Example sentences of "[prep] her as [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I protested , waving my arms and running after her as I saw the possibility of getting into Ashley 's increasingly attractive body slipping away from me . |
| 2 | She would bolt the back door and lock the front door after her as she left and she would n't be gone for long . |
| 3 | He saw also the way the Hogans looked after her as she left the kitchen . |
| 4 | Though he was a little surprised , he smiled and said with alacrity that he could just use a cup of coffee , and he lounged after her as she bustled around the kitchen . |
| 5 | The scientists pounded after her as she hurtled out on to the open floor , almost bumping into a pair of guards who were doing their rounds . |
| 6 | He turned towards her as he said it . |
| 7 | His back was towards her as he crossed to the coffee-machine . |
| 8 | He took a step towards her as he started to unbutton his shirt , and she forced herself not to give him the satisfaction of moving away . |
| 9 | I must have moved towards her as she took half a step back . |
| 10 | ‘ We took pictures of her as we do with every baby in special care . |
| 11 | He was disturbingly aware of her as they moved off . |
| 12 | BELVILLE : I defy you gentlemen to think so highly of her as she deserves . |
| 13 | She had seen Billy enter the dining rooms in front of her as she returned from the park with Rachel , and the sight of him had sent a little shiver through her body . |
| 14 | And just as she was feeling sure and secure , a smile becoming a real part of her as she gloried in the feeling growing between them , Lucy gave her to understand that she was going away for three weeks . |
| 15 | A picture of her as she had been in life came up on the screen . |
| 16 | Cries rose on all sides of her as she filled the dishes , but she worked on steadily oblivious , like some eccentric female St Francis , brooding a little about the image seen in the vicarage garden , which , although it had turned out to be only an old cloth flung over a tree stump , was an indication of the way things might go . |
| 17 | The need to hurt him drained out of her as she waited for his answer . |
| 18 | Her eyes widened , as though the reference to Eduardo was something physical like a blow , the fury quite gone out of her as she said , ‘ Why do you say that ? |
| 19 | She claimed photographers who took pictures of her as she walked the streets or appeared at public events were then making a fortune by selling their shots to companies ready to churn out posters , T-shirts and magazines by the million . |
| 20 | They danced in front of her as she went up Long Field , following Joe and the horse and heaving old broad bean haulms into the cart . |
| 21 | Affectionately they watched her as she ambled back to the others , kicking fallen leaves in front of her as she went . |
| 22 | Slightly put off by his failure to take any notice of her as she entered , her voice was hesitant as she greeted him in her best Spanish . |
| 23 | Indeed he 'd taken as much pleasure in the simple sight of her as he 'd taken in the act of love . |
| 24 | He might just be one jump ahead of her as he had been when he stole her car space . |
| 25 | And that was the problem , Sabine thought , staring rigidly ahead of her as he started the car . |
| 26 | He was close behind her as they rounded the L-bend of the restaurant — and he very nearly cannoned into her when she suddenly stopped dead . |
| 27 | She set out across it , wishing she had a dog with her and admiring , over her shoulder , the neat prints of boot sole and heel that she left behind her as she walked . |
| 28 | He pushed his hands in his pockets and stepped a little behind her as she strode . |
| 29 | On her slender body was only the bathrobe , which fluttered out behind her as she ran into the steaming night . |
| 30 | With that , Ursula turned on her heel and marched out of the room , throwing the parting remark , ‘ I need some air ! ’ behind her as she went . |