Example sentences of "her [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One morning , on his way down to breakfast , Dada saw her kneeling on the left-hand flight of the double staircase ; thinking she was saying her prayers , she was bent so low , Dada stepped past her politely . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't want to ask you anything more now , Mrs Hatton , ’ he said to the widow as he left her weeping among the dead man 's ill-gotten glories . |
| 3 | But he was elusive , and she could only fill the long minutes with a pretence of animation as she was absorbed into a group of Heather 's relations , something inside her dying by the second as time passed and Luke kept his distance . |
| 4 | The next day found her driving round the busy , bustling city of Sheffield , desperately trying to keep one eye on the traffic , and the other on the directions scrawled on a piece of paper . |
| 5 | Alex recounted her meeting with the young painter and they laughed together . |
| 6 | A real threat existed , because she responded to him physically , a threat to so much that she valued as part of her individual identity , autonomy , independence , pride , all of which would be lost if ever the weakness he created in her led to her succumbing to the dark attraction he held for her . |
| 7 | Her anger kept her going for the best part of two days , but then Mick bumped into her and asked how Jack was , and she told him , in words of one syllable . |
| 8 | Huy tried to imagine her going through the simple ceremony with someone else , and could not . |
| 9 | Old Black Hannah put in an appearance , and one or two other women from the village who remembered Martha as a child , and who , perhaps , shared her liking for the Old Faith ; but apart from them , it was just Mr Drew ( who galloped through the service as fast as he could ) , Jennifer and the two gravediggers , who came in after the blessing and carried the coffin out underhand , dumping it without much reverence into the mortice they had prepared for it . |
| 10 | Unable to sleep he had drawn back the front flaps of his hut to watch the spectacular storm and had been startled to see her dashing across the flooded clearing in the glare of the lightning flashes . |
| 11 | Also , he had kept her waiting at the Old Mitre and she would have preferred him to say everything then , or telephone now , rather than trail after her . |
| 12 | Sara looked sulky and left them to it , and they heard her calling to the old lady with rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 13 | She thinks about the structure of Disraeli 's Sybil : or , the Two Nations ( 1845 ) , until the sound of the Guardian dropping on to the doormat sends her scurrying to the front door . ) |
| 14 | you 'd just gone , it 's a wonder you did n't see her coming round the bloody corner . |
| 15 | Her main work was centred at a refuge for prostitutes and the women under her charge became used to the sight of her arriving with the latest member of her growing family in her arms . |
| 16 | He had seen her sitting at the high table among the other ladies of noble birth who served the Empress . |
| 17 | Then she came to London and I saw her sitting in the twelfth or thirteenth row of the Royal Festival Hall . |
| 18 | Let him picture her pottering in the improvised chaos of a damp , windowless room … |
| 19 | There was no school on a Saturday and she would probably demand that he take her skating on the frozen lakes in the park — and in all honesty he did n't want to disappoint her . |
| 20 | It was an impressive narrative , and impressively narrated ; Clara found her craving for the bizarre and the involved richly satisfied . |