Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] her [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I knew if I was n't careful my obsession for her could destroy me . |
| 2 | She began inching towards him , hugging the face of the cliff , praying that the rock beneath her would hold . |
| 3 | This will produce different responses as both people and animals around her may react differently to each ‘ phase ’ . |
| 4 | At this very moment that little scrap 's mother must be in hell , and part of her will stay there for the rest of her life . |
| 5 | Arfur 's missus has never appeared on screen but her shady husband 's description of her will appear in the famous reference work 's next edition . |
| 6 | He had believed that a country girl like her would find him wonderful , a college man with great ambitions . |
| 7 | Any member of stab who went into the Biology Lab before her would have needed a good excuse to explain his presence there , unless , of course , he was a member of the Biology Department . |
| 8 | then you er everyone sang Happy Birthday and somebody arrived down the aisle with a couple of balloons for her should have done that for me too , on my |
| 9 | Before the days of radio , boats like her would race down-channel as far as the Lizard to get first contact for the ship-to-shore trade from vessels making port . |
| 10 | My leaving Lula caused quite a scandal in Berlin ; but that period with her could have been deadly for me . |
| 11 | Perhaps he thought powerful attacks on her might produce the result he longed for . |
| 12 | To provide a university education for her might mark her out as a favoured pupil . |
| 13 | But now , going to the Mountains of the Moon without her would have been heart-breaking , and I was overjoyed when she decided to join me . |
| 14 | Alice was to work in computers he , Andrew , would arrange for her to have a quick course of training , which would be a sufficient basis on which an intelligent woman like her could build . |
| 15 | But the moment passed , for there was something in her grasp of his legs that was so awkward , so inexperienced , and the pitch of her entreaties remained so anguished that he knew she was only doing what she imagined might persuade him to help her ; and a wave of self-loathing washed over him , that a woman like her could think of a man like him in such a light . |
| 16 | He demanded to know of another ambassador 's wife , no longer young , what kind of impression an old and unfashionable woman like her must give of Britain abroad : why could n't she look as attractive as the young woman opposite ? |
| 17 | The locomotive was ‘ Perseverance ’ , and the damage to her may have included boiler damage , as old tubes were sold and new ones bought as a consequence of the accident . |
| 18 | She had known that his love for her would remain , and ‘ for her to have acted on that knowledge ’ in resorting to the deception ‘ made her deed unforgivable ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ The likes of her 'll go on for a bit yet , ’ said Jack . |
| 20 | The biographies were terse and restrained , as far as his private life was concerned , and effusive only about the names and quality of his publications She thought that she might ring Peter de Salis , and ask him about Mrs Denham , but she did not want to do this , in case Mrs Denham was a lady of such fame that ignorance of her would prove to be positively compromising . |
| 21 | If a word from her might help him , she was not the woman to withhold it . |
| 22 | The boy keeping pace beside her must have heard the sigh ; he glanced at her , his expression concerned . |
| 23 | But it is appropriate to ask whether the brutal attack on her would have happened if she had been armed with the kind of baton the Home Secretary has banned . |
| 24 | He had only to close his eyes and the image of her would come to him , taking his breath . |
| 25 | Cassie began to feel the strength of her will ebb away , and she despised herself . |
| 26 | For all his apparent certainty , the decision to throw in his lot with her must have weighed heavily . |
| 27 | Those countries that could not ‘ keep up ’ with Germany or which were on a different economic cycle from her would suffer badly in terms of their standards of living . |
| 28 | A few facts about her will help to clarify the position . |
| 29 | In spite of the fact that you turned her away , I was afraid that your love and devotion to her might make you forget how she had shamed you . |
| 30 | And , if so , would Suzie be so blinded by it that no appeal to her would prevail ? |