Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] her [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Amanda was seventeen , and everywhere carried with her a sketching book as she now carried her religious pamphlets .
2 Beneath the heaven of feeling that he needed her were the remnants of pain caused by the memory of how he had looked at her the morning after they had made love .
3 But she knew , morning person or not , if Fen only felt for her the way she felt for him , she would happily be up at half-past three or even earlier , just to be with him .
4 There is the possibility of a major exhibition in Japan and here in our Salzburg house I have made for her a gallery on the second floor .
5 Maggie 's room , her own place , had been made for her the summer she was eight by Phoebe , Paul and Uncle Wong .
6 The preacher had taken a girl out to kill her , but had made of her a weapon which could be used against him .
7 Police never traced a scruffy looking man seen with her the day before she died .
8 There was on her lips the slightly sulky look he had first noticed in her the night before , but she was fighting .
9 It might be said that the museum was Mrs Gardner 's revenge ; Fenway Court , the remarkable Italian palazzo which she built well outside respectable Boston among the city 's breweries and distilleries , was named by her The Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum .
10 This was her first big opportunity to reply to the barrage of criticism and , as she saw it , ingratitude which had marred for her the celebration last May of her 10 years in office .
11 I saw her on only one day twenty-two years ago : I have thought of her every day since ; not as a lover of course ( for years past ) but as a spirit apart , unlike anyone else that ever was …
12 Maybe , briefly , he had awakened in her a craving for the wild , the dangerous , the forbidden , but whatever had happened later had cured her of that .
13 My husband took off his underpants and Jessica sat in the car with them wrapped round her the rest of the way home !
14 When Rachel had recovered from the customary burst of rage which Damian Flint so effortlessly produced in her every time she saw him , she went out on to the terrace , putting on a brave smile for her father .
15 The demanding owner , Signora Caridi , insists on high standards and has drawn around her a team of staff dedicated to providing simple , spotless accommodation and friendly service .
16 I did like Esmerelda ( even if I thought her name was a bit soppy ) and played with her a lot when she came to stay .
17 And , now she had found him , there was born in her the need to give .
18 The defendants knew that the actress was aged 34 and was of normal weight and appearance : the article had heaped upon her the kind of reckless insults which could not have reflected an honest opinion .
19 And he had once elicited from her the statement , ‘ I did not have what the English refer to as ‘ a good war ’ . ’
20 The journey set in her a taste for such journeys that she was never to lose .
21 He helped her to her feet , anxiously dusting her coat , apologizing , undistressed , so courteous and unconfused that she felt that he had conferred upon her a favour , and to her amazement she heard her own voice answering , with equal , answering ease , assuring him that no , she was not hurt , no , of course it was not his fault , yes , it certainly was the roughest she had ever known it .
22 The scarf was simply to protect her hair-do in that open vehicle as it bowled along at a business-like sixty kilometres per hour and , with the sunglasses , conferred upon her a touch of the Jackie Kennedy chic to which she was innocent enough to aspire .
23 The woman laid before her a pot of coffee , a jug of orange juice and a dish of piping hot rolls and croissants .
24 In Mozart 's opera The Magic Flute , there is a Queen of the Night , a sinister but magnificent figure , who demands that birds be caught and brought to her every day .
25 Her murderous dreams had then seemed to her the hallucinations of a soul mad with grief .
26 The task of organizing her grandmother 's funeral had fallen to her a couple of years before and , although the present situation was bound to be more complicated , she had a fair idea of the steps Veronica would need to take .
27 She was constantly watched by photographers and reporters while newspapers commented on her every action .
28 It was explained to her the day they moved in . ’
29 Publications in the 1960s , such as Honest to God and Toward a Quaker View of Sex , represented for her the encroachment or infiltration of a new moral orthodoxy into the Church itself .
30 He had saddled for her a calm , unflustered mare and they hacked peacefully along remarking on the hardness of the ground , the atrophied crops and other manifestations of summer .
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