Example sentences of "[prep] her [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could decide to work at a time when your partner or a friend is round to see the baby , or arrange for someone — a childminder or relative — to look after her for a few hours each week . |
| 2 | Snappy bounded after her for a few yards , then scampered away to follow his mistress . |
| 3 | No , yeah I 'll come with you , you go off and stay with Joyce , look after her for a little while and let Kenneth sort things out ! |
| 4 | The others gaze after her in a casual way and resume their Beatles medley . |
| 5 | She did not dare look down , but she could feel the machine moving below her like a maddened metal beast prowling backwards and forwards in a pit , its metal jaws opening and closing , clanging and gnashing with thwarted fury . |
| 6 | Her voice trailed away completely as he reached lazily towards her with a long arm . |
| 7 | On Luke 's advice , she had n't mentioned any of his misgivings about the deal she had struck , and the woman now behaved towards her with a patronising graciousness that Folly found intensely irritating . |
| 8 | When she threw a look over her shoulder , however , he had n't given up at all , but was prowling towards her with a bemused smile on his face . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Oh , sure , about as safe as a shield of plastic wrap would make her feel if a bear were charging towards her at a full gallop . |
| 11 | She stopped to catch a child by the hand and whisper some word which was rewarded with a kiss , then caught the corner of her veil to cover her already masked face as the chief driver came towards her for a quick answer to a query , always given and received after the words of greeting and queries as to health had been exchanged . |
| 12 | Hurrying towards her across a central green which had been planted out with trees and flowers . |
| 13 | Brunskill , winner of the Shildon Rail Trail race on Sunday , also had Stansmore in her sights from the start and burst past her on a downhill section after two miles to win by a comfortable 15 seconds . |
| 14 | Madame 's eyes seemed to look past her into a different time . |
| 15 | In this way she guides the attacker 's punch right past her with a successful deflection . |
| 16 | Like the other playwrights whose response to Thatcherism and brutality has been some hand-wringing of their own , Barker is too infatuated by his heroine 's strength to humanise her withe vulnerability and too in awe of her for a passionate or coolly detached opposition . |
| 17 | She always did bring the water eventually , and to her cronies Mairi sometimes admitted she was glad to see the back of her for a few hours ; but that never weakened her tongue . |
| 18 | He lay prone on top of her for a few moments then he rolled to one side , panting loudly , his breath slowly returning to normal . |
| 19 | She lathered herself languidly beneath the refreshing jets of water , letting the spray caress every hot , sticky part of her with a glorious wave of sensual awareness . |
| 20 | As she clung to the powerful width of his shoulders , trembling from head to foot with the force of her emotions , he grasped the softness of her buttocks and drove deeply , irrevocably into the silken white-hot sheath of her with a harsh , abrupt shout of victory , his lidded gaze brilliant with triumph … |
| 21 | Her friends did not think of her as a drunk and Rachel would be truly shocked if she knew about the long nights of insomnia and secret alcohol . |
| 22 | Somewhere there was a photograph of her as a small child standing outside the cathedral with the aunt who had brought her up and taken her one day to visit it . |
| 23 | It was important to him , important enough to see that members of his family met her and that he found out what they thought of her as a possible wife for him . |
| 24 | Even a slight anecdote of her as a sixteen-year-old girl guide being seduced in a tent by a boy scout is illustrated . |
| 25 | He would go on thinking of her as a beautiful , hidden woman , with a striking flair for life lying in sulky disuse . |
| 26 | Faye Hamilton and her brother both thought of her as a sweet little thing who needed protection , did they ? |
| 27 | She saw her future flash in front of her like a dying man 's , every day longer and emptier than the one before . |
| 28 | His prong began to thrust in and out of her like a greased piston , and she found it slipped up her arse as often as it penetrated her vagina . |
| 29 | They may even have had servants , and I remember seeing photographs of her in a beautiful gown . |
| 30 | There 'd been ever more frequent occasions , when he took her to dances and held her in his arms , that he had once more become acutely aware of her in a physical sense . |