Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | She followed him up the room , repeating her sympathy and when that did not hold his attention , she began to apologize for her lateness in coming to speak to him about the tragedy . |
| 2 | It seemed that Cathy had a lot to lose through her uncle 's death . |
| 3 | She tried to go about her tasks with the same thoroughness as before , but too often her mind strayed from what she was doing , and promotion became less and less likely . |
| 4 | Oddly , she felt less happy , less content , less well able to go about her daily business than she had in the three painful months of her sexual abstinence . |
| 5 | And she knew herself to look better , clad in what passed for finery these days , than she did in the house where with so much work to do she had not a moment to spare for her appearance . |
| 6 | She had been so busy with her dress house in Rome , coping with her designer , planning for the future and ensuring that everyone in the business was kept happy — each of which seemed a full-time job in itself — that she had hardly had time to spare for her three children , let alone her mother . |
| 7 | Equally , Penny remains on one level as a deluded fantasist who believes , very like an Iranian woman , that a wife 's duty is to wait for her husband 's return from the wars . |
| 8 | Pepita set down among the crates to wait for her friend and the rum to reach her . |
| 9 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
| 10 | And Elinor was just going to have to wait for her merciful release . |
| 11 | She got herself seated at a table for four , ordered a glass of pastis , the local drink , and settled back to wait for her friends . |
| 12 | It sounded like a question , but he had never intended to wait for her answer . |
| 13 | His kiss was leisurely as if they had all the time in the world to explore each other , and he could afford to wait for her response , confident in his own powers of arousing it . |
| 14 | Even when she was tiny she had n't really thought of him that way , and when she was older , about thirteen , she had secretly been terribly proud in front of the other girls when Georg , who had never seemed to go through a spotty adolescent phase like other boys , used to wait for her outside school so that they could walk up the mountain road together . |
| 15 | Then , without bothering to wait for her answer , he had swung round again and was heading imperiously for the group of gold-brocade-covered armchairs that stood in the curve of the huge bay window , overlooking the sun-burnished waters of Loch Lomond . |
| 16 | to wait for her midwifery to come through and then er they 've closed that |
| 17 | ‘ I was crazy to see a girl naked , and especially to see between her legs . |
| 18 | She had to mourn for her friends who died in the accident . |
| 19 | Because the primary nurse can not personally be on duty to give care throughout that time , arrangements must be made for care to continue during her absence . |
| 20 | ‘ Is that an order ? ’ she teased him , but indicated her consent by beginning to search for her shoes . |
| 21 | Close to , she discovered , Pete smelled of carbolic soap , a dreadful turn-off , and when he kissed her in the dark it was so wet and sloppy she longed only to search for her handkerchief and wipe her mouth dry . |
| 22 | ‘ Moira was in her twenties when she decided to search for her mother . |
| 23 | She 'd rejoined the sports club she used to belong to before she 'd allowed her membership to lapse during her time with Arnie . |
| 24 | She could do with being able to sew for her own sake . |
| 25 | She put down the tongs , and began to rummage through her bag . |
| 26 | However , as she stood before him , a familiar lust began to pound through her veins . |
| 27 | She recalled her reaction to his touch earlier , felt the adrenalin starting to pound through her veins all over again . |
| 28 | What she did was to go through her cupboards , where she discovered a dress which had once belonged to Clara 's cousin , and which had been enclosed years before in a charitable parcel of hands-on . |
| 29 | It seemed to go through her body . |
| 30 | No-one was allowed to go through her belongings . ’ |