Example sentences of "her [prep] an [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Brighton last week Mr Kinnock had portrayed her as an anachronism as the Nineties dawned , ‘ out of step , out of touch , out of date ’ . |
| 2 | Jack jokingly referred to her as an addition to the family . |
| 3 | But if not , how has her work in algal taxono or her dives into the Galapagos Rift prepared her as an expert on the moving business ? |
| 4 | It would be incongruous to see her as an influence on later writers who may never have heard of her . |
| 5 | Fourth , I saw her as an example of God 's grace . |
| 6 | Harriet carried the memory around with her as an image of horror , like the sickness in her own body . |
| 7 | Rachel stared wildly at her as an image of the gynae registrar at St Clare 's came into her mind — an image of a stocky , balding man approaching middle age ; then , as another thought struck her , she said , ‘ But … but … he was … ’ |
| 8 | Annie came in at seven-thirty every weekday morning , bathed and fed the child and , weather permitting , took her for an outing in the large black perambulator . |
| 9 | He and his wife , Hannie , were living apart when , she said , he attacked her during an argument over financial support . |
| 10 | He led her through an archway at the far end of the hall . |
| 11 | My wife had determined that I must swop my old bike for a car after I told her of an encounter with an old pupil of mine as I was toiling up the hill by the power station in Haughton Road , Darlington . |
| 12 | The words were flung at her like an accusation of felony . |
| 13 | He was playing her like an angler with a fish and knew that she would soon be netted . |
| 14 | It seemed to her like an assertion of closeness to the dead Walter that she could not match . |
| 15 | The Doctor looked at her with an air of hesitant concern . |
| 16 | ‘ London , ’ he told her , staring at her with an air of triumph . |
| 17 | She obviously had n't expected Jessamy to provide her with an excuse for staying longer at the house . |
| 18 | He stood and looked at her with an expression of total innocence . |
| 19 | The other girl looked at her with an expression of dismay . |
| 20 | Natasha gazed at her with an expression in which caution and disdain were perfectly balanced . |
| 21 | On the waterfront she ran into the most assiduous of her mother 's winter acquaintances who greeted her with an exhibition of surprise . |
| 22 | The Doc supported her with an arm around her waist . |
| 23 | Urquhart guided her into an alleyway along Ladbroke Grove and their tongues intertwined , playing and toying with the other . |
| 24 | Michael Burns , 31 , of Whorlton Road , Hardwick , Stockton , is accused of raping the girl after dragging her into an alleyway by the Newtown Social Club in Durham Road , Stockton . |
| 25 | Or was he just trying to provoke her into an argument for the sheer hell of it ? |
| 26 | And then , hustling her along without actually touching her , he got Lucy away from being the unwelcome centre of the foyer 's attention and ushered her into an office behind the reception desk . |
| 27 | ‘ You are all the same , ’ I had said — reducing her from an individual to a stereotype , lumping her in with the worst of the cherry berets . |
| 28 | Similarly , the thematic structure of the novel vaguely follows Propp 's paradigm : Armel takes Larissa into matrimony only to betray her ; Stavro , a gallant but naïve young man , ‘ saves ’ Larissa , begging her to marry him and go with him to Peru , or : ‘ The anti-hero anti-rescuing her from an anti-monster in an anti-romanzo ’ ( 149/727 ) . |
| 29 | Presumably he believed that though his wife might join in a little family intrigue against him , she would not want to carry her opposition to the point of war — particularly if that were to involve her in an alliance with her ex-husband . |
| 30 | He straightened up and pulled another chair closer , sitting opposite her in an attitude of relaxed attention . |