Example sentences of "[prep] her [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would look after her with loving care , Mr Wormwood , and I would pay for everything . |
| 2 | She walked away with a poise unmatched by any woman of his acquaintance , and he stared after her with angry fascination . |
| 3 | Jealous of Lubor ? ’ and did n't know where she was when , as if he did n't think much of sitting opposite her in one chair while she had the huge couch all to herself , Ven suddenly moved from his chair and came and sat down next to her on the couch . |
| 4 | ‘ How interesting , ’ he murmured , moving towards her with total self-assurance in every step . |
| 5 | The riverbank rushed towards her with dizzying speed as the stiffness in her legs caused her stumble and lose her balance on the uneven ground . |
| 6 | Her sisters-in-law excluded her from their gossip ; the servants behaved towards her with greater formality and at least once a day she was summoned to Dona Marguerita 's room to sit with her and listen to her talking about the family 's history and her hopes and ambitions for João . |
| 7 | He came towards her with outstretched hand . |
| 8 | Although his head and body are bent towards her in paternal concern , their tension indicates that he wants to be elsewhere ; away from hysterical females , generally , and , in particular , at his lunchdate with the Chinese antique dealer who has hinted over the telephone that he has some particularly fine pieces of Ban Chieng that the National Museum will never see hidden away in his back room . |
| 9 | Cadfael hoped and thought his prayers towards her in resigned humility , but always in good north Welsh , the Welsh of Gwynedd . |
| 10 | Rosa thought of the Madonna , and thanked her , thanked her with a welling passion of gratitude such as even she had never felt towards her before that Tommaso had not taken advantage of her total willingness and that she was still intact — no one would be able to say anything against her.They could examine her if they wanted , those witches could paddle inside her to make sure . |
| 11 | He thought of her with shocked tenderness and a kind of sad humility . |
| 12 | She 's had a hectic Christmas — one long round of shopping , cleaning and cooking for the entire family , including Malc 's brother and his wife and his mother , who has become confused and forgetful since Dad 's death and Lynda has taken care of her with selfless dedication . |
| 13 | He does n't talk of her with any affection . ’ |
| 14 | 's father was master of her at one stage . |
| 15 | Her duties were n't merely confined to waitressing however ; like all the girls at The Haven she did whatever was required of her from changing bed linen to washing dishes . |
| 16 | Amelia 's unsubtle lust for him darted out of her like static electricity . |
| 17 | We 've got no sighting of her after first thing Saturday morning . ’ |
| 18 | After her death , he 'd moved out into one of the back rooms , and Aunt Ruth — although she supposed she 'd have to stop thinking of her in that way — had taken the other . |
| 19 | Would you believe that the sight of her in that condition made me feel differently about her ? |
| 20 | For him these first moments of meeting each day were so exciting an elixir that he always tried to make them last as long as possible , and the sight of her in full flight on her bicycle never failed to set his blood tingling . |
| 21 | Miss Groundwater — he found that he thought of her in this way again , as a fillip to rage — was seated at her mirror , already in her nightgown , brushing out her hair . |
| 22 | So , for example if somebody does reject a young man in a way that erm is n't appropriate in his eyes , he might then go around and start calling her all sorts of names and generally making other men think of her in bad way , and of course no eighteen year old woman wants young men to think badly of her , and so she puts pressure on herself not to reject advances too openly or too obviously or something like that , and the whole cycle starts again , and so and I think this is the sort of thing the college just can not have anything to do with , because that really is going too far , that 's interfering with the the one thing we could do , perhaps , is talk to the young women and make it clear that they do have the right to reject advances and that what they 've got to be concerned about whilst they 're at university is they 're academic career and making sure that that is n't affected by harassment . |
| 23 | Sabrina , with a string of saloon car races under her belt , felt she would be best qualified to drive until Graham tactlessly reminded her of her near fatal crash at Le Mans . |
| 24 | Isabelle must have left a legacy of frightening bitterness behind her in this place in order to set off a reaction like that . |
| 25 | We went sort of walk behind her like brown cow , you know ! |
| 26 | All day this shadow grew in her mind and by the time school was over and she was running along the railway line , it seemed to be running behind her like some dark , winged creature . |
| 27 | But the rigour of the criminal law is relaxed in her favour by the provision of the same Act that , on a charge against her for any offence , other than treason or murder , it is a good defence to prove that the offence was committed in the presence of and under the coercion of her husband . |
| 28 | ‘ But I did n't hold it against her in any way . ’ |
| 29 | Being able to capitalize part of her pension would allow her to present herself at one of the main building societies with a deposit , to halve her housing costs , and begin acquiring a capital asset that would last with her into old age . |
| 30 | Dennis , who was down to ride work with her on another twoyear-old smiled with open hostility as they made their way up to the gallops . |