Example sentences of "[verb] them [prep] her [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ever-cautious Margaret Beckett is no longer on the left by any definition but her own , but she knows that she can not win the votes of a majority of MPs , let alone constituency members , without reminding them of her leftwing roots . |
| 2 | Doody notes that Leapor picks up Swift 's characters or anti-characters and turns them to her own purposes . |
| 3 | She caught sight of the children and , in a sudden paroxysm of words , tried to admonish them in her own language interspersed with Arabic , while announcing breakfast to me in English . |
| 4 | Lovely face , Jo has , despite the lines and paleness , dark hair and blue eyes , says she got them from her wild Irish grandmother . |
| 5 | Jessamy had known straight away that nothing would ever throw her off balance , that she would deal with life 's disasters and crises in a calm , dispassionate way , finally resolving them to her own satisfaction . |
| 6 | ‘ I was angry ! ’ he admitted , thrusting his hands into the pockets of his trousers as he studied her , his eyes traversing her slender form , raking over the tangle of dark hair , her susceptible grey eyes , her full , sensual mouth , before lowering them in slow appraisal of her trim figure then returning them to her querulous expression . |
| 7 | Five people who 've been nominated for awards are not available to receive them from her Royal Highness . |
| 8 | We sat stuffing ourselves with smoked-salmon sandwiches , slurping Earl Grey , while she charmed and intimidated them with her stolen airs and purloined graces . |
| 9 | On the other hand , requiring the child to reproduce phrases and sentences may lead to a lower level of performance as the child seeks to make sense of the adult constructions and in doing so reinterprets them through her own emerging system of grammatical rules . |
| 10 | ‘ I put them in her cardi pocket . |
| 11 | Rose had entered the newsagent at that very moment , and Sally-Anne , acting with characteristic speed , had swept up her photograph and one of Mrs Langtry , and , putting the second one on top , she had handed them over to buy them with her hard-earned pennies . |
| 12 | Weightless with introspection she observed her hands as she had in the Big Bamboo , with their veins like injured worms — big , workaday hands — and hid them between her army-surplus thighs . |
| 13 | " Well , " said Grace , " we 've grown very attached to you , Miranda and I. " She turned his hands over , still holding them in her own . |
| 14 | But she was quite ready to assign her nuclear units to a NATO Multinational Force ; indeed , she was , in effect , already doing so through the joint targeting of her V-bombers with the US Strategic Air Command , subject to her right to use them for her own purposes if vital national interests were at stake . |
| 15 | As soon as they are born , she takes them into her huge jaws where they lie in pouches as she carries them back down the river . |
| 16 | After what seemed an age , she felt Kattina 's open mouth close over her own , breathing quietly against her lips before licking them with her long tongue . |
| 17 | That was how she 'd done it — she 'd touched them with her warm love and it had been too much for the Worm 's heart of hatred . |
| 18 | To make matters even more wretched than they already were , Celia cried both day and night and because of Liza 's deepening depression Harriet found it was she who was forced to bear the brunt of this , so much so that after a while she simply swept up baby and cot and took them into her own bedroom . |
| 19 | Yes , all day and if I 'm not you can leave them with her next door — her bark 's worse than her bite . ’ |
| 20 | There were candles and matches on a ledge just inside the front door where she had left them on her last visit , for Lydia was in fact a sufficiently practical person and not the ass she sometimes chose to appear . |
| 21 | ‘ And I loved the ending , ’ she added quickly , turning back to face them with her familiar , brilliant smile in place , ‘ with the hero playing himself for once in a crowd of clowns , as though he could only be real in an unreal world and vice versa … . |
| 22 | ‘ Thanks , ’ said Jenny , taking the traveller 's cheques from Adam and putting them into her flying jacket . |
| 23 | Harriet had put them in her smaller guest-room which had a double bed . |
| 24 | She puts them in her large collection of books as bookmarks . |
| 25 | Mary Read , who had first worked in New York in 1916 with the Sunshine Girls , endeared herself to reporters by telling them of her great love of the city . |
| 26 | I used to do that , I used to get up in the morning and they were fucking gone , she had them on her fucking arse . |
| 27 | The law had them in her cloudy embrace and was spilling out of their eyes and lips her deathly must . |
| 28 | The two men told Mrs Robinson to take them to her rich friends . |
| 29 | She had reached the landing by this stage of her deliberations , remarking , as she did so , that the fitted carpet , which had covered them in her own time , had gone . |
| 30 | She seemed so sanguine that he started to enjoy his leave and they all three went off to see Mona in Jermyn Street , who greeted them with her usual generous hospitality , very little of which was at her or their expense , but who had not seen Charles since his transformation from 2nd Lieutenant to Guardsman . |