Example sentences of "[prep] her [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'll end up running after her along the platform , bundling books and plaice and Government papers in through the window of the carriage at her as the train moves out … |
| 2 | Hordes of admirers screech that they would be only too willing to take Kylie home and look after her for a while . |
| 3 | Maurice stared after her for a moment . |
| 4 | Oh , indeed so , erm our domestic life is extraordinarily complicated but when , after my maternity leave expired and when I 'd finished having time off and breast feeding the baby , he in fact looked after her for a term in Cambridge and I came back to Sussex and taught during the week and went back to my daughter and husband at weekends , and now he 's actually taking leave in his turn , if you like , so that he can be the back-up here while I teach and do my work this year . |
| 5 | Obviously she is very upset being left alone in a strange country and we are looking after her at the police station . |
| 6 | He embarked on his career of gillie in 1849 as Prince Albert 's gillie , and was mentioned in the queen 's journal on 11 September 1849 as ‘ young J. Brown ’ who looked after her on an outing . |
| 7 | I skipped after her down the street . |
| 8 | Their mother had been forever running after her with a pencil box or an exercise book or a threepenny piece for church collection , and the maid had turned up a lost doll , a coin , a glove in every corner . |
| 9 | She left abruptly and Emily closed the door after her with a sigh of relief . |
| 10 | I looked after her as a baby , you know . |
| 11 | And so you looked after her as a housekeeper did you ? |
| 12 | She would employ 250,000 men and women in over 80 British towns and cities , and drag 1 , 006 tons of chains after her into the Clyde at her launch , but she was still 534 until the day a city went to sea and the farmer 's field was flooded across from the Glasgow Road . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought we were going to talk after this weekend , ’ Vitor demurred , strolling after her into the drawing-room . |
| 14 | Mrs Denham refused his offer , and tucked the baby under one arm , and started to drag the blanket she had been sitting on after her into the house . |
| 15 | Perhaps , thought Robert , as he trudged after her towards the iron gates , this was a signal for their lovemaking to become more decorous . |
| 16 | Later he became less abusive and rather pathetically said that he kept himself to himself , that the girl was not roaming the streets getting into trouble like the girls who went to school , that company now would be cruel and shameful to an old man who had provided her with a home , protected her and looked after her in every way . |
| 17 | Was n't he supposed to be looking after her in a sanatorium ? ’ |
| 18 | Arnie had never looked after her in the way Guido meant , performing the sort of small but pleasing acts of chivalry that seemed to come so naturally to him . |
| 19 | The winner will receive a bottle of champagne on her birthday every year and will have a vine named after her in the Veuve Clicquot vineyard . |
| 20 | She sincerely believes that her grandmother looks after her in the spirit world . |
| 21 | Alice afterwards — in an effort to safeguard her position — claimed that it was the queen who had summoned her and who had promised to look after her in the future . |
| 22 | As she sat down on the couch , Ben sat opposite her on the settle , his big body and large head topping the back of it while his short legs hardly touched the floor . |
| 23 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 24 | Our Lady of Lourdes looked at the doorway opposite her in a gesture of supplication . |
| 25 | He straightened up and pulled another chair closer , sitting opposite her in an attitude of relaxed attention . |
| 26 | One lunchtime Minton , wearing what seemed to her a hideous sweater knitted for him by his mother , sat opposite her in the school restaurant . |
| 27 | But when he came to sit opposite her in the dining-room that first evening , he felt he had made a mistake . |
| 28 | Below her on the lawn she could see the sculpted form of a stone fountain with water spilling from its lips into a fish- and lily-filled pond . |
| 29 | Then they were on the cliff road for Repulse Bay , and the sea glittered below her to the right . |
| 30 | Juliet is overpowered by passion when she first meets Romeo , and yet still considers his welfare when he is below her in the garden , and the rashness of a contract that is too sudden . |