Example sentences of "[vb past] her [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only got to know her a little as a teenager when I visited her on my own in the single-end where she lived in a Parkhead tenement , sleeping , washing and cooking in one room . |
| 2 | Style director Hamish Bowles , a lifelong fan , visited her at her magnificent home , Templeton , on Long Island and spent a day talking to and photographing her in some her favourite clothes ( see page 220 ) : ‘ It 's a ravishing and evocative home , C.Z. is a scintillating hostess and brings a contemporary touch to a house that is almost Edwardian in its management and battalions of staff . ’ |
| 3 | A few years later , when a Japanese professor on holiday in England visited her in our other house in Bath , Hill House in Sion Road , he said to her , in the usual Japanese joky way : ‘ I 'm sure your son will be marrying some nice Japanese lady , Mrs Kirkup . ’ |
| 4 | She felt a cold disgust as physical as nausea and with it there swept over her a weakness which shrivelled her in her chair . |
| 5 | Yet she had no doubt she was lucky ; he still moved her with his intelligence , his charm , his sensitivity . |
| 6 | Ever since Courtney indecently assaulted her at his Harley Street clinic in October last year , the girl known to the jury as Miss C has been having nightmares about the attack . |
| 7 | Fingers like a vice on her wrist , he jerked her to her feet . |
| 8 | The scrape of a chair 's being drawn out jerked her from her musings , and she looked up quickly . |
| 9 | All at once she began to scream , turning her tiny head away , and Peg bounced her against her shoulder with soothing murmurs until the outburst ceased . |
| 10 | Taking her arm , he drew her to her feet , his body shielding her from the rest of the room . |
| 11 | For a second he looked exasperated and then he murmured something in his own language and suddenly drew her to her feet , his hands gripping hers , steadying her and comforting . |
| 12 | Smiling , he took her hand and drew her to her feet . |
| 13 | In no time at all Travis had a good fire going , and the heat from it drew her to her knees beside it , hands held out to the warmth . |
| 14 | Somehow , the spell of the calm evening drew her to her feet . |
| 15 | With some wild , unplanned , unfocused idea of shaming him with feminine helplessness , she stayed mute as he drew her into his arms , and remained passive as he gathered her up to him . |
| 16 | Unexpectedly , Leo drew her into his arms and rested his head on hers . |
| 17 | Effortlessly , he released the recalcitrant belt and drew her into his arms . |
| 18 | Reaching across , he drew her into his arms , settling her head against his shoulder as he stroked her ice-cold cheek with a gentle hand . |
| 19 | Would she ? she wondered as he drew her into his special world of sensuality . |
| 20 | ‘ My name , ’ he stroked her with his voice , ‘ is Jesse Isambard Sweetman . |
| 21 | ‘ So what you reckon is , she had her boyfriend in , and after he left someone climbed in the window and smothered her in her sleep ? ’ |
| 22 | Rohan cradled her in his arms , murmuring to her , soothing her , praising her . |
| 23 | Then she turned to the red bitch and thrashed her for her negligence , calling her lazy , useless , good-for-nothing . |
| 24 | He contacted her when he heard of her research into women 's self-defence and invited her to his surgery . |
| 25 | ‘ The Cock of the North invited her to his wedding , ’ said Grace . |
| 26 | A letter of 1871 gives a vivid sense of the convictions which impelled her throughout her life : ‘ As I have grown older the terrible sufferings of women of my own class for want of good elementary training have more than ever intensified my earnest desire to lighten ever so little the misery of women brought up ‘ to be married and taken care of ’ and left alone in the world destitute . |
| 27 | But he woke in the small hours and found her in his arms , just like that first time in the studio at Westfield Manor . |
| 28 | It was the memory of the sparkling waters of Tenerife that helped her with her imaging , and her joy in at last succeeding in that therapy was immense and infectious . |
| 29 | We helped her with her problem because it meant she relaxed and gave a better ‘ performance ’ . |
| 30 | Jacob helped her with her coat . |