Example sentences of "her [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her granny , who had been a Brownie Guider a long time ago , had told her about how a Brownie smiles instead of crying when in trouble . |
| 2 | I had n't seen her since when we were on remand , and then we both got sentenced and got sent to different prisons , so I had n't seen her for nearly a year . |
| 3 | Francesca sounded rattled and hostile , and McLeish gazed at the wall , wondering if he had really been in love with her for over a year . |
| 4 | I did n't notice at first ; I saw her walking down the street in front of me , and without any hesitation I knew who it was — I had n't seen her for over a year , she had cut her hair off short and was wearing a dress , but I knew . |
| 5 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 6 | I knew you would n't mind having her for just a fortnight . ’ |
| 7 | He was acquitted on the ground that ‘ he had her for almost a year with her goodwill . ’ |
| 8 | goes to her for quite a while and she was saying , Oh I do n't think Shavina likes me . |
| 9 | ‘ When she started staying with friends I would not see her for about a week or so , but I was not concerned . |
| 10 | I was with her for about an hour . |
| 11 | He must , for had n't she let him make love to her after just a handful of meetings , when they hardly knew each other ? |
| 12 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |
| 13 | She felt as if she had been woken from a deep sleep and was conscious of pulling her mind back , painfully , as if it had been a kite out there , held to her by only a string . |