Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] her [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a way she was happy that Harry had chosen to come to her in his distress , yet it highlighted his attitude towards her . |
| 2 | They had stayed together ever since , and Nick referred to her as his ‘ partner ’ . |
| 3 | She ran as hard as she could , and the wolf came after her on his long grey legs . |
| 4 | ‘ M-m … ’ was as far as she could stammer , for , in the next instant , Naylor was looking past her at his uncle . |
| 5 | Filled with love , she longed to run towards him , but controlled the impulse ; then , when he came towards her with his hand outstretched , her heart felt swollen with joy . |
| 6 | Now he came towards her with his hands outstretched . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm hoping to see something of Czechoslovakia while I 'm here , ’ she replied , but as it suddenly struck her that the silence emanating from Ven Gajdusek was decidedly chilly — and since the last thing she needed was to be bad friends with him if he objected to Lubor Ondrus flirting with her on his time , ‘ But now I must return to my hotel , ’ she added . |
| 8 | He would be grateful and loving to her throughout his life . |
| 9 | He was aware of how professional he must appear to her in his preparations for what she saw as killing and which he had been trained to see as protection of the innocent . |
| 10 | Rubbing his palm across her skin , he slipped his thumb under the top of her brief bikini panties , but as he did so , he made that same quick exclamation of surprise and moved away from her slightly , looking at her with his dark brows drawn sharply together . |
| 11 | To feel him touching her , to see him looking at her with his heart washed clean of all the old hatred . |
| 12 | He stood looking at her in his dark , gloomy way . |
| 13 | He had advanced upon her with his fist clenched , wanting to kill her . |
| 14 | as if he had read her thoughts , the man turned to her with his glass raised . |
| 15 | Slowly he stripped the black thread from his fingers , peering at her through his glasses as if wondering who she was . |
| 16 | He walked towards her with his hands outstretched , and she clasped them warmly before she thought about what she was doing . |
| 17 | He had called to her in his dying moments , and she had thrown him a fragment of her white nightgown , which he had clasped with hope , and kissed , and kept as a precious icon . |
| 18 | ‘ You … you little cheat ! ’ the father suddenly shouted , pointing at her with his finger . |
| 19 | Abruptly he jerked away from her , no longer touching her although still kneeling before her with his head bent . |
| 20 | But there was no time now to speculate on that rather sinister connection , for Luke Travis was coming towards her with his brisk , certain step . |
| 21 | She could feel them coming towards her from his eyes and his smile , but they were different now , quieter , triumphant . |
| 22 | As Minton 's letters reveal , he chatted with her about his visits to Bristol to make advertisement drawings for the Imperial Smelting Corporation ( Colour Plate VII ) , about Michael Ayrton 's ‘ maddening ’ article , ‘ Picasso , Master of Pastiche ’ in Penguin New Writing and about Geoffrey Grigson 's Samuel Palmer : the Visionary Years which the students at Camberwell gave him when he left in December 1947 : What is absent in Minton 's letters to Edie Lamont is any hint of his riotous social life . |
| 23 | But when Clift confided in her about his homosexual tendencies , she referred him to a colleague whom she felt could help him infinitely more than she could . |
| 24 | In a record of a grant of land in Thanet in January 690 to Aebbe ( Eafe ) , daughter of Eormenred and now abbess of Minster-in-Thanet , Oswine refers to her as his kinswoman ( CS 35 : S 13 ) , and in another charter granting land to Aebbe which had once belonged to Eormenred he expresses gratitude at his restoration to the kingdom of his fathers ( CS 40 : S 14 ) . |
| 25 | Cleese , 52 , fell for her after his divorce two years ago from his second wife , film director Barbara Trentham . |
| 26 | He still thought of her as his ‘ new ’ wife even though the wedding was now a two-year-old memory . |
| 27 | He reached towards her with his strong hands and pressed them down on the fine-boned structure of her shoulders , massaging with rhythmic , kneading movements . |
| 28 | It is a movement he has used many times and which is perhaps seen at its best in the pas de deux to the Meditation from Thai-s created for Anthony Dowell and Antoinette Sibley ; in A Month in the Country when Natalia dances with the Tutor to express her emotions ; and in Les Deux Pigeons in the final pas de deux , when the Young Man has returned to The Girl and tenderly dances with her in his arms ( see page 83 ) . |
| 29 | But despite the happiness that surged within her at his words , Folly hesitated . |
| 30 | He looked from her to his brother , his mouth open , about to speak . |