Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] her on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he proposed to her on the last night I think she took him because , having been in her room for seven days , she 'd met nobody else and could n't bear to see her investment wasted . ’ |
| 2 | He knelt beside her on the hearthrug . |
| 3 | So it had come to her on the previous day , and came again now , the whiff , or stroke , of solitude , as her final hope for Patrick 's life was extinguished . |
| 4 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 5 | ‘ You must think of her on the toilet , ’ Aline said , and giggled . |
| 6 | It was an insight which came to her on the spur of the moment . |
| 7 | I speak to her on the phone almost every day and she 's really important to me . ’ |
| 8 | sit near her on the bus-bench |
| 9 | That he 'd gone out to look for her on the road and across the clunch pit field , returning alone half an hour later . |
| 10 | Why were some men waiting for her on the night she died ? |
| 11 | At some unconscious level that was exactly what she had expected six months earlier — to step off the plane and see the man of her dreams waiting for her on the tarmac . |
| 12 | The other girl made no attempt to hide her disgust as she turned back to the books lying before her on the table , and Rory felt her spirits sink still further as she headed for the door . |
| 13 | Yesterday a Teesside Crown Court jury was told by James Spencer QC , prosecuting : ‘ That lady survives today but she is permanently brain damaged and disabled and she is unable to say what happened to her on the morning on Wednesday , August 29 , 1990 . ’ |
| 14 | She asserted that she had been done out of her rights to the ownership of Mrs Ferrar 's London house , which had been promised to her on the old lady 's death . |
| 15 | Occasionally she half hoped to see him again , she would find herself watching faces rising towards her on the escalator of the Tube and wonder what she would feel if one of those faces were suddenly to be his . |
| 16 | Rosen was introduced to Katharine Hamnett by John May , a Face journalist who worked with her on the ill-fated Tomorrow , a magazine that was to be , bravely , ‘ a mix of fashion and politics ’ . |
| 17 | Nevertheless when the Sun story appeared he talked to her on the phone for an hour , her in tears . |
| 18 | He came to sit beside her on the sofa ; she felt him look at her , intently . |
| 19 | She slid across the bed , making room for Johnny to sit beside her on the mattress . |
| 20 | She swallowed a sob of pure terror at the memory and Penry jumped up to sit beside her on the bed . |
| 21 | The ribbons she laid beside her on the bed and she crushed the crown in her hands until the sharp pieces of broken straw pricked her , hurt her . |
| 22 | He thought of her on the night train to Newcastle ( where he knew of a kindly , broadminded landlady who would see her through her trouble– , and shuddered sympathetically . |
| 23 | ‘ Kerry was in front of me at the start and I went past her on the second mile , ’ she said . |
| 24 | It was the same question he had asked of her on the Ridgery , a question that put the burden of leadership on her . |
| 25 | At least she had her uncle Somerset to watch over her on the journey , and the countess of Salisbury to be a mother to her until she was handed over at Cologne to Louis . |
| 26 | ‘ And do n't worry , ’ said Megan , patting a haversack that lay beside her on the parapet . |
| 27 | Of the twenty original members it is likely that only two ( Sir Keith Joseph and Airey Neave ) voted for her on the first ballot for the leadershiP election in 1975 . |
| 28 | Frightening , really , when you think of her on the goggle-box , laying down the law . ’ |
| 29 | The metal body jumped and bucketed beneath her on the ruts . |
| 30 | Her visit produced a flowering of names associated with her on the little island , like Queen Mary 's Bower and Tree , and stories grew up that the five-year-old child began to learn Latin , Greek , Italian and other subjects there , including the art of embroidery for which she was later famous , while taking time off for gardening . |