Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] her [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Di wrote to her after the ceremony thanking her for all the work she had done for fellow cancer sufferers and for raising £40,000 towards the centre . |
2 | The next step , which only the most well-off men such as restaurant owners can afford , is keeping this wife in semi-purdah — in other words sentencing her to solitary confinement . |
3 | Even before he got to her she was mesmerised , the dark eyes holding her with complete ease , and she had to bring herself quickly back to the present to do what she had planned and set matters on an even footing straight away . |
4 | Caroline paced her bedroom , her furious steps taking her from one end of the handsome room to the other . |
5 | What was n't sitting well was those sapphire eyes studying her with such disturbing intensity that she felt stripped to her soul ! |
6 | Roman , desiring her , his dark gaze drawing her into that hot , frightening vortex of her own senses … caves , black as night , ‘ caverns measureless to man ’ , and the story of the wicked Hasan … |
7 | Levering himself up to sit back on his heels and pulling her easily with him , he lifted her on to his lap , so that she found herself straddling him , her naked breasts pressed against the sensuous roughness of his chest , with only thin swimming costumes protecting her from ultimate intimacy . |
8 | Her voice trailed off as she noticed the boy watching her with grey , expressionless eyes . |
9 | The Clerk was to send a letter of apology to Mrs thanking her for twenty years of service and ask if she 'd reconsider the job . |
10 | Alexandra would find her by the fire in the drawing-room in the afternoons , the Pekinese guarding her against invisible dangers , then she came down in the mornings and needed letters written , wools held . |
11 | They passed two landings , Gordon following her with majestic tread , but faster than one might expect , since although he had lost time in hanging up his raincoat in the hall , he reached the door first , and opened it without any kind of announcement , and Edward was standing , with his back to them at first , thinner and smaller than she remembered , but then she always made the mistake when she had n't seen him for a bit — he turned round , protesting , and it was Edward . |
12 | Then the hotel ( ‘ Charlie sent us , ’ ) and the assistant manager drawing her to one side ( ‘ I 'm putting you in a suite for a couple of hours . |
13 | Having always taken great pains over her appearance , the thought of Brian seeing her in such hideous circumstances appalled her . |
14 | She has endured house arrest , detentions without trial , continual harassment by the police and orders banning her from political activity , while , all the time , never shrinking from her duties of leadership in the thankless battle against apartheid . |
15 | Bracken scratched her tender skin , but she was barely aware of it , her every nerve ending alive only to the man touching her with such consummate skill . |
16 | Nothing else mattered any more , nothing else in the entire universe held any significance except the man holding her with such quiet strength . |
17 | I told Michel that was all very well but for goodness ' sake stop taking her to that white port-wine place , the sandwiches there — though delicious — are minute . |
18 | He had stood quietly swaying himself on his heels , an almost derisive expression in the curl of his lips as he smoked a cigarette , his very silence provoking her to further abuse . |
19 | They reported that they knew of no matter involving her in any way and asked for a description of the white identification cards . |
20 | She could sense Guy watching her with narrowed attention , and clenched her hands inside the pockets of her suede waistcoat , battling to get her reactions under control . |
21 | The other half of the club has a stage surrounded by white plastic tables and chairs , above which a blonde girl in a white body stocking was dangling from a rope , with only a ligature around her ankle saving her from crashing head first to the floor . |
22 | Joan did the laundry , washing up , and housework holding her with one arm . |
23 | But with the size that the baby is already , it 's likely Greene would have a hard time getting her beyond thirty-eight weeks . |
24 | This was the corner to which she had tottered , her mother holding her on white leather reins , her legs encased in knitted leggings whose scratchiness she could still remember . |
25 | Some female handed them a hypo-bulb and they sprayed it into Jezrael 's face , and there was a physical paralysis leadening her without physical pain . |
26 | Pinise Saul 's vocals added a spine-tingling force to a mid-tempo theme , Dave DeFries 's flugalhorn complementing her with brisk fluttering phrases . |