Example sentences of "her [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only were her savings gone , but so was Aunt Jane 's legacy and the money Mike had pressed on her as an early wedding present … |
| 2 | Just as mainstream Surrealism made a point of emphasising the intuitive powers of women , and delighted in portraying her as an earthbound sorceress , so many women artists also presented their image as subject to the cycles of nature and magical forces . |
| 3 | That book portrayed her as an insecure child , who had overcome her unhappiness at the time of her mother 's elopement by zealously nursing her younger brother . |
| 4 | I supervised her professional training while she was working at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute at Penicuik , and appointed her as an Assistant Librarian at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh just over a year ago . |
| 5 | George Bernard Shaw [ q.v. ] , a friend of her youth , remembered ‘ Sophie had a sunny personality that was very engaging ’ ; and this personal warmth , combined with intellect , moral purpose , culture , and commitment to making girls think , launched her as an outstanding teacher , Frances Buss 's right hand and natural successor . |
| 6 | He 'd become more aware of her as an attractive girl with a very feminine figure that the fashionable flat-chested dress styles could not conceal . |
| 7 | He had treated her exactly as he 'd said he would , and not even for an instant had Kate had even a bat 's twinkling that he thought of her as an attractive woman . |
| 8 | The streets of the city welcomed her as an old friend as she made her way unerringly towards the brilliantly lit entrance of Tivoli . |
| 9 | But they greeted her as an old friend . |
| 10 | Her main fear was that the court would regard her as an unfit mother because of her sexuality . |
| 11 | Flynn , of course , meant that the English government was uncaring and malignant — out to break Ireland and keep her as an inexhaustible well of cheap labour and a fertile nursery for the British army . |
| 12 | Having had the good fortune to fall in with Gabriel outside Cat 's Coffee Shop as she was on her way home , he had seized his chance and asked her for an early supper . |
| 13 | ‘ What will people think when those children ask her for an improper story ! ’ |
| 14 | Someone interviewed her for an Italian magazine — they 're doing a piece about her family , or so she says . |
| 15 | I do n't know what it was , but I instantly fingered her for an obvious goer , sack-artist , dick-idolator , and so on . |
| 16 | I saw her through an open doorway . |
| 17 | The Countess of Essex had employed the magician , Simon Forman [ q.v. ] , to secure the love of Robert Carr ( later Earl of Somerset , q.v. ) , the king 's favourite , and to rid her of an unwanted husband . |
| 18 | Miranda and Angus sat in a velvet-lined , crimson booth that reminded her of an old-fashioned railway carriage . |
| 19 | She was roused from this disturbing fantasy by the arrival on the table in front of her of an Italian youth who was trying to escape the clutches of two boisterous female companions . |
| 20 | As the abrasive words poured into her ears , he was moving her against an ornamental lacquerwork cabinet of hip height and bending her backwards , a hand dealing with the intricacies of her bustier with a sure skill that bore witness to a wealth of experience with even the most esoteric of feminine garments . |
| 21 | He treated her like an incompetent subaltern . |
| 22 | The cold wind closed around her like an icy fist , chilling her to the bone . |
| 23 | It nagged at her like an aching tooth . |
| 24 | Arriving like a final dea ex machina , Doris 's condition makes her like an ironic version of that goddess in Tennyson 's ‘ oenone ’ , ‘ Idalian Aphrodite beautiful , / Fresh as the foam , new-bathed in paphian wells . ’ |
| 25 | McKitrick 's house lounged on a maple-strewn ridge , sleek and contemporary , with a gable end sporting one huge circular window that stared down at her like an unblinking eye . |
| 26 | It was a size too small , but finally the leather stretched so that it fit her like an elastic corset . |
| 27 | That last taut exchange with Roman seemed to have whipped up some invisible energy that would n't let her relax , prickling through her like an electric storm . |
| 28 | She heard Adam gasp , and panic went through her like an electric shock . |
| 29 | The Bishop and the Archdeacon were old and wily but not too well-informed ; Spruce , on the other hand , looked to her like an intelligent adversary . |
| 30 | I would cherish her like an old man who 's caught a barmaid . |