Example sentences of "[vb past] her [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , when they turned out on to the main road , Luke overtook her with an authoritative toot . |
| 2 | Lucy spent just three days in intensive care before doctors moved her to an ordinary ward at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital . |
| 3 | Her investments provided her with an annual income of well over a million dollars , in addition to the trusts and investments left to her directly by her husband . |
| 4 | Straightening up , Roman regarded her with an unreadable expression . |
| 5 | He stopped her with an impatient gesture . |
| 6 | It twisted and turned and bore her into an ominous and derelict suburb , stark in the orange street lights . |
| 7 | The rapist approached the 17-year-old waitress in a bus station at Holmfirth , West Yorks , and subjected her to an hour-long ordeal . |
| 8 | ‘ And there you are wrong , ’ Alain assured her in an amused voice . |
| 9 | Simmons signalled her to an empty chair on the fringe of the disputatious group , and walked round the back of the table to take a chair opposite . |
| 10 | Someone interviewed her for an Italian magazine — they 're doing a piece about her family , or so she says . |
| 11 | The scents from the sodden earth filled her with an intolerable weight of memory ; not that of individual occasions but of the entire past . |
| 12 | In the end she decided that she did not like being a sightseer : the role filled her with an obscure rage . |
| 13 | The thought of it filled her with an immense regret because a child could not stay a child there would be men ( a man she hoped ) in Nicandra 's life , Aunt Tossie thought with pity and some disgust — her mind scampered hurriedly from the contemplation of a subject not forbidden so much as not existing for her . |
| 14 | The streets of the city welcomed her as an old friend as she made her way unerringly towards the brilliantly lit entrance of Tivoli . |
| 15 | She wanted to check , but Sharpe pushed her through a gap in a straggling hedgerow and spurred her across an undulating pasture which , years before , had been under the plough and the old furrows still formed corrugations that faced Sharpe like waves of pale grass . |
| 16 | He followed her with an easy stride , blocked her escape , looming very tall and dark above her . |
| 17 | Somewhere on another plane of existence she knew that he was pacing himself , tuning himself to her slower needs : that his tiny muted cries of painful frustration were evidence of his consideration as he aroused her to an aching , trembling plateau of desire . |
| 18 | Dieter guided her to an empty chair ; she was trembling violently and he called for brandy . |
| 19 | Having had the good fortune to fall in with Gabriel outside Cat 's Coffee Shop as she was on her way home , he had seized his chance and asked her for an early supper . |
| 20 | Whether or not her swingometer led her to an appropriate purchasing decision , he has n't heard ; in fact , she was dowsing only the organic wines , so it was n't a completely random process . |
| 21 | Placing a hand on her shoulder , he led her to an ornate , gilded mirror hanging above the carved stone fireplace . |
| 22 | I supervised her professional training while she was working at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute at Penicuik , and appointed her as an Assistant Librarian at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh just over a year ago . |
| 23 | I do n't know what it was , but I instantly fingered her for an obvious goer , sack-artist , dick-idolator , and so on . |
| 24 | He treated her like an incompetent subaltern . |
| 25 | I saw her through an open doorway . |
| 26 | Because the story took her into an exotic , adult world , she enjoyed it . |
| 27 | Sheffield Crown Court heard that the man , who ca n't be named for legal reasons , kidnapped his twenty seven year old wife and took her to an isolated spot on the moors above the city and raped and sexually assaulted her . |
| 28 | It brought her to an abrupt halt on legs that felt suddenly weak , and several small gasps of dismay escaped her . |
| 29 | Miranda and Angus sat in a velvet-lined , crimson booth that reminded her of an old-fashioned railway carriage . |
| 30 | ‘ Alice Muir , ’ he writes , ‘ was a homeopathist and in 1878 treated old Mrs McNeil at the Boathouse in Brodick so successfully that two years later the latter presented her with an engraved tumbler glass . ’ |