Example sentences of "in [noun] [prep] her [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the other playwrights whose response to Thatcherism and brutality has been some hand-wringing of their own , Barker is too infatuated by his heroine 's strength to humanise her withe vulnerability and too in awe of her for a passionate or coolly detached opposition . |
| 2 | I find this emphasis generally correct in that it describes what the anorexic girl believes to lie in store for her as a woman : a passive role , a position of helplessness , a loss of self . |
| 3 | Iris was staring in front of her with a set expression , making no response . |
| 4 | Blanche squinted thoughtfully , fixing the man in front of her with an inquisitive stare . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She saw the scene in front of her through a mist . |
| 7 | Nothing , though , would induce her to sit in such close proximity , and she pretended she had n't seen it until the man in the white jacket swiftly replaced everything in front of her without a word . |
| 8 | She saw her future flash in front of her like a dying man 's , every day longer and emptier than the one before . |
| 9 | Felipe stood in front of her like a lion-tamer , a whip in his hand with the thong coiled out of the way , and for a second Maggie felt a wave of fear . |
| 10 | She stretched her arms out in front of her like a cat , proving that Springsteen was still behind on points . |