Example sentences of "[prep] her in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arnie had never looked after her in the way Guido meant , performing the sort of small but pleasing acts of chivalry that seemed to come so naturally to him . |
| 2 | She sincerely believes that her grandmother looks after her in the spirit world . |
| 3 | Alice afterwards — in an effort to safeguard her position — claimed that it was the queen who had summoned her and who had promised to look after her in the future . |
| 4 | One lunchtime Minton , wearing what seemed to her a hideous sweater knitted for him by his mother , sat opposite her in the school restaurant . |
| 5 | But when he came to sit opposite her in the dining-room that first evening , he felt he had made a mistake . |
| 6 | Juliet is overpowered by passion when she first meets Romeo , and yet still considers his welfare when he is below her in the garden , and the rashness of a contract that is too sudden . |
| 7 | And then , the enormous figure with rust-coloured moustaches walking towards her in the hall . |
| 8 | A spider the size of her thumbnail dropped past her in the gloom , its legs brushing her cheek . |
| 9 | He was suddenly moved by her physically , as he had been by the sight of her in the film . |
| 10 | She roused increasing desire in him ; he thought of her in the night , when his abstruse reflections on the day 's work were done . |
| 11 | A gelding that is accompanied by a more may be extremely possessive of her in the company of other horses , and may be tempted to attack all and sundry — including other mares ! |
| 12 | Lying face-downwards in a tangle of strings was a puppet fully five feet high , a sylphide in a fountain of white tulle , fallen flat down as if someone had got tired of her in the middle of playing with her , dropped her and wandered off . |
| 13 | I ran back half a mile of road to get a glimpse of her in the distance , though we had passed her half an hour before , & of course she was out of sight on the Downs . |
| 14 | See enough of her in the kitchen , as it is , ’ nostrils flaring , mouth dipping . |
| 15 | There was no sign of her in the street but a taxi might draw up at any moment . |
| 16 | He had not seen her all day and badly wanted to say goodbye , but there was no sign of her in the crowd that had gathered to see them off . |
| 17 | And , once on that tack , she saw Luke everywhere : in the purposeful stride of a man ahead of her in the crowd ; in the dark , white-stranded head of a man bent over his newspaper ; in a rich crimson and grey striped silk tie … |
| 18 | There were no photographs of her in the house in King Street , and the photographs Stephen had seen he had wrested out of old Mrs Naulls . |
| 19 | He wanted to know where Miss Stapleton was , and I had to tell him twice that there was no sign of her in the house . |
| 20 | We 've got a picture of her in the health club in a leotard doing a pose like that . |
| 21 | No sign of her in the dining-room . |
| 22 | I liked her Mat Coward and Edward Pearce ( ‘ Socialism 's answer to Ezra Pound , only more confused ’ and ‘ A sort of sober Dylan Thomas ’ ) , and confidently expect to see more of her in the future . |
| 23 | When she recently appeared at a New York department store to promote a scent , over 5,000 people turned up to catch a precious glimpse of her in the flesh . |
| 24 | There was no sign of her in the entrance foyer , nor in the street outside . |
| 25 | ‘ You do n't meet people like her in the Peak District . ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps there are some more like her in the warren . " |
| 27 | ‘ You see a woman like her in the street and you imagine she is very much at ease with life , ’ Catherine told me recently . |
| 28 | So the Bangles disbanded and Hoffs walked into the sunset , a thousand corporate cheque books glinting behind her in the sun 's twilight glow . |
| 29 | They crowded behind her in the doorway . |
| 30 | She moved away , walking beside the river , but she could hear footsteps behind her in the grass , and felt love all around her , like perfume in the air . |