Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] her [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I wish he did have cause to be jealous of me , ’ I said , and took the opportunity to draw her towards me and fold my arms around her . |
| 2 | Tonight I want to take the opportunity to thank her for her patience and support . |
| 3 | Of course ! she could see it all now : Luke had suggested this date to give him the opportunity to warn her off Rob ! |
| 4 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 5 | The reputation of Angelica Kauffman ( 1741–1807 ) has risen steadily in recent years , since she ceased to be regarded as a minor decorative artist and began to reassume the esteem accorded her by her contemporaries . |
| 6 | The exclamation escaped her as a startled squeak . |
| 7 | All her nerves shook with it , as though the blow struck her in her face . |
| 8 | The blow caught her on the cheek and she fell against Gilbert . |
| 9 | The blow caught her on the right side of her face , high on the cheek bone , beneath the eye . |
| 10 | The familiar stress on the first word in the sentence took her at once into the stuffy room in south London . |
| 11 | This would enable the men on the bank to keep her head up and give more time to spend on the attempts to raise her from the quagmire . |
| 12 | Rain thanked her , not having the heart to tell her about Georgie 's other little joke . |
| 13 | The smell excited her like a pheromone , even now , three years after she had walked out on all that madness . |
| 14 | Should the monk provide her with this money she will repay him in whatever way he pleases . |
| 15 | At the end , the photographer kissed her on both cheeks . |
| 16 | Another young man in nothing but a tan lay on the deck watching her through sunglasses . |
| 17 | Her lack of caution led the trackers to sting her with rubber bullets , and since the summer , she has been much more shy . |
| 18 | This stimulates the male to lead her to his nest and show her the entrance by pointing his snout into it . |
| 19 | Courtship in the three-spined stickleback begins with a ‘ zigzag ’ display by the male ; if the female responds by showing a silvery egg-filled belly , the male leads her to his nest , and shows her the entrance . |
| 20 | Billie hurled herself at them , tried to push them away from Adam , but the storm-trooper with the bucket hit her across the head with it , sent her sprawling backwards across the room . |
| 21 | Because the story took her into an exotic , adult world , she enjoyed it . |
| 22 | She asked the driver to take her to the estate agent . |
| 23 | As I followed her up the pathway , every inch of her breathed that she was being a good girl , and as the driver settled her in the front seat beside him she gave him a happy smile ; almost , one felt — seeing the hat-boxes and cases piled up behind them — they might have been starting out on their honeymoon . |
| 24 | Her mother and the driver escorted her to a complex of low concrete buildings in a parched garden high on a nearby hill . |
| 25 | She opened it , the noise hit her like something solid , worse than breaks she thought grimly . |
| 26 | The inconsistency is striking : unwilling to see Athens put down Thasos , a rebel subject , Sparta nevertheless calls on the Athenians to join her in putting down her own rebel subjects . |
| 27 | The sister watched her for a while , then sent the nurse on an errand . |
| 28 | The stranger kept her in a sound vacuum , through which no fascinating rhythm could penetrate . |
| 29 | Oddly , thoughts of the stranger haunted her for the rest of that day . |
| 30 | The stranger had her by the arm . |