Example sentences of "her at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Jonadab was waiting for her at the stair bottom .
2 ‘ And , lady — ’ His voice stopped her at the door .
3 His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) .
4 I could hear her at the door ,
5 Mrs Bennett waylaid her at the door of the little sitting-room which Celia had designated for her and Brian 's everyday use .
6 Often , after he had left her at the door of her apartment , he would ridicule himself An old man with a Pygmalion fantasy .
7 She looked behind her at the door of the courtroom .
8 He must have heard her at the door .
9 ‘ Lissa , ’ Adam greeted her at the door .
10 Anne caught her at the door to the bedroom .
11 Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands .
12 Wilcox waited impatiently for her at the bottom of the final staircase .
13 For all she knew , Molassi could be waiting for her at the bottom , his knife drawn , standing over the body of Rodomonte .
14 Whenever Jacob was meeting Deirdre outside college hours he waited for her at the bottom of Patrick 's Hill where it joined King Street .
15 Clare was in the bathroom , and he waited for her at the bottom of the stairs .
16 Luke was waiting for her at the bottom of the staircase , fifteen minutes later , looking — surprise , surprise ! — extremely impatient .
17 She watched her at the mirror .
18 Meg was busy trying on hats at the far side of the room , the android assistant standing beside her at the mirror , a stack of round , candy-striped boxes in her arms .
19 Outside , she stood and looked about her at the maze of buildings .
20 He kissed her lingeringly as if he had all the time in the world and she felt a shudder run through her at the response he was forcing from her with so little effort .
21 Whitlock smiled at her then looked beyond her at the couple on the sofa .
22 The scene that greeted her at the top was already less frightening than it had been when Phoebe arrived .
23 And it is Britain she thanks for the startling transformation and thinks will keep her at the top .
24 Pat was having an affair — and in a crowded restaurant , he asked her at the top of the sentorian Williams voice : ‘ Well tell us about this man you 're having the affair with then . ’
25 Graf is one of the world 's top tennis players whose supreme athleticism and guts have put her at the top of a very tough profession .
26 In other words , according to this view , Germany along with all the other nations stumbled into war in nineteen fourteen , was then declared , simply because she was the defeated party , declared to be the guilty party , erm had punitive terms imposed on her at the Treaty of Versailles , and as a result of this moved towards extremism in internal politics , with the erm consequence that the Democratic Republic of Weimar collapsed , erm Hitler came to power , and Hitler was some kind of evil person , a Satanic messenger from Hell , who first of all visited his atrocities on , on the Germans before doing the same to Europe as a whole .
27 When he stood beside her at the grave he longed to hold her hand , and the sight of smudges on her cheeks from weeping made his heart ache .
28 ‘ When we had n't seen her at the grave for a while we thought she must have gone away and so when we had any flowers left over we put them on Brian 's grave , ’ said Mary .
29 Could I make an appointment to see her at the Education Office to sort out the dinner money debts once and for all — hopefully .
30 In spite of scepticism and outright hostility to her at the court ( how could she achieve what professional commanders had failed to do ? )
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