Example sentences of "[v-ing] her in the " in BNC.
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| 31 | He took her chin between finger and thumb , turning her face and drowning her in the warm amber light of his eyes . |
| 32 | He could n't go on seeing her in the circumstances . |
| 33 | As a result she is not allowed by her mother to supplement the family income by helping her in the fields , since to be seen doing it would mean she had become an illiterate villager again . |
| 34 | ‘ Perhaps he touched it while helping her in the kitchen … putting the knives away ’ |
| 35 | Stella was afraid Babs might tell Dotty that she did n't wear a slip and that Dotty would rush out and buy her one , just as she had bought her a brassière after catching her in the wardrobe with her arms above her head about to be fitted for her Ptolemy costume . |
| 36 | He climbed in beside her , eagerly rubbing his hands over her body , jostling her in the back seat . |
| 37 | Alison 's taking her in the van . |
| 38 | And then when they were taking her in the ambulance , the nerves , I was sitting fucking laughing |
| 39 | Had he done wrong in inviting her in the first place ? |
| 40 | ‘ The others hatched plans for him , like abducting Constanza and hiding her in the depth of Calabria . |
| 41 | It was ten minutes before he followed her , finding her in the kitchen apparently listening to a mid-Saturday morning news flash on the radio there with blank-eyed concentration . |
| 42 | The sheriff made an order placing her in the care of the social work department . |
| 43 | The girl , who can not be named for legal reasons , was in court to hear the judge dismiss her father 's appeal against a magistrates ' order placing her in the care of London 's Southwark Council under the 1989 Children Act . |
| 44 | ‘ In other words , Loretta , ’ he said , poking her in the ribs with his elbow , ‘ you 're a gradualist ! ’ |
| 45 | ‘ As daylight , ’ she snapped , before giving a heavy sigh as she realised that , yet again , the horrid man had succeeded in putting her in the wrong . |
| 46 | He might have been receiving her in the best parlour on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 47 | Watching her in the mirror , Charlie moved into the room and half-closed the door behind him . |
| 48 | ( He had been watching her in the shaman 's lodge earlier ! |
| 49 | He paused , and Juliet felt he was watching her in the darkness . |
| 50 | ‘ Just one of those late-night conversations , ’ he drawled , watching her in the darkened interior as the car shot along the motorway . |
| 51 | ‘ I made a mistake casting her in the part and I felt very badly about it , ’ was all Warren Beatty would say . |
| 52 | Lalu falls in love with mule skinner Jim ( a rather lacklustre Dennis Dun ) , who lopes off to raise the readies to buy her from slimy Hong King ( Michael Paul Chan ) leaving her in the care of his friend Charlie Bemis ( Chris Cooper ) , a compassionate but cowardly Yankee with a booze problem . |
| 53 | I hate bathing her in the sink because the kitchen is draughty , especially since a chunk of the wall fell out a few weeks ago . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ You 're doing brilliantly , ’ smiled Lucenzo , waylaying her in the dining-room , his arms full of hyacinths . |
| 55 | Gerda kept contact with her foster mother , visiting her in the holidays , which satisfied Bloomsbury House that the decencies were being preserved . |
| 56 | I was also excited at the prospect of earning some reward , and I could n't sleep that night for thinking about visiting her in the morning . |
| 57 | Three men who were visiting her in the flat were also attacked and beaten . |
| 58 | Ryker said , jabbing her in the ribs with his elbow . |
| 59 | ‘ Turn , ’ the designer commanded , jabbing her in the leg with a pudgy hand . |
| 60 | I was impressed , then I noticed him clocking her in the mirror behind the bar . |