Example sentences of "[prep] her in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The winner will receive a bottle of champagne on her birthday every year and will have a vine named after her in the Veuve Clicquot vineyard . |
| 2 | She sincerely believes that her grandmother looks after her in the spirit world . |
| 3 | Alice afterwards — in an effort to safeguard her position — claimed that it was the queen who had summoned her and who had promised to look after her in the future . |
| 4 | Arnie had never looked after her in the way Guido meant , performing the sort of small but pleasing acts of chivalry that seemed to come so naturally to him . |
| 5 | But when he came to sit opposite her in the dining-room that first evening , he felt he had made a mistake . |
| 6 | One lunchtime Minton , wearing what seemed to her a hideous sweater knitted for him by his mother , sat opposite her in the school restaurant . |
| 7 | She knew this from the hushed voices of the nursery staff and from the comings and goings far below her in the great house . |
| 8 | There , spread out below her in the late afternoon sun , was Florence . |
| 9 | Juliet is overpowered by passion when she first meets Romeo , and yet still considers his welfare when he is below her in the garden , and the rashness of a contract that is too sudden . |
| 10 | He was a great lad now , though still slight and not above average height for eleven years , but he had not changed towards her in the least and his adoration of Pilade was touching . |
| 11 | And then , the enormous figure with rust-coloured moustaches walking towards her in the hall . |
| 12 | A spider the size of her thumbnail dropped past her in the gloom , its legs brushing her cheek . |
| 13 | I ran back half a mile of road to get a glimpse of her in the distance , though we had passed her half an hour before , & of course she was out of sight on the Downs . |
| 14 | The sight of her in the old tatty jumpers she slept in always brought him back to reality . |
| 15 | A gelding that is accompanied by a more may be extremely possessive of her in the company of other horses , and may be tempted to attack all and sundry — including other mares ! |
| 16 | He seems to have been content with his wife , though he saw little enough of her in the years which followed . |
| 17 | No sign of her in the dining-room . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't know how you can even speak of her in the same breath . ’ |
| 19 | I liked her Mat Coward and Edward Pearce ( ‘ Socialism 's answer to Ezra Pound , only more confused ’ and ‘ A sort of sober Dylan Thomas ’ ) , and confidently expect to see more of her in the future . |
| 20 | It 's not going to be as big as her first marriage , when 47,000 well-wishers crowded the streets around Westminster Abbey to catch a glimpse of her in the magnificent Glass Coach . |
| 21 | There were photographs of her in the few parts she had been able to play in the years following her marriage ; photographs of her in youth , when her father had begun to launch her on the career which would be interrupted by the coming of Paul . |
| 22 | She roused increasing desire in him ; he thought of her in the night , when his abstruse reflections on the day 's work were done . |
| 23 | There was no sign of her in the street but a taxi might draw up at any moment . |
| 24 | The careful ‘ packaging ’ of Mrs Thatcher by Gordon Reece from the mid-1970s onwards was designed to create a different image of her in the minds of the public , an image which was felt to elicit a more positive response on the part of the public . |
| 25 | He had grown fond of her in the last few days . |
| 26 | When she recently appeared at a New York department store to promote a scent , over 5,000 people turned up to catch a precious glimpse of her in the flesh . |
| 27 | I tried not to think of her in the feathery nightdress under the influence of the aphrodisiac . |
| 28 | See enough of her in the kitchen , as it is , ’ nostrils flaring , mouth dipping . |
| 29 | She tried to convince herself he was still there — smirking at the sight of her in the ropes he 'd tied to her naked body . |
| 30 | Lying face-downwards in a tangle of strings was a puppet fully five feet high , a sylphide in a fountain of white tulle , fallen flat down as if someone had got tired of her in the middle of playing with her , dropped her and wandered off . |