Example sentences of "[prep] her [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ahead of her the doors to the lounge were open . |
| 2 | Behind her the miners had wrenched the door open angrily . |
| 3 | Behind her the door-flaps clashed tiredly with the wind of someone 's movement in the common-room outside . |
| 4 | How does she think she 'll do with her A levels ? |
| 5 | A tiny part of her wanted to confront him with what he 'd done ; yet she knew she could n't do it , could n't bear looking into his sea-blue eyes , or at the lips which had kissed her so tenderly the night before , only to laugh with Marianne today as he shared with her the secrets Shannon had confided so trustingly — so blindly ! |
| 6 | There are thus adequate interpretations of the famous harbour and the sea wall , but it is Margaret Wiles who seems to have travelled farthest afield and lets us share with her the joys of a holiday in Greece with both watercolours and canvases of Lixouri , Kasiopi and Kephalonia . |
| 7 | This involves helping the patient develop alternative and less self-blaming ideas about how other people behave towards her , and examining with her the origins and validity of her underlying sense of worthlessness . |
| 8 | However Sharda had a close friend who was West Indian and she had discussed with her the reasons why Asian girls were so frequently attacked and bullied : |
| 9 | Well of course she came running to me , you see , and we immediately phoned for the doctor , you see but , however , and I said , look , phone for the doctor , I said , and then I said go across to the railway police just across the yard and I asked one of them to come to me and I said I will go up with her and be with her until the doctor arrived , er he was with her the police sergeant when she died . |
| 10 | Above her the fields rose steeply , rough grass and scattered olive trees , which in that light looked immovably ancient and grotesque . |
| 11 | Ariel soon began to pick up some English , especially from Jack Elsey , a nineteen-year-old from Southwark , who 'd been the cook on the outward journey , and was prompt to learn from her the flavours of the island vegetables and herbs , the edible flowers and fruits he 'd never imagined could possibly exist when he was growing up one of the twelve offspring of a Thames waterman . |
| 12 | Round her the abysses of sky and sea met in an unattainable frontier . |
| 13 | Though all about her the dancers were stopping , bowing and smiling , the atmosphere had heated up . |
| 14 | For her the tears are a language , for him they are a threat . |
| 15 | ‘ She also asked me to recount for her the circumstances leading up to the car crash in May 1968 in which poor Willy Morpurgo suffered brain damage . ’ |
| 16 | in the small hours and for her the woods |
| 17 | Not for her the shops of the Boulevard or Bond Street . |
| 18 | It was that smell that on summer mornings most clearly brought back to her the lanes of her Shropshire childhood . |
| 19 | If Hywel said to her the things the woman says , for a time Elizabeth would smile . |
| 20 | Her murderous dreams had then seemed to her the hallucinations of a soul mad with grief . |
| 21 | She determined she would show him how generous she could be , next time , how to her the priests ' talk was cant , and she 'd defy all for love of him . |
| 22 | A fortnight with her parents , he was thinking now , on their many acres of damp earth , must surely bring home to her the advantages of living on Lord Jim . |
| 23 | It was Edna who had actually imparted to her the facts of life , Edna who had accurately predicted how long each governess would last , Edna who had vowed she would name her first daughter after Celia — and kept her promise . |
| 24 | According to her the dogs are not a nuisance and she wo n't pay the fine . |
| 25 | She would not say anything , Mrs Blakey decided as she collected around her the ingredients of a steak and kidney stew for everyone 's supper . |