Example sentences of "[adj] a [noun] [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was too good a cook and I was too faithful a disciple of her art Just lounging by our bed-sitter 's fireside was the sweetest of all occupations . |
| 2 | They spent their evenings together in a trattoria on the square beside the Ponte Milvio or down in Trastevere , before a couple of hours at his place , or half a night at her apartment . |
| 3 | Now it 's been found in a river half a mile from her home . |
| 4 | Tell her there will be half a pie for her tea otherwise she do n't get none . |
| 5 | She clutched a black shawl above a patched and shabby skirt , her eyes sunken in her gaunt face , and on an impulse he put half a crown in her hand and hurried away . |
| 6 | He felt ashamed of her , and he could not work out why her mother should have such a smile on her face . |
| 7 | She had apparently already put such a proposition to her mother on the telephone . |
| 8 | And with that she turned on him herself and raising up her wings struck him such a blow with her talons that he rolled back out of control in the air , the tops of the pine trees below spinning before his eyes . |
| 9 | Friday had come round so quickly again — such a contrast to her old life when the week had often seemed boringly endless . |
| 10 | She owed that to him at least for having been , over the years , such a disappointment to her father . |
| 11 | She was such a heroine in her own way because it was not possible to give her the attention and comfort she deserved yet she never complained . |
| 12 | Normally she would never have allowed such a thing on her own doorstep , but with the street lights out and only a few candles glimmering , no one would see . |
| 13 | Ann would never have taken such a step of her own accord . |
| 14 | Women may find her image within themselves , or see her reflected in a mythical , historical or living person who carries such a quality in her being . |
| 15 | Jaq sincerely hoped that she felt obliged to make such a demand by her own code of honour rather than that the demand was due to an abrupt , intrinsic sense of genuine worthlessness . |
| 16 | It was dreadful to her to think that Rose was an amateur tart earning such a pittance in her legitimate work that she was ready to sell herself for so little . |
| 17 | And ‘ satisfactory ’ was arguably too favourable a judgement on her circumstances . |
| 18 | More disturbingly , in The Mask ( 1945 ) ( Fig. 7 ) , she throws doubt on too straightforward a reading of her self-portraits as revealing of her inner emotions . |
| 19 | The unaccustomed air of the realms above — ; Too sharp , too rich a mixture for her shrunk lungs — ; He stopped and said ‘ One last thing I must show you . |
| 20 | Mary-Claude was in Lebanon with Sarah having too good a time with her family for him to wish to cut it short . |
| 21 | All a ploy on her part , I 'm sure , to help pass their day . |
| 22 | Abigail 's door was ajar and he went into the room , bringing a segment of light with him , a triangle that fell short a yard from her cot . |
| 23 | She expected Urquhart but found first a message from her brother inviting her down for the weekend . |
| 24 | The maintenance of this imperium has become not only an essential pillar of the regime 's internal legitimacy , but as essential a pillar of her external legitimacy as a Superpower . |
| 25 | But we 're worried a bit about her state of mind . |
| 26 | She had a round face , round eyes which she rolled and raised to the ceiling while she spake ( spoke was too mundane a term for her pronouncements ) and she invariably began these pronouncements with ‘ Whooo — ’ to which Jane mentally added ‘ To-whit-too-whoo ’ , and concluded that there must be an owl species called Shurll . |
| 27 | Physically she had to admit he still turned her on and probably always would , but , having found out just how irritating he could be to live with she was furious to discover that his sex appeal was far too potent a force for her feelings to be seriously affected , no matter how cross with him she felt at the moment . |
| 28 | The Queen reportedly earns more than £6 million a year from her £6.5 billion assets . |
| 29 | Her red suit was smart , but too bright a colour for her pale English pink and white skin , her brown hair could have done with a wash and her nails were ragged and bitten . |