Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russian into business.Market stalls might not hold that much interest for the average Briton , but for Ekaterina Likhoda from Nizhni Tagil in the Russian Urals , ( see below , far right with South Wales Society president Paul Marshall — also pictured on the far left are Ekaterina 's interpreter , Olga Lewis , and Michelle Thomson , owner of the fruit stall ) it was all part of an unusual business-study trip arranged for her by the Institute 's General Practitioner Board . |
| 2 | A storm of pain ripped through her like the indigo fingers of a tornado and carried her out on to a midnight sea . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A spider the size of her thumbnail dropped past her in the gloom , its legs brushing her cheek . |
| 6 | I knew she was registered at Essex , I knew she was basically dishonest , a boozer , a feminist and — from the brief glimpse I 'd caught of her in the Mimosa Club — no featherweight . |
| 7 | Her father had sat with her through the nights , holding her hands , comforting her , robbing himself of sleep to be with her and help her through the worst of it . |
| 8 | He had sat with her in the long dark evenings , had made sure she ate at mealtimes . |
| 9 | She kicked out at him as he covered her body with his but he held her tight and rolled with her into the protection of the trees . |
| 10 | This was meant to be the moment of her greatest satisfaction , when she unleashed on him all the bitterness and resentment that she had carried inside her over the years . |
| 11 | A wonderful change had come over her since the episode with the cockchafers . |
| 12 | Although Blanche had been sad standing there in Mother 's empty flat , she had been overtaken then by the same feeling she sensed come over her in the interrogation room that night after Taczek had left . |
| 13 | So it had come to her on the previous day , and came again now , the whiff , or stroke , of solitude , as her final hope for Patrick 's life was extinguished . |
| 14 | He had come to her in the night . |
| 15 | On the premise that ‘ too many cooks spoil the broth ’ , he asks us to reiterate that day to day management of the Village is in the hands of the Warden , Mrs. Pat Holmes , and any guidance , questions or advice on such matters should be addressed to her in the first instance . |
| 16 | The dancers , from what Lucy had seen , were all pretty good in their way ; she 'd even begun to develop a liking for Maurice , who 'd winked at her in the corridor earlier . |
| 17 | I might have looked at her outside the church and seen just another assembly-line bride . |
| 18 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 19 | First of all , it seems that the housewife 's resentment of her long working hours is located by her in the context of a comparison between her own and her husband 's situation . |
| 20 | Apparently she then picked herself up and in fact ran from the scene but Mrs did n't stop and did n't make enquiries as to who the girl was and neither was the matter reported by her to the police in due course . |
| 21 | The Queen 's speech at the opening of parliament is of course written for her by the government of the day . |
| 22 | Another is a concerto written for her by the British composer Derek Bourgeois . |
| 23 | I have also heard a story , however , about her being distinctly unamused by some of the things written about her in the newspapers . |
| 24 | A sharp pang shot through her at the thought of Dana travelling alone with Roman . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't you know what time — ’ she began , but already , somehow , he had moved past her into the dimly lit office and was standing confidently at her drawing-board , casually eyeing the plan that she had been working on . |
| 27 | She also became a celebrated beauty through the depictions made of her by the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron [ q.v. ] and the painters Brown , D. G. Rossetti , Burne-Jones , and Val Prinsep [ q.v . ] . |
| 28 | On Dec. 31 , 1989 , Aquino announced sweeping Cabinet changes in an attempt to deal with some of the charges made against her by the rebel soldiers , with nine new appointees taking over key government posts [ see p. 37121 ] . |
| 29 | And Sheffield Crown Court has heard how a man allegedly kidnapped and raped his wife ; the man who ca n't be named for legal reasons , was separated from her at the time of the supposed attack , and the case is making legal history . |
| 30 | A framed certificate was presented to her at the Good Companions ' meeting last week by chairman Janet Gill . |