Example sentences of "[verb] her [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he felt sure he would win her in the end , he was annoyed at her continuing coyness . |
| 2 | She smiled as her father began : he would have been happy being a teacher ; he had often told her that and at one stage — in the nature of parents ' bequeathing unfulfilled ambitions to their children — he had hoped that Mr Fenton might consider her as a pupil teacher ( just for the mornings , of course , he needed her the rest of the day ) . |
| 3 | The outspoken Mrs Clinton , an assertive Leftish lawyer , has already become a campaign issue because of a scathing remark she made about women who ‘ stay at home and bake cookies ’ and because Mr Clinton says he will consider her for a job in his Cabinet once he wins the White House . |
| 4 | Progress was painfully slow ; I had owned her for a year before she wagged her tail at me . |
| 5 | Mutely he blessed her for the information and , after quickly slaking his appetite , he was drawn — as if he had no will of his own — to the pothouse , where he picked up Joanna , went out with her into the fields , and made love with a sweating savagery which seemed to satisfy even her and delivered him of a madness which had gathered like an abscess . |
| 6 | They threatened that , if he did not co-operate , the Northern Ireland emergency powers of detention would be used to intern her as a dangerous subversive . |
| 7 | Ace had caught her on the hop again . |
| 8 | She thought she might avoid the place for a few days herself , just in case the boy had any ideas of adopting her as a protector . |
| 9 | Therese had been studying them as soon as the Direktor had telephoned her with the news of the productions and her roles . |
| 10 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
| 11 | Neither of them knew her well , but they would recognise her as the secretary of someone important in the administration . |
| 12 | She hoped that if he was a churchgoer-which was unlikely these days he would not recognise her as the vicar 's wife . |
| 13 | Sarah closed her eyes when he lifted her nightdress and entered her with no show of sentiment . |
| 14 | And then Raynor entered her with a strong swift movement , and the fires engulfed them both . |
| 15 | First pouring boiling water over the used coffee grounds , Trent led Mariana through to the living-room , seating her on the sofa . |
| 16 | Courteously seating her inside the car first , he walked round to the driver 's side , and when he had settled himself behind the wheel asked unexpectedly , ‘ Have you visited one of our pubs yet ? ’ |
| 17 | I ca n't respect her as an aunt . |
| 18 | Carole King , the sharpest female lyricist of all time , ponders going all the way and whether her lover would still respect her in the morning . |
| 19 | But while these were unfortunate , and inclined to make Rachel crumple up her forehead and lecture her on the scientific method and the importance of mental clarity , there was no real danger in such remarks . |
| 20 | Her fiancé has now reported her as a missing person , I believe . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Giles Hawick is taking it seriously enough to have reported her as a missing person , ’ he said tightly . |
| 22 | might tempt her to the wrong thoughts . |
| 23 | Starving her until the next evening , he coaxed her with pony nuts into a stall which Raimundo used for branding and saddling bigger horses , which was so narrow she could n't turn round . |
| 24 | Lady Constance visited some suffragettes imprisoned in Holloway gaol , and this experience transformed her into a public figure with a single-minded burning cause . |
| 25 | No matter how hard she protested that The Delinquents was not soft porn , the film transformed her into the sex-siren she secretly desired to become . |
| 26 | She had lost a good deal of her bloom and bounce , and looked as if the sentiments of the burial service kept stabbing her to the heart . |
| 27 | She liked Robert Urquhart and was attracted to him , even trusted him , unlike Spittals who was no doubt gleefully stabbing her in the back at that moment . |
| 28 | Poor Mrs got two lots of children and they were driving her up the wall ! |
| 29 | He parted her thighs fiercely , and she moaned as his head sank , his tongue driving her to a frenzy . |
| 30 | And a court in Nottingham hears how a taxi driver sexually assaulted a female passenger after driving her to a secluded spot in Park . |