Example sentences of "[prep] her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'll end up running after her along the platform , bundling books and plaice and Government papers in through the window of the carriage at her as the train moves out … |
| 2 | My wife still knows a person born shortly after her at the same maternity hospital . |
| 3 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 4 | Obviously she is very upset being left alone in a strange country and we are looking after her at the police station . |
| 5 | I skipped after her down the street . |
| 6 | She would employ 250,000 men and women in over 80 British towns and cities , and drag 1 , 006 tons of chains after her into the Clyde at her launch , but she was still 534 until the day a city went to sea and the farmer 's field was flooded across from the Glasgow Road . |
| 7 | Mrs Denham refused his offer , and tucked the baby under one arm , and started to drag the blanket she had been sitting on after her into the house . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought we were going to talk after this weekend , ’ Vitor demurred , strolling after her into the drawing-room . |
| 9 | Perhaps , thought Robert , as he trudged after her towards the iron gates , this was a signal for their lovemaking to become more decorous . |
| 10 | The winner will receive a bottle of champagne on her birthday every year and will have a vine named after her in the Veuve Clicquot vineyard . |
| 11 | She sincerely believes that her grandmother looks after her in the spirit world . |
| 12 | Alice afterwards — in an effort to safeguard her position — claimed that it was the queen who had summoned her and who had promised to look after her in the future . |
| 13 | Arnie had never looked after her in the way Guido meant , performing the sort of small but pleasing acts of chivalry that seemed to come so naturally to him . |
| 14 | She eyed , with as much dispassion as she could muster , the broad athlete 's physique of the man opposite her across the white-clothed table . |
| 15 | As she sat down on the couch , Ben sat opposite her on the settle , his big body and large head topping the back of it while his short legs hardly touched the floor . |
| 16 | She watched as he sat opposite her on the worn old sofa and proceeded to pour the brandy into the glasses . |
| 17 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 18 | But when he came to sit opposite her in the dining-room that first evening , he felt he had made a mistake . |
| 19 | One lunchtime Minton , wearing what seemed to her a hideous sweater knitted for him by his mother , sat opposite her in the school restaurant . |
| 20 | Below her on the lawn she could see the sculpted form of a stone fountain with water spilling from its lips into a fish- and lily-filled pond . |
| 21 | Then they were on the cliff road for Repulse Bay , and the sea glittered below her to the right . |
| 22 | She knew this from the hushed voices of the nursery staff and from the comings and goings far below her in the great house . |
| 23 | There , spread out below her in the late afternoon sun , was Florence . |
| 24 | Juliet is overpowered by passion when she first meets Romeo , and yet still considers his welfare when he is below her in the garden , and the rashness of a contract that is too sudden . |
| 25 | And it was then that she saw Christie Goldsborough coming towards her along the path , his spectacular , fur-lined driving-cape swinging loose around his shoulders , his feet encased in the finest quality leather , his carriage — a shiny , high-perch sporting phaeton — waiting for him just there , in the road beyond the church wall , whenever he had a mind to take the reins in his gloved hands and go dashing off to drink champagne and eat bride-cake at Frizingley Hall . |
| 26 | As Sara leaned over the gate , a slight figure who had been obscured behind them began walking towards her along the hedge . |
| 27 | Vitor moved towards her along the sofa . |
| 28 | Occasionally she half hoped to see him again , she would find herself watching faces rising towards her on the escalator of the Tube and wonder what she would feel if one of those faces were suddenly to be his . |
| 29 | Within a few minutes she saw him riding towards her up the hill , his horse 's harness glinting in the sun . |
| 30 | Four times a day the nurse came towards her across the wide spaces of lino with the shiny basin containing the rattling metal syringe . |