Example sentences of "her by [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One , she felt , was taking advantage of Bernard and her by knowing about the business — he had requested some shares in the company , which she considered an outrageous request ; another had called her by her Christian name which was equally unacceptable . |
| 2 | When he played tennis with his sister , he would infuriate her by wandering off the court to contemplate . |
| 3 | THE lover of Britain 's famous agony aunt , Marje Proops , was secretly cheating on her by living with another woman . |
| 4 | She would occasionally reward Thatcherite newspapers , such as the Express , with a gracious , unrevealing interview ; on television , Sir Robin Day and Brian Walden would flatter her by pretending to be tough , and she would flatter them by pretending they were . |
| 5 | He wooed her by sharing with her a delicious baobab fruit . |
| 6 | Whenever a female enters his territory he courts her by swimming in a zig-zag dance , eventually leading her to the next where she enters and he prods her tail to entice her to lay her eggs . |
| 7 | My father tried to stop her by standing in her way , so she ran him over and broke his leg quite badly , on the path before the bridge . |
| 8 | Mrs Lee , 43 , formerly the secretary of the club at the Golden Lion Hotel , Barnard Castle , began taking the cash entrusted to her by paying for a telephone bill . |
| 9 | I tried to take his mind off her by talking about the Norwegian leather industry but he could n't get interested somehow . |
| 10 | And although I had disappointed her by going into ‘ trade ’ , I was still the son of the house . |
| 11 | They could all meet there and he would n't embarrass her by coming into the bank while she did her little bit of business . |
| 12 | Private Eye is appealing against the record £600,000 damages paid to Mrs Sutcliffe after a seven-day trial last May , in which she alleged the magazine had libelled her by claiming in its ‘ Street of Shame ’ column that she had made a £250,000 deal with the Daily Mail for her story after a night of ‘ carousing ’ with the paper 's journalists in a hotel . |
| 13 | He laughed against her throat and then teased her by nipping at her chin . |
| 14 | Her attendants pay homage before entertaining her by dancing round the small maypole set up for the purpose . |