Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] her in the " in BNC.

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1 When he goes out there to wait for her in the evening , I sometimes think : It is n't Rosa .
2 She sincerely believes that her grandmother looks after her in the spirit world .
3 Arnie had never looked after her in the way Guido meant , performing the sort of small but pleasing acts of chivalry that seemed to come so naturally to him .
4 And then , the enormous figure with rust-coloured moustaches walking towards her in the hall .
5 A spider the size of her thumbnail dropped past her in the gloom , its legs brushing her cheek .
6 I knew she was registered at Essex , I knew she was basically dishonest , a boozer , a feminist and — from the brief glimpse I 'd caught of her in the Mimosa Club — no featherweight .
7 He had sat with her in the long dark evenings , had made sure she ate at mealtimes .
8 Although Blanche had been sad standing there in Mother 's empty flat , she had been overtaken then by the same feeling she sensed come over her in the interrogation room that night after Taczek had left .
9 Discussing Arnie with Guido did n't appeal to her in the least .
10 I can remember only walking beside her in the dusk towards Regent 's Park , because we both wanted darkness and to be alone .
11 When I go past , I wonder what has been happening to her in the intervening years , and that 's very odd . ’
12 He had come to her in the night .
13 On the premise that ‘ too many cooks spoil the broth ’ , he asks us to reiterate that day to day management of the Village is in the hands of the Warden , Mrs. Pat Holmes , and any guidance , questions or advice on such matters should be addressed to her in the first instance .
14 The dancers , from what Lucy had seen , were all pretty good in their way ; she 'd even begun to develop a liking for Maurice , who 'd winked at her in the corridor earlier .
15 First of all , it seems that the housewife 's resentment of her long working hours is located by her in the context of a comparison between her own and her husband 's situation .
16 But when he came to sit opposite her in the dining-room that first evening , he felt he had made a mistake .
17 He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking .
18 I have also heard a story , however , about her being distinctly unamused by some of the things written about her in the newspapers .
19 The winner will receive a bottle of champagne on her birthday every year and will have a vine named after her in the Veuve Clicquot vineyard .
20 ‘ I do n't know how you can even speak of her in the same breath . ’
21 So the Bangles disbanded and Hoffs walked into the sunset , a thousand corporate cheque books glinting behind her in the sun 's twilight glow .
22 ‘ If you wish to sit up talking with Claudine , however , or walk with her in the moonlight … ’
23 Berndt said , as though it were his incisive wit alone which had arrived at the nub , ‘ The question is , what do we do with her in the meantime ?
24 And Theodora recounted her meeting with her in the drive at the Julians ' house .
25 it 's still the first one , she 's got a billion things to do , we 'll obviously speak to her in the autumn , erm
26 It did n't matter to her in the least .
27 His opinion of her work , like his opinion of her as a person , really should n't matter to her in the slightest .
28 Maria stood there , hating him , but not for anything he had done to her in the past .
29 Picasso 's grand-daughter , Marina , is selling forty-eight of his works which came to her in the share-out among the family of his estate , and which are normally kept at the Geneva freeport warehouse .
30 Her mother had stopped crocheting , so Jessie said , and was in the sitting-room going through a catalogue of curtain material for yet another change at the windows and had decided firmly against anything resembling Nottingham Lace ; her mind was now set on drapes with pelmets , so Jessie had whispered to her in the back shop a short while ago .
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