Example sentences of "her [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Rossdale said he tried to wean her off the sleeping tablets . |
| 2 | There was not a soul in sight as Theda began resolutely to trudge down the street , looking for a lane that might lead her off the main road , which , being only of packed dirt , was already a hasty-pudding of mud which churned under her mercifully booted feet . |
| 3 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 4 | Brownie Owl was very sympathetic when Penny told her about the lost budgie . |
| 5 | While they ate their first course , a delicately flavoured clear soup , Nathan told her about the winemaking establishments which lay along the shore to the south of the town . |
| 6 | Well she she told me that your M E type symptoms had got a lot worse and I said that 's we had at That 's what I chatted with her about the other day but |
| 7 | A NURSE charged with murdering four children had shown no emotion when colleagues spoke to her about the mysterious string of collapses suffered by child patients on the ward where she worked , a court heard yesterday . |
| 8 | Anna never said , Not before you are twenty-one ; she did n't tell her about the legal arrangements she had made . |
| 9 | So Brenda told her about the adventurous ride by the short cut . |
| 10 | He was clever at finding bargains , reporting back to her about the special offers , the cheaper lines . |
| 11 | Earlier she admitted : ‘ It was a shame it had to go ’ , when a fund-raiser at the town 's South Cleveland Hospital asked her about the returned Mercedes . |
| 12 | She refused the cold remains of the fish and chips , so he took the whole package out to the dustbin at the front of the house ( no need to worry her about the Sweet murder if she did n't know — and it appeared she did n't ) . |
| 13 | He was very tempted to tell her about The Yellow Chair . |
| 14 | I told her about the Scottish physicist Charles ( C.T.R. ) Wilson 's interest in meteorology and of his accidental discovery of the tracks . |
| 15 | I tried to tell her about the horrible man on the doorstep but she would n't listen . |
| 16 | Better have a word with her about the domestic arrangements . |
| 17 | Let him see her as the successful career-woman she was . |
| 18 | With the Rummidge A to Z open on the passenger seat beside her , she set off to find J. Pringle & Sons , somewhere on the other side of the city : the dark side of Rummidge , as foreign to her as the dark side of the moon . |
| 19 | Gregory sees her as the prime mover in this , while allowing for the importance of divine intervention in Clovis 's victory against the Alamans . |
| 20 | ‘ Matilda is the late King 's daughter , Hugh , and we all took that oath to recognise her as the future queen after her brother went down with the White Ship , ’ protested the Prior . |
| 21 | Those who assumed that the cottage was owned by him , not her , saw her as the unmarried sister , dependent on him for houseroom , companionship , a purpose in life . |
| 22 | Producer Michael White saw her in Monotones at the Royal Opera House and signed her as the haunting governess in the Julian Sands-Patsy Kensit film , Turn Of The Screw . |
| 23 | We have already seen that depressive or manic responses may be shown to be related to the problem of the son 's relation to the mother and his contradictory desire to be devoted to her as the ideal mother of hunter-gatherer prehistory and yet to be free of her as the phallic , dominant mother of primal agriculture . |
| 24 | Giving her reasons for that the mother said that she wished access to be resumed at some point in the future , that D remembered her as the natural mother , and there was a bond between them which would be cut off or damaged by adoption . |
| 25 | A consultant visiting her sick child at home , blamed her for the terrible housing conditions where she lived . |
| 26 | Pressing , as her distresses are , if I did not think her heart was rightly turned , I should be afraid of proposing such a measure , lest it should unsettle the sobriety of her mind , and , by exciting her vanity , indispose her for the laborious employments of her humble condition ; but it would be cruel to imagine that we can not mend her fortune without impairing her virtue . |
| 27 | Leonora felt better once she was in the taxi , particularly since Penry not only held her hand , but kept his arm round her for the entire journey , taking her mind very successfully off the evening ahead by the sheer joy of just being with him after a week apart . |
| 28 | And when the bridal party came out into the church porch and stood blinking and smiling in the winter daylight , Sir Felix Lark , his wild eyes excessively unstable , was instantly at Linnet 's elbow , topping the suave invitations of Mr Adolphus Moon to meet his artistic friends with offers to mount her for the Far Flatley hunt . |
| 29 | It was the duty of the medicine man of the line of Armijas to tutor the spirit warrior through the Seven Levels , to prepare her for the final battle , in which she would stand with the other spirit warriors — the Holy Woman From Across the Great Water , the Man With Music in His Heart , the Red-Handed One , the Yellowlegs Who Has Lost Much , the Great Father in White , the Man Who Rides Alone — against the army of the manitous and the story would end . |
| 30 | It had prepared her for the coming meeting when she would be alone at last with the youth who was King of England ; the youth she loved … |