Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] her in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victoria met her in the hall , saying , ‘ You look frozen . |
| 2 | In the morning , Punch brought a letter from Trelorne , whose contents Aunt Emily did not reveal , but Alexandra found her in the drawing-room after luncheon . |
| 3 | He smiled encouragingly , and Juliet was gratified by his attempt to include her in the conversation . |
| 4 | Deep-set eyes quizzed her in the candlelight . |
| 5 | Then he lay down on her , his weight sinking her in the bed as if in sand . |
| 6 | What if she does n't want to be swollen to the size of an elephant with a bleeding parasite kicking her in the guts day and night ? |
| 7 | Lucy rang her in the evening . |
| 8 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 9 | They enjoyed teasing Liz about her pretensions , and rarely had an opportunity to tease her in the presence of Charles . |
| 10 | When Jessica poked her in the ribs and swore they were coming for them , she hardly raised her head . |
| 11 | One flying fist caught her in the throat . |
| 12 | Tears rose haphazardly to her eyes as she watched the sequence of silent film Alexei showed her in the now darkened room . |
| 13 | Fand looked her in the eyes for a long moment ; and it was difficult for Ruth to face the utter loneliness of that gaze . |
| 14 | Her obligations stared her in the face , but she did not flinch ! |
| 15 | At the chilly boarding-school to which her parents sent her in the mistaken belief that she would be less lonely among girls of her own age , the prizes for mathematics — a subject which she did n't particularly care for but which came easily to her — were framed reproductions of the works of Italian painters . |
| 16 | Rain wondered whether she had the cheek to install her in the Antibes flat borrowed from her newspaper colleague . |
| 17 | Imagine : I was a bit pissed for a start , the object of my complete love was nesting in my rear-view mirror , the corpulent groom — my best friend — who had spent three weeks pleasuring her in the Hellenic sunshine was sitting beside me with a clank of duty-free between his calves , I 'd lost my job , and the other drivers on the road were all tuning up for Formula One . |
| 18 | She remembered screaming , remembered one of the storm-troopers punching her in the face to stop her . |
| 19 | It was my job to bury her in the church . |
| 20 | She was part of a team and content to be just that ; she did n't want to have to leave the protective colouring her job gave her in the safety of the laboratory . |
| 21 | As the wounded grandfather pleaded with him to leave Miss Gibson alone , Graham shot her in the chest at point blank range , killing her instantly . |
| 22 | A change to teaching English to Italian children brought worse problems with ‘ il Signor Conte ’ , and a period married to a sisal farmer in Portuguese East Africa found her in the worst place on God 's earth . |
| 23 | ‘ Of course nothing can be formally arranged just at this present , ’ went on Miss Merchiston , and Theda almost laughed out to see the burgeoning hope in the poor man 's face , ‘ for with dear Mama in this sad condition , I could not reconcile it with my conscience to leave her in the care of other hands . |
| 24 | All she needed was someone to accept her cheque and issue a receipt , but there was no sign to point her in the direction of the accounts department , and the staff of Woodline Design were conspicuously absent . |
| 25 | When catastrophe hit her in the shape of the Town & County Bank stopping payment , she was ruined . |
| 26 | Only the pressure of his hand behind her head anchored her in the rushing of the storm . |
| 27 | Leith , with two very large problems staring her in the face — the mortgage and Naylor Massingham , despite his action yesterday still there metaphorically breathing down her neck — thought a denial preferable to dampening her mother 's present happy frame of mind . |
| 28 | When they stepped into the street the damp warmth hit her in the face and the heat of the pavements struck through the thin soles of her shoes so that every step of the way was like treading on hot cinders . |
| 29 | Sam saw her in the light from the lamp-post opposite , strong and solid , a natural leader of men , the spectacles glinting , wire teeth smiling in triumph . |
| 30 | Breakfast and the Pekinese awaited her in the dining-room . |