Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] her [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And how could she , always so proud , have come to ask a stranger to write for her a private letter , even if her sight was becoming bad ? |
| 2 | Ruth sat on her bed and drew towards her the unfinished drawing of lions apparently devouring people — Christians probably , from the school 's Religious Knowledge . |
| 3 | She made her way towards the small window table selected for her the previous evening , but before she could sit down Silas came to her side . |
| 4 | Since childhood , since her early school days , New Year 's Eve had possessed for her a mournful terror : she had elected it to represent the Nothingness which was her own life , the solid , cheerful festival which had seemed to be the lives of others . |
| 5 | Co-star Madeleine Stowe is also convincing as the formidable , spirited Cora Munro , falling for the rugged , beef-cake charms of Hawkeye who instils in her a joyous understanding of the wide open spaces and star spangled skies . |
| 6 | One day he will , and proceed to create from her the perfect dish of a wife and peeress . ’ |
| 7 | Here was this young creature , beautiful and restless , married to a man almost old enough to be her grandfather , and apparently setting out to make the very best of it , too , with no signs of regret or self-pity ; but the prospect of having a girl of her own age in the house , even for a few days , might well matter to her a great deal more than the extension and acceptance of a mere conventional politeness . |
| 8 | Before they left I could not forbear to draw Gillian closer and impart to her the glittering counsel that wearing 501s with trainers was frankly un désastre and that I was amazed she had walked the streets to my apartment in broad daylight and escaped pillory . |
| 9 | What had the vacillating vamp said to her the last time they were together ? |
| 10 | The word stirred her , and she recalled what her mother had said to her the previous day : that Cork had been her home all her life , with no suffering and no want — a safe and secure home . |
| 11 | Was writing to her the nearest he could be ? |
| 12 | The basement cattery seemed to her a sinister place , though she knew that the animals were most lovingly tended by Miss Pettigrew . |
| 13 | More likely is that she wrote down ( accurately ) the beginning , remembered the sound of the end , and linked them together in what seemed to her a possible sequence . |
| 14 | One lunchtime Minton , wearing what seemed to her a hideous sweater knitted for him by his mother , sat opposite her in the school restaurant . |
| 15 | It seemed to her a happy coincidence that Robert ( she thought of him now as Robert ) should write inviting her to Yorkshire for the weekend . |
| 16 | It seemed to her a wonderful invention , making far more of a single egg than any British concoction , easily digestible , tasting rich , sweet and thoroughly sustaining . |
| 17 | It seemed to her a precious gift , far more than just an alleviation of present discomfort . |
| 18 | It was a rough crossing , and most people were rather quiet , and a few were vomiting over the railings and indeed all over the upper-deck , but Clara had never felt better , and the rough lurching seemed to her an added attraction . |
| 19 | She begins by recalling a remark made to her a long time ago by Larkin , about difficulties encountered in his private life — a remark which consisted of a joke to do with ‘ the impossibility of relations between men and women ’ , followed by the notion that ‘ women ought really to marry each other ’ , followed by ‘ but that would be wrong , would n't it ? ’ |
| 20 | Rain murmured to her an unconvincing : ‘ It 's all right . ’ |
| 21 | Jane continued her career — if you can dignify it with such a name — on Vogue , where the personnel manager fiercely shot at her the rhetorical question : ‘ You 've got a private income , of course ? ’ |
| 22 | Then as he turned towards her the overhead lights that she had switched on to look through her dresses shone directly onto his face and she noticed how pale and drawn he looked , lines that were usually unnoticeable etched between nose and mouth , eyes almost feverishly bright . |
| 23 | I do not look like her a little bit |
| 24 | I do not look like her a little bit |
| 25 | He turned on her a rueful expression — rueful but placating , like a boy caught out in a misdemeanour . |
| 26 | He acted as go-between postman , and from time to time he walked with Helen across and around the Common and talked to her a great deal about Edward . |
| 27 | Cedric , on the other band , though obviously delighted to meet her , gave no hint of doing his part , After sniffing her over , he danced around her a few times , goofy-faced , tongue lolling . |
| 28 | He shared with her a great many affinities and interests and returned her respect . |
| 29 | I mean I 've never met Mrs. Thatcher , the only thing I know about her the only facts I have about her I 've got through the press . |
| 30 | His wife hated their life here in Munding , and what had happened in the ice-bound park at Easterness had become for her the final bitter vindication of that hate . |