Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] her in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says a man tried to abduct her in similar circumstances around the time of the murder . |
| 2 | I was fourteen then , I 'd seen her in National Velvet , and had been barmy about her ever since . |
| 3 | It will certainly seem so to the Englishman ( as I take him to be ) , who found in the ‘ Envoi ’ to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley — Pound 's most explicit farewell to England , as he prepared to leave her in 1918 — ‘ externality : an externality which , considering what Mauberley attempts , is utterly disabling ’ . |
| 4 | And there was a vigour about him , a brightness of eye , an easiness about the way he held himself , that almost seemed to threaten her in some indefinable way . |
| 5 | He never forgot how it had once been , never seemed to regard her in any other way but as the person who had cared for him and loved him without reservation . |
| 6 | and I , I went to see her in open evening , I could n't understand her , cos she you know , she real , I mean she is French |
| 7 | Well apparently she said stands her in good stead because |
| 8 | Whenever the two women were together , the conflict of loyalties had torn her in two . |
| 9 | Those who had seen her in this mood before faded quietly out of reach ; others got their fingers burnt . |
| 10 | Believe me , if I had seen her in any other place , I would have dismissed her as a witch from a mummer 's play . |
| 11 | Basquiat 's estate , administered by his accountant father , still faces lawsuits from a dealer asking for $900,000 for three paintings Basquiat had promised her in 1982 but never delivered . |
| 12 | And as he held his finger to his lips , she remembered that he had told her in strict confidence that the complex belonged to him . |
| 13 | Nobody had helped her in this wonderful , cultured city . |
| 14 | She had phoned in sick straight after she 'd got home that dreadful morning and spent the next couple of days trying to come to terms with what had happened , but there was no way she could ever accept what Luke had done , how he had used her in that unscrupulous way . |
| 15 | As he moved away , Shannon sent a silent stream of curses after the mischievous imp in her soul which had landed her in this , desperately trying to remember the instructions she 'd skimmed through in the beginners ' ‘ learn-to-ski ’ handbook Kelly had given her . |
| 16 | He had found her in one of the outlying villages . |
| 17 | Olga , the brighter of the two , had clamoured to be allowed to go to college in Tollemarche , and both parents had encouraged her in this , hoping she would become a school-teacher ; but she had met Boyd Stych and got married instead . |
| 18 | The people who had put her in such a tizzy were a solicitor , a computer analyst and someone in advertising . |
| 19 | Her evidence was that being interviewed by two senior police officers had put her in considerable fear and trepidation and that her confession was accordingly not a true one . |
| 20 | Lizzy 's butter-wouldn't-melt-in-her-mouth image had kept her in good stead the last few years , but soon she wanted to break away . |
| 21 | The girls ' parents had held her in high regard and they had become firm friends . |
| 22 | It seemed incredible now that Luke had held her in those heart-rocking moments , that the hands which were now thrust deeply into his pockets had caressed her until she was torn with longing . |
| 23 | Flora Macdonald 's fancy , Allan , had married her in 1750 when she was twenty-eight . |
| 24 | It was as if he wanted to destroy her in some way . |
| 25 | He also wanted to dress her in warm wraps , soft furs and the finest of leather boots . |