Example sentences of "[verb] her [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isa Blagden found her weeping over this one afternoon and took the time to console her , pointing out that soon , in her new position , Oreste would join her and at two years of age would quickly become hers again . |
| 2 | Times I 've , I 've sat up at the window trying to wa watch her coming round two o'clock in the morning hoping that he 's fallen asleep down in the armchair . |
| 3 | But I can sense her blossoming into that relaxed wakefulness you can get in the quiet hours . |
| 4 | He could feel her seething with suppressed anger . |
| 5 | Then he was pulling her down over him , turning her in his arms , twining her limbs around his own , filling up her emptiness , tending her craving with all the knowledge he possessed . |
| 6 | She could feel a coolness on her brow , and would have reached up her fingers to find out what was there , but that she was possessed by a lassitude that prevented her moving at all . |
| 7 | And of course I 've seen her blazing in that dress of hers when she kicked off against someone . |
| 8 | Well I ca n't see her living on five pound a week can you ? |
| 9 | ‘ I can see her going for that , ’ he said . |
| 10 | She said she sometimes longed to go out , to a disco or an amusement arcade and be with other girls , but her uncle was strict and did n't like her going to those places , and although she was sometimes lonely she could n't stand the thought of going back to that school , especially now she had been away from it for so long because anyway her friends would n't be there any more and she would be treated like a little girl and the things they had to do would seem more stupid than ever because in her uncle s house she was treated like a grown-up , which she was anyway , and she ran the house . |
| 11 | It was distressing to hear her talking like that . |
| 12 | It would have to be something of value to justify her going to all this trouble . |
| 13 | D' you think I should stop her singing in that club ? ’ |
| 14 | One of the radio control room operators heard her screaming in uncontrollable agony over the airwaves . |
| 15 | mm , I heard her talking to one of the lads , I think the dark hair , short , what 's his name ? |
| 16 | Wavebreaker was the flagship of Cutwater 's fleet and McIllvanney liked to see her sparkling before each charter . |
| 17 | Ginny smoothed her hands on her dress and got her breathing under some sort of control . |
| 18 | It was fabulous , seeing her sitting in that heap of consumer capitalist garbage , pure , unmoved , like a flame , burning for the cause . ’ |
| 19 | To her dismay , hot tears burned her eyes in frustration at the physical weakness that kept her kneeling in such a submissive attitude at his feet for several more seconds . |
| 20 | A mixture of gratitude and pity held her captive through many a long , polite , sad , dull declaration of admiration , and kept her smiling through many an impolite drunken assault on her brassiere straps . |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't ask me , missis ; all I know , wherever she went on those nights , she 'd leave here at half-past six and it was lucky if the clock saw her coming in that door at half-past eleven at night . ’ |
| 22 | According to Robyn ( or , more precisely , according to the writers who have influenced her thinking on these matters ) , there is no such thing as the ‘ self ’ on which capitalism and the classic novel are founded — that is to say , a finite , unique soul or essence that constitutes a person 's identity ; there is only a subject position in an infinite web of discourses — the discourses of power , sex , family , science , religion , poetry , etc . |
| 23 | No longer that terrible clattering of clogs in the street to wake her every morning and start her thinking about all those poor people and those ragged little children hurrying to the mill . |
| 24 | An SAR helicopter of the Army Air Corps and an RAF Nimrod began a search , and at 0015 on Friday 9 March William Luckin slipped her mooring with Second Coxswain/Mechanic John O'Donnell in command . |
| 25 | Giovanna had recently taken her shopping among some of the newly reopened antique shops in the city and had persuaded her to buy a pair of small tortoiseshell combs . |
| 26 | I just wonder whether erm I think that stool there might have been better to have her sitting on that one , not quite so high up and she could have adopted a more comfortable pose and she would n't have needed another prop for her foot . |
| 27 | She awaited her coming with mixed feelings . |
| 28 | He usually left her feeling like that . |
| 29 | Before he could answer , the doorbell rang , and after one more astonished glance at Jenna 's furious face he strode out of the room to answer it , leaving her struggling with odd feelings . |
| 30 | That would n't help her thinking at all , and was n't that why she was here ? |