Example sentences of "[prep] her at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Obviously she is very upset being left alone in a strange country and we are looking after her at the police station .
2 Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all .
3 He swallowed and , keeping his head low , looked past her at the girls .
4 ‘ What do you want ? ’ he demanded , looking past her at the paladin , who was brandishing his sword .
5 On the narrow bridge he stood in front of her again , blocking her way , looking back past her at the House .
6 As she turned the corner , about four feet ahead of her at the saloon end of the passage , Nathan was sitting in the well-padded swivel chair bolted to the deck in front of the chart table .
7 Rosa had been crying then , with the pieces of the plate her mother had tried to smash over her head in front of her at the table , and her mother had put the back of her hand to her daughter 's cheek , as if to test her for fever .
8 ‘ I could have jumped on board of her at the time from the jib-boom . ’
9 She looked behind her at the door of the courtroom .
10 Once ensconced in her burrow , the female mite will soon begin to lay eggs , which accumulate behind her at the rate of three or four a day .
11 You came without warning and without asking my permission and sat with her at the back of the lecture theatre , exchanging glances and comments .
12 With her at the presentation was Nan McKelvie ( left ) and Jean Murray ( right ) .
13 The ‘ Minister of the Crown ’ role was hung on little Colin Moynihan for a day or two while everyone tried not to laugh ; he was , after all , only just over five foot tall and Minister for Sport and he had , after all , not slept with Pamella , only been with her at the Winter Ball .
14 One day , she had shyly asked the Princesse whether Portia might come and spend a week with her at the beginning of the summer break .
15 Instead of asking Robert to spend more time with her at the weekends , she blamed him for being absent when something quite minor happened to one of the children .
16 ‘ I mean , ’ Magrit said apologetically , ‘ that we caught up with her at the ice-cliffs just beyond the perimeter .
17 Having the children with her at the Everest base camp on the Western Cwm ice fall would not be a problem , as dad was coming too to look after them .
18 The old man had gone to stay with relatives for a few days , and Dorothy wondered if I would water her houseplants , because he ( Leo ) wanted to spend all the time he could with her at the hospital .
19 Her mother spoke emotionally of the moment when they were reunited with her at the hospital on Sunday .
20 Half a dozen Floridians trailed after their leader , making the shape of a V with her at the point .
21 Arrested with Mrs Dyer was her son-in-law , a Mr Arthur Palmer , who happened to be living with her at the time .
22 No P C er was erm dealing with her at the time .
23 Mat was good too , because he did n't want to arrive at her place hot and flustered ; not today , not with her at the end of the walk , not with that subtle but unequivocal promise there , waiting , ready .
24 She wondered if the mac belonged to Johnny , and if , perhaps , he was there in the house with her at the moment .
25 Well , the doctor 's with her at the moment , although he should n't be long .
26 I 'm having the trouble with her at the moment .
27 I 'm not going out with her at the moment .
28 Also we do need a shelf you know in the office , Wendy has a shelf above her at the side , above and we really need another shelf underneath to store things .
29 Right now it would have taken more than a memory of someone else 's predictions to have any effect on the blazing anger stirring in her at the prospect of sweaty workmen and a ruined holiday .
30 And suddenly she felt fierce anger flare up inside her at the way he continually misjudged and denied her and seemed to reject every good and decent thing about her .
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