Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] her [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , as she crossed into Farringdon Street and saw familiar landmarks , she stopped and put down her bag , gazing about her with the pleasure of someone who has come home after a long absence . |
| 2 | That last taut exchange with Roman seemed to have whipped up some invisible energy that would n't let her relax , prickling through her like an electric storm . |
| 3 | As Sara leaned over the gate , a slight figure who had been obscured behind them began walking towards her along the hedge . |
| 4 | Constance had no time to assess the bewildering exchange of tone that the lunch party had taken before Giancarlo was walking towards her with a vivacious woman by his side who was busily blowing kisses and calling ‘ Ciao ’ to the tables she passed . |
| 5 | And then , the enormous figure with rust-coloured moustaches walking towards her in the hall . |
| 6 | And then , walking behind her at a rather greater distance than might have been thought usual , came Linnet Gage in a dress that fell from her tiny waist as gracefully and naturally as a waterfall , each diaphanous tulle frill overlapping the other with perfect simplicity , her face as delicate and beautiful as rare porcelain , her blue eyes clouded by a dream of remote but tantalizing sweetness , which also touched the corners of her lips , raising them very slightly in a smile of which every man present must have wished to know the secret . |
| 7 | One day I 'm walking with her beside the river , and I 've got my arm round her shoulders , and she 's put her arm round my waist , and we laugh at everything , and stop every few yards to kiss , and think , this is fantastic ! |
| 8 | Appearing with her before Wirral magistrates was Craig Blackwell , 23 , of the same address , who admitted allowing fraudulent use of the licence . |
| 9 | Who were these people , so many of them , crowding round her in a white hedge . |
| 10 | Slowly , he put down the silver pen he had been toying with and stood up , walking to her at the windows . |
| 11 | I can remember only walking beside her in the dusk towards Regent 's Park , because we both wanted darkness and to be alone . |
| 12 | When I go past , I wonder what has been happening to her in the intervening years , and that 's very odd . ’ |
| 13 | The court further ordered that there be no soliciting of any information relating to her from herself , from staff , pupils or residents at any institution , or from any carer or relative . |
| 14 | He did his best to ignore it , failed , and reached out to the bedside table where it sat , throwing the receiver off its cradle and returning to her in one graceless motion . |
| 15 | Robyn turned the ignition over , realising he was gaining on her with remarkable speed , and the jeep roared into life . |
| 16 | THE lover of Britain 's famous agony aunt , Marje Proops , was secretly cheating on her by living with another woman . |
| 17 | He was simply laughing at her in that condescending way he had . |
| 18 | Piaget 's name for this important first stage in the child 's long struggle to make sense of her environment was the sensori-motor stage , since at this time the child is seen as only being able to make sense of what is happening around her in terms of establishing relatively simple relations between her motor actions and the associated sensations . |
| 19 | At the same time , I was refusing for her to be brought to the prison because although I wanted to see her more than anything , I was damn sure she was n't going to come to prison and see me . |
| 20 | It appears that , following her leaving Ontario , the lawyers who had been acting for her in Ontario were removed from the record . |
| 21 | ‘ Let me do that for you , ’ he said , for it did not seem fitting for her to be pouring out drinks . |
| 22 | She is going about her business , while he is writing about her to the world , and we are seeing her through his eyes . |
| 23 | I want my home , she thought , and was appalled by her childishness ; but the tide of emotion was irresistible , surging through her like great waves . |
| 24 | " We 've been out looking for her since five , " said another man . |
| 25 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 26 | He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking . |
| 27 | We emerged from the shadow of the station into the bright light of noon , and Daffodil Quentin under her sunburst of curls made an entrance from the dome car end , looking about her as if accustomed to people leaping up to help . |
| 28 | She turned , looking about her at the stables . |
| 29 | Tallis said , amazed , looking about her at the dark , snow-striped land . |
| 30 | She was awake now , and looking about her in bewilderment . |