Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] she [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've started to look a bit like her now . ’ |
| 2 | When they were driving along he encouraged her to talk about her father and from what she told him he knew it had been a struggle for her even to get a servant 's position . |
| 3 | In truth she was n't really interested in Taureg 's arrival , but anything that broke the self-imposed purdah of her existence was welcome , she supposed , for she still stood outside the real world , looking in ; a part of her still waited in Yeoman 's Lane and none of this strangeness around her was really happening . |
| 4 | She felt bereft , but a part of her still sane enough to try for self-preservation pulled her away from him and drew a deep breath . |
| 5 | She missed her so dreadfully when she was away , as though a part of her very own body was missing . |
| 6 | She touched him , her hands flat against his chest , tangling in the dark , dark hair , following its trail that led down and down , stroking the aroused maleness that would be a part of her so very , very soon . |
| 7 | Zena Blair went shopping in the Northcott Centre last week and came back with a computer in her trolly . |
| 8 | A WOMAN student was strangled and dumped in a field by her mentally ill musician boyfriend who thought she was the devil , Mr Victor Temple , prosecuting , said at the Old Bailey yesterday . |
| 9 | ‘ Micky made a play for her yet ? ’ |
| 10 | There was a change in her sexually , a big change . ’ |
| 11 | The sight of his face alone must be a reproach to her already tormented conscience . |
| 12 | Have you had a card off her yet ? |
| 13 | I 've got a card for her there . |
| 14 | And that was before , halfway to the door , he turned and flicked a glance at her still flushed face , then fired , sarcastically , cruelly , ‘ With regard to your being a virgin , sweetheart , I 'll bet you say that to all your lovers ! ’ |
| 15 | Your child knows , or thinks , she has put you at a disadvantage by her highly cunning tactics : you are made vulnerable by her highly visible ( indeed , audible ) tantrums and disobedience in public places , whether in supermarkets , on public transport , at the park , during a church service or a visit to the doctor . |
| 16 | I scrounged a pound off her tonight . |
| 17 | Its editor is Jaynie Anderson , whose biography of Morelli , along with a wealth of her newly discovered material on him , is included . |
| 18 | You 've got to look for a home for her now , cos we 're er , moving home . |
| 19 | I thought we 'd go and have a chat with her now . ’ |
| 20 | And my aunt said , Well I would prefer her to if that 's what she wants to do and she 's gon na learn something that might be a benefit to her later on in life . |
| 21 | First he 'd been crazy enough to subdue her with a kiss which , though it had begun in anger , had aroused a need for her so hot and instant that it had stunned him more than her slap , and now this . |
| 22 | They clung together , her body offering no resistance as his mouth became more ruthless , more demanding , creating a desire in her so strong that she moaned softly . |
| 23 | I did n't like to recall that squalid gavotte of erotic incomprehension I had once danced , did n't like to compare — to imagine Gill comparing — my being in a room with her here and my being in a room with another there . |
| 24 | The director had probably taken a room for her there tonight assuming she 'd look for something more suited to her purse in her own time . |
| 25 | There 's a picture of her here and er cheering Australians welcome the queen to Sidney with a banner proclaiming good day Betty Betty ! |
| 26 | Have you seen a picture of her lately ? |
| 27 | no she 's not I have a picture of her somewhere , she 's nice him , his , there , there she is |
| 28 | I 've got a picture of her somewhere |
| 29 | Well look the first thing to occur and immediately comes to mind is that if I was going to be really evil I would I 'd just stick it away in a quite drawer or wait until the day , and I 'd turn up when she was breaking the the bottle , the empty bottle over over the the skip , we 'd do a picture of her actually littering up the countryside . |
| 30 | The Orynthia had been away for eight months ; and only one member of the returning crew , we may not be surprised to hear , decided to risk a voyage in her again — George Groves , the boy apprentice . |