Example sentences of "her [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , after a whispered word with one of the cousins , Angel and he galloped up on either side of her and neatly lifted her off the little black mare . |
| 2 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
| 3 | I told her about the tragic young man . |
| 4 | Ross said , taking hold of her arm and leading her through the wide arched entrance of the building , towards a bank of lifts . |
| 5 | She could not but be gratified and relieved at the possibility of a small sum to see her through the likely lean period before she could get another post . |
| 6 | An influence strong enough to rob her of the natural exuberant self-confidence that had always been a central , unthinking part of her personality . |
| 7 | The client will usually require the engineer to inform him or her of the likely final cost of construction at regular intervals . |
| 8 | I told her of the big green seas , all crinkled and slow , heaving up astern as the icy wind scoured their tops into freezing spume . |
| 9 | In her view the film had been ‘ quite careful ’ to show that it was an allegory and it reminded her of the British classic film Black Narcissus . |
| 10 | ‘ But I am , ’ he asserted with a grin , steering her towards the long metallic midnight-blue convertible parked a little way along the road . |
| 11 | She had n't been prepared for the way poetry came into this fitting together of parts , Shall I believe that unsubstantial Death is amorous , and that the lean abhorrèd monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour , she recited in her head , as O'Hara climbed on top and humped her beneath the rude unshaded bulb . |
| 12 | She breathed deeply , like a swimmer suddenly out of her depth , then his arms locked around her , crushing her against the tautly muscled wall of his chest . |
| 13 | Her with the withered paralyzed arm that she bashed you with because she could n't clear it and you blooming well could . |
| 14 | The words were spoken as his hand touched her shoulder and slid around her back , drawing her into the warm sheltering cliff of his chest . |
| 15 | Travis had raised himself out of his despair to quip that she and his cousin both worked for the same firm , but the message that had come across to her from the dark steely look of Naylor Massingham was that that might be true now , but , since she had chosen not to heed his warning , one of them would not be working for the same firm for very much longer ! |
| 16 | She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut . |
| 17 | He smiled almost gently , but there was nothing gentle about the glitter in his dark eyes as they ran over her from the smooth shining coil of her silver-blonde hair to the long slender legs encased in elegant sheer navy stockings . |
| 18 | The passers by stopped to admire her from the large wrought iron gates at the bottom of the drive . |
| 19 | In some ways I feel her peculiar dilemma parallels my own for she described her stance as one which distanced her from the classical anthropological mode , creating a ‘ memorable adventure ’ , which she claims , ‘ has marked me for life ’ ( ibid. 22 ) . |
| 20 | This was partly due to ‘ The Loco-Motion ’ , remixed by Stock , Aitken and Waterman and her third single on the PWL label , succeeding in breaking her in the all-important American market when it climbed to number three in the US charts . |
| 21 | Whenever she was not working in the house or on the vegetable patch , Endill would find her in the rickety old shed beside the wall he sometimes climbed to hunt for nests in the trees above . |
| 22 | He had sat with her in the long dark evenings , had made sure she ate at mealtimes . |
| 23 | He took her chin between finger and thumb , turning her face and drowning her in the warm amber light of his eyes . |
| 24 | But what made her feel even guiltier was the simple fact that , somehow , no matter how hard she tried , she could n't imagine Arnie lying with her in the big blue bed . |
| 25 | His words , in that elusively caressing accent , floated to her in the quiet little office . |
| 26 | The sight of her in the old tatty jumpers she slept in always brought him back to reality . |
| 27 | He would see her in the old holey woollies she wore to bed , rather than an old-fashioned nightshirt . |
| 28 | After having wooed her in the old high way for most of his young manhood , Yeats was horrified when she suddenly decided to marry the revolutionary hard-man John MacBride . |
| 29 | She watched as he sat opposite her on the worn old sofa and proceeded to pour the brandy into the glasses . |
| 30 | Pebbles had to snatch up briefly to avoid scrimmaging in front of her on the tight final bend , and for a second it looked as though she might be shut in . |