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 .
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