Example sentences of "[vb infin] her [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd far rather have enjoyed the company of her contemporaries and , in fact , Colonel Goreng did n't forbid her consorting with them . |
| 2 | Sometimes I would catch her looking at me with such intensity of feeling that my breath left me for a moment . |
| 3 | And though there was something immeasurably sad about this hopeless daily wait , yet sometimes , just briefly , Creggan would catch her looking in his direction in a way that spoke of support and encouragement . |
| 4 | Let him picture her pottering in the improvised chaos of a damp , windowless room … |
| 5 | Finally , you may expect her to go through a period of depression when she is ceasing to try to avoid the reality of her loss . |
| 6 | One should not expect her to resort to military force ‘ whenever she can get away with it ’ : if nothing else , she needs to keep the world 's ‘ useful idiots ’ in business . |
| 7 | Would he expect her to sleep in his bed , make love to him ? |
| 8 | He could hardly expect her to queue at a bus stop . |
| 9 | If she did n't make a stand now he would expect her to jump to his bidding for the rest of the voyage . |
| 10 | If they were watching for her , they would n't expect her to travel on the night boat from Liverpool , with a rough sea battering at the B & I ship , while the drunks and the seasick threw up in the smelly lounges . |
| 11 | Does that make sense , that 's for the receptionist we do n't expect her to fiddle with the rates for liability , capital or whatever do we ? |
| 12 | And he would watch her go with the certainty that she was meeting a lover . |
| 13 | Times I 've , I 've sat up at the window trying to wa watch her coming round two o'clock in the morning hoping that he 's fallen asleep down in the armchair . |
| 14 | But I can sense her blossoming into that relaxed wakefulness you can get in the quiet hours . |
| 15 | as if he could suddenly feel her looking at him , he glanced directly up at her window . |
| 16 | But he could feel her trembling with excitement , even through the incessant and stupefying vibration of walls , floor and ceiling . |
| 17 | He could feel her trembling against him . |
| 18 | He could feel her seething with suppressed anger . |
| 19 | I ca n't see her sticking with him for long . |
| 20 | I could see her looking at the vessel by the jetty . |
| 21 | Well I ca n't see her living on five pound a week can you ? |
| 22 | FERGIE 'S invitation to join the Queen for Christmas will see her banished to a lonely farmhouse while the rest of the royal family whoop it up two miles away at Sandringham . |
| 23 | You could see her thinking about it , but you could n't have heard that on the phone . |
| 24 | I said because then there it is the four you can see her standing on it . |
| 25 | I can see her smiling at me through it . |
| 26 | Oh ca n't see her coming for Saturday night . |
| 27 | I could so clearly see her coming between you and me , between us and our poetry , and I felt furiously jealous and unhappy but tried not to show it . |
| 28 | you 'd just gone , it 's a wonder you did n't see her coming round the bloody corner . |
| 29 | ‘ I can just see her dripping with tears of anxiety . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I can see her going for that , ’ he said . |