting engaged to someone else .
19 That 's very nice of her to write that .
20 This was one aspect of her following human emotions where they took her , into many depths and intensities , that has yet hardly had a place in a novel .
21 In front of her stood twelve women .
22 He titillated himself with thoughts of her applying that cruelty to him .
23 ‘ Would you rather wait for the other ladies ? ’ he ventured , obviously torn between his duty and the thought of her sitting alone in such rowdy company for several minutes .
24 It was nice to know he felt good about her being here but she wanted more than that — but how selfish of her to expect any more .
25 It is not recommended to exercise her in this condition , because of the unwelcomed attention she will receive , and the risk of her becoming pregnant .
26 But a small part of her cried that Ace seemed to have lost all sense of kindness and decency as far as she was concerned .
27 LITTLE Laura Davies , who is critically ill following rejection of her transplanted small intestine , was last night facing a massive new operation , to replace her entire digestive system .
28 Marriage had effectively put paid to her career as an actress , and between household tasks she busied herself penning articles protesting at the pressures on people like her to cook beautiful meals and write novels like Margaret Drabble .
29 For she was pleased , just as she always was when people pointed out how much she looked like her adored older brother .
30 Not like her to do that .
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