Example sentences of "[vb past] her [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what did she say about the money when you tried her for less money ? |
| 2 | A few hours earlier Mrs Valerie Williams was robbed of her firm 's wages on a quite road in South Wales when masked men overtook her in this stolen car and forced her to stop and then rammed her vehicle from behind with another car . |
| 3 | Next , they offered to pay the woman of the house for the milk , and she asked a shilling , at which some of the men goaded her towards more ; when she refused to raise her price , Boswell gave her a half-crown ( influenced , I feel , not so much by her honest generosity , but by her shapeliness which he described as ‘ comely almost as the figure of Sappho ’ ) . |
| 4 | Old tombstones provided her with that lit match to the powder trail of her imagination . |
| 5 | Rose , he knew , had had an opportunity — her dog-walking provided her with that . |
| 6 | This provided her with some seeds and a loan to buy a goat . |
| 7 | Ann Langford having made her very successful parachute jump which has produced a handsome sum to be shared between Dr. Barnardo 's and the Society wishes to thank all those people who sponsored her in this even . |
| 8 | She was as fearless as the Wooldridge boys who involved her in all their mischief , but sometimes Anna would stand and stare , as if she was seeing things that others could n't see . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A sense that what had just happened involved her in some way made her pull herself together and run down on to the course where racecourse attendants were already putting up a screen . |
| 11 | ‘ Found her on half an acre in Buckinghamshire with her mother and got her for my youngest lad . |
| 12 | ‘ So you found her after all . |
| 13 | Her husband Karl , 63 , found her in half on the toolshed floor . |
| 14 | Rain caught her in both arms , held her tight , and knew it was only her grasp which kept the woman upright . |
| 15 | Without being aware of it , he punished her for this deeply felt bodily rejection in bed by withdrawing his body out of bed . |
| 16 | Preston stopped her without much trouble with his one good arm . |
| 17 | Roger approached her with another tall , fair man . |
| 18 | I think she 's a bit upset , I think she thinks I 'm better , I 'm better than her because I beat her in that , and I think she 's , a bit of shock for her . |
| 19 | Looked again , more carefully this time , and saw no-one that resembled her at all . |
| 20 | That pleased her for some unknown reason . |
| 21 | And yet … the thought crept back just before she drifted off to sleep … it had been rather nice that he had actually noticed her in the past , and noticed her to such an extent that he was now in a position to compare the woman she 'd become to the girl she 'd once been . |
| 22 | He studied her with those incredibly gorgeous blue eyes , filled with charm and love , darkness and intelligence , sex appeal and strength . |
| 23 | He lifted her head , studied her with those warm , intelligent , dark , sexy eyes . |
| 24 | He studied her for several seconds , as if baffled . |
| 25 | He flicked the white silk bow undone , his fingers running through it , inciting shivers of heat to flood her skin as he studied her through those hooded lids , and deliberately stroked one long finger down the nape of her neck and lowered his blue eyes to watch her nipples erect in fierce , unwanted response . |
| 26 | But Rochester did er did er , when he was trying to rebuke himself for committing what was bigamy , and the works , he said , when he compared his own wife , who was really a mental animal because she very bestial the way she bit people , and then , he compared her with this sweet , dewy-eyed Jane , he did give a reason did n't he ? |
| 27 | Then the attacker drove her to another spot nearby , before raping her again . |
| 28 | She was silent and acquiescent , however , so he climbed in and drove her round several blocks , just for the joy of it , taking the sharp corners so fast that her tyres shrieked in protest . |
| 29 | You see in consecrated ground so they buried her in this bit of wheat land at the Muckle Water there . |
| 30 | To Clara , it was always painfully conspicuous , an indictment of a way of life ; she knew nothing of the history of slop basins , nor of the society that evolved them and their joyless name , but the sight of one affected her like some shameful family secret . |