Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] her [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's Roger ( Hugh Laurie ) and Mary ( Staunton ) , big noises in the world of advertising jingles trying vainly to repress the scars of a cot death tragedy , good-hearted but batty cat-loving loner Maggie ( Emma Thompson ) gagging for ‘ it ’ but a victim of the very self-help manuals she publishes and sexy Sarah , whose predilection for married men has landed her with the overgrown child that is Brian ( Tony Slattery doing his worst ) . |
| 2 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 3 | I 'd met her at the odd party where we 'd chatted and that 's about it . ’ |
| 4 | He 'd threatened her with the direst reprisals if she dared to leave their suite , not guessing that wild horses would n't drag her away until she 'd cleared the whole matter up . |
| 5 | Arguably , Nathalie Sarraute 's career benefited enormously from Sartre 's famous preface to her first novel , Portrait d'un inconnu ( 1947 ) , which he claimed placed her in the alternative tradition of the ‘ anti-roman ’ . |
| 6 | Thomas was sure the other androids would have rescued her from the burning ship but , discovering she was not part of their mission , would then have executed her . |
| 7 | It would n't have surprised her in the slightest if he 'd left a few minutes early , just for the pleasure of leaving her stranded . |
| 8 | After having wooed her in the old high way for most of his young manhood , Yeats was horrified when she suddenly decided to marry the revolutionary hard-man John MacBride . |
| 9 | My mother 's hotel may have elevated her from the raw stuff of commerce — so much so that she now subscribed to Country Living and other unspecialist periodicals — but the caravan enclosure was decaying anew . |
| 10 | ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA . |
| 11 | As the shop manager pointed out , it was the third time that month she 'd been late for work , and if they had n't needed her to turn up on time , they would n't have hired her in the first place . |
| 12 | They 'd have put her in the freak show , confessing how misled she was by capitalist gold . |
| 13 | And I suppose we might have lost her in the long run , but not just yet . ’ |
| 14 | It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place . |
| 15 | They had not approved of the baby ; they had thought Phoebe negligent at best for getting pregnant and not taking appropriate action ; they had chivvied her through the later months of her pregnancy with a mixture of indulgence and irritation , cross both that she was pregnant and that she was n't taking it seriously . |
| 16 | But she did make two purchases from the hat and the dress departments with the money which J. D. O'Conner had given her for the two articles which she had written for him . |
| 17 | A tramp had found her freezing and near to death on the doorstep of a gin palace near the Elephant and Castle and he had carried her to the local Catholic church . |
| 18 | As soon as she reached the club , as soon as she was back in the public eye , she would have to switch on the false persona that had carried her through the past week . |
| 19 | Old friends who had forgotten her during the hard times . |
| 20 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 21 | She felt as though someone had pushed her off the pleasant , grassy path on which she had been walking , and down a vast , black cliff-face . |
| 22 | But nothing had prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh , says Morton . |
| 23 | It had prepared her for the coming meeting when she would be alone at last with the youth who was King of England ; the youth she loved … |
| 24 | But nothing had prepared her for the monumental size and sheer glamour of the building . |
| 25 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 26 | She projected a kind of agelessness , which had made her at the same time an object of attention from both the Young Women 's Fitness Class and the Over-50s Club . |
| 27 | Double world light-middleweight champion , Diane Bell , showed no sign of the back injury that had sidelined her for the past month . |
| 28 | Somehow — it did not seem diplomatic to enquire too deeply just how — he had missed her at the arranged spot . |
| 29 | She made an effort to recall all he had told her during the previous ride , and paid attention to the way she sat , as well as to the positions of her hands , elbows , knees and heels . |
| 30 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |