Example sentences of "[verb] her in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She giggled when his second attempt ended in the same way , and when he grasped her in a great bear hug , she was able to slip away as easily as if it were a child holding her . |
| 2 | He often visited her in the early months , talking as if the passive figure in the background was n't there . |
| 3 | For as she turned towards him , a great fall of bright copper hair , loosened by the wild chase , came cascading about her shoulders and fell to her waist , enveloping her in a rippling sheet of flame . |
| 4 | With a shriek of delight she threw herself at Maggie , enveloping her in the warmest of embraces . |
| 5 | Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place . |
| 6 | He fixed her in a maddened stare and she saw the blood running from his gashed hand . |
| 7 | He found her in a small kitchen . |
| 8 | I found her in a large day-room where groups of elderly ladies sat in plastic-covered armchairs . |
| 9 | A change to teaching English to Italian children brought worse problems with ‘ il Signor Conte ’ , and a period married to a sisal farmer in Portuguese East Africa found her in the worst place on God 's earth . |
| 10 | He helped her in a two-year battle against cancer and to come to terms with her double mastectomy . |
| 11 | Then , before she realised what was happening , he fastened her in the double stirrups , binding her hands and feet . |
| 12 | ‘ Why did you agree to meet her in the first place ? ’ |
| 13 | I arranged to meet her in the tiny port at Tala-Tala where she was waiting for me . |
| 14 | The same happened at the Commonwealth Tournament later in the year — and to this day she wonders if this behaviour had something to do with the fact that the selectors did not include her in the 1984 match at Muirfield . |
| 15 | put her in a mental hospital or a |
| 16 | they put her in a bloody trolley and oh course she said , this woman said erm |
| 17 | Put her in an early grave ? |
| 18 | While Blanche tries to pass him in one of the passages he grabs her and he hurts her in the cruellest and most brutal way . |
| 19 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , Nana , ’ Martha assured her in a distracted tone . |
| 21 | ‘ He wo n't be at this place , ’ Doreen assured her in a lofty tone . |
| 22 | ‘ And there you are wrong , ’ Alain assured her in an amused voice . |
| 23 | ‘ You will not be coming back , ’ he assured her in the same arrogant tone . |
| 24 | As a lover , he had bored her , but she liked the idea of his having to steel himself to visit her in the filthy venue she had chosen for their affair . |
| 25 | Thin and tiny in stature , her back was as straight as an arrow , but her legs often pained her in the cooler winter and spring weather . |
| 26 | The popular myth paints a homely picture of the Queen Mother ducking around Diana as she schooled her in the subtle arts of royal protocol while the Queen 's senior lady-in-waiting , Lady Susan Hussey took the young woman aside for tuition in regal history . |
| 27 | Britain 's golden girl missed out by a stride on an £86,000 jackpot when arch-rival Sandra Farmer-Patrick pipped her in the 400 metres hurdles at the IAAF Grand Prix final and also won the women 's overall title . |
| 28 | He paused , eyeing her in the clinical way she 'd come to recognise . |
| 29 | She had n't guessed it would land her in the thick of a family feud . |
| 30 | Beth told her in a reproachful voice . |