Example sentences of "her in a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | God knows , I have little enough to give her in a worldly sense . |
2 | One friend has explained how , in a conversation in which she was lamenting the cost of electricity , Eliot asked her in a confidential manner , " Are you on the domestic tariff ? " |
3 | But her religious faith now took her in a new direction . |
4 | TINY terror Ronnie Corbett scores a big hit with gorgeous Jilly Johnson … by joining her in a new campaign against smacking . |
5 | The Tories gazed at her in a new light . |
6 | How ever , there is no doubt in my mind that it would be quite wrong to confine her in a geriatric home among seriously deranged patients . |
7 | Scotland took full points in the women 's race , with Sinead Dudgeon ( Edinburgh AC ) — recovering from the shock of finding Scottish partner , Mel Neef , coming round the final bend inside her in a slight lead — winning in 24.66 . |
8 | Beth told her in a reproachful voice . |
9 | A few years ago she was admitted to a mental hospital and drugs kept her in a repressed state . |
10 | The three bassets were already in residence , draped snoring on the fireside rug , but they seemed to be used to Debbie because two of them sniffed her in a bored manner and the third merely cocked a sleepy eye at her before flopping back on the rich pile . |
11 | Her sister had been to see her and made her very tired and various strangers had moved her and pummelled her in a familiar manner that made her angry . |
12 | Even as she watched they disappeared over the edge , leaving her in a watery isolation . |
13 | He looked so tall and reliable and gentle and wise , and always greeted her in a kindly way with a little bow and a murmur . |
14 | ‘ I screwed her in a hot-air balloon . |
15 | I looked enough like her in a general way , same colouring , same height . |
16 | A SEX monster battered a 14-year-old girl before dumping her in a freezing gravel pit and leaving her to drown . |
17 | I 'd put her in a total dither . |
18 | Perhaps now , Isabel would listen to her in a normal manner , help mark the newspaper columns with hotel advertisements . |
19 | ‘ Leave the door , ’ Tom growled , then pulled Belinda commandingly into his arms and held her in a close embrace that betrayed every detail of his muscles as they pressed along the length of her softer form . |
20 | And with her jealousy came anger that he could so easily hold her in a close embrace while he still had Doreen in his system . |
21 | Rose asked her in a low voice . |
22 | The others gaze after her in a casual way and resume their Beatles medley . |
23 | BIKER David Bayley takes his dog Sophie walkies in Cradley Heath , West Midlands , by towing her in a house-shaped trailer . |
24 | A CHURCH community worker stabbed a teenager in the neck and attempted to rape her in a terrifying ordeal . |
25 | It has sometimes been suggested that if you feel easily intimidated by an interviewer , and therefore are paralysed by nerves , you should imagine him ? her in a ludicrous situation , such as sitting in the Albert Hall with no clothes on . |
26 | they put her in a bloody trolley and oh course she said , this woman said erm |
27 | Well , they came round for her in a blue car … . ’ |
28 | After several hours Matron managed to calm him down but he left her in a terrible mood . |
29 | But he was incapable of saying more , and instead seized her in a bearlike hug , heedless of her cry that he was squashing her . |
30 | Her son discovered her in a drowsy state an hour later . |