Example sentences of "[prep] her at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife still knows a person born shortly after her at the same maternity hospital . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Obviously she is very upset being left alone in a strange country and we are looking after her at the police station . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Corbett stared past her at the timbered house . |
| 6 | She stared at the book-filled wall above the desk , then turned back , seeing how he was looking past her at the same spot . |
| 7 | On the narrow bridge he stood in front of her again , blocking her way , looking back past her at the House . |
| 8 | He swallowed and , keeping his head low , looked past her at the girls . |
| 9 | ‘ What do you want ? ’ he demanded , looking past her at the paladin , who was brandishing his sword . |
| 10 | THE Queen is so delighted with a bronze statuette of her at the Trooping the Colour by amateur sculptor Bob White , of Leeds , that she has asked to keep it . |
| 11 | Rosa had been crying then , with the pieces of the plate her mother had tried to smash over her head in front of her at the table , and her mother had put the back of her hand to her daughter 's cheek , as if to test her for fever . |
| 12 | As she turned the corner , about four feet ahead of her at the saloon end of the passage , Nathan was sitting in the well-padded swivel chair bolted to the deck in front of the chart table . |
| 13 | She held her breath for a moment and then the tears and the breath burst out of her at the same time . |
| 14 | ‘ I could have jumped on board of her at the time from the jib-boom . ’ |
| 15 | Once ensconced in her burrow , the female mite will soon begin to lay eggs , which accumulate behind her at the rate of three or four a day . |
| 16 | She looked behind her at the door of the courtroom . |
| 17 | ‘ I just called by to give Guy a message from my father , ’ the blonde was murmuring , glancing behind her at the half-open front door , then smiling at Virginia with such patent insincerity that she 'd have laughed if she had n't felt like crying her heart out instead … |
| 18 | You came without warning and without asking my permission and sat with her at the back of the lecture theatre , exchanging glances and comments . |
| 19 | The old man had gone to stay with relatives for a few days , and Dorothy wondered if I would water her houseplants , because he ( Leo ) wanted to spend all the time he could with her at the hospital . |
| 20 | Arrested with Mrs Dyer was her son-in-law , a Mr Arthur Palmer , who happened to be living with her at the time . |
| 21 | Instead of asking Robert to spend more time with her at the weekends , she blamed him for being absent when something quite minor happened to one of the children . |
| 22 | It dawned on him that he had not had a date for weeks , and his first one would be with her at the Edwardian Ball . |
| 23 | Half a dozen Floridians trailed after their leader , making the shape of a V with her at the point . |
| 24 | One day , she had shyly asked the Princesse whether Portia might come and spend a week with her at the beginning of the summer break . |
| 25 | ‘ I mean , ’ Magrit said apologetically , ‘ that we caught up with her at the ice-cliffs just beyond the perimeter . |
| 26 | She wondered if the mac belonged to Johnny , and if , perhaps , he was there in the house with her at the moment . |
| 27 | The ‘ Minister of the Crown ’ role was hung on little Colin Moynihan for a day or two while everyone tried not to laugh ; he was , after all , only just over five foot tall and Minister for Sport and he had , after all , not slept with Pamella , only been with her at the Winter Ball . |
| 28 | Mat was good too , because he did n't want to arrive at her place hot and flustered ; not today , not with her at the end of the walk , not with that subtle but unequivocal promise there , waiting , ready . |
| 29 | With her at the presentation was Nan McKelvie ( left ) and Jean Murray ( right ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , anyway , ’ Lisabeth went on grumpily , ‘ she did ring and she wants you to get in touch with her at the local National Insurance office . |