Example sentences of "[vb past] her [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He entered her without further ado . |
| 2 | Christine fought for her balance as he grasped her with hooked fingers . |
| 3 | So what did she say about the money when you tried her for less money ? |
| 4 | A few hours earlier Mrs Valerie Williams was robbed of her firm 's wages on a quite road in South Wales when masked men overtook her in this stolen car and forced her to stop and then rammed her vehicle from behind with another car . |
| 5 | His evidence was to help place Mrs Dyer on the scaffold , as was his wife Polly 's , who testified that her mother had at times visited her with various small children who seemed to disappear overnight . |
| 6 | HE WOOED her with skew-whiff quotes from Shakespeare , pranced about in Chelsea football kit — minus the shorts — then bedded her on a futon with all the stamina of an 18-year-old . |
| 7 | She felt a warm rush of gratitude for his sensitivity as he kissed and played with her in a teasing , light-hearted way which both excited and disarmed her at first . |
| 8 | It was fortunate , Isabel decided , that the screen shielded her from curious eyes as she changed her shift . |
| 9 | Next , they offered to pay the woman of the house for the milk , and she asked a shilling , at which some of the men goaded her towards more ; when she refused to raise her price , Boswell gave her a half-crown ( influenced , I feel , not so much by her honest generosity , but by her shapeliness which he described as ‘ comely almost as the figure of Sappho ’ ) . |
| 10 | Two men appeared in front of him , and he caught her wrist and jerked her to one side , raising his sword . |
| 11 | Elizabeth Woodville drew her to one side . |
| 12 | It was almost lunch-time , but the sun on her face stroked her into lingering , into staying still . |
| 13 | The local authority provided her with temporary accommodation . |
| 14 | Old tombstones provided her with that lit match to the powder trail of her imagination . |
| 15 | Rose , he knew , had had an opportunity — her dog-walking provided her with that . |
| 16 | This provided her with some seeds and a loan to buy a goat . |
| 17 | Ann Langford having made her very successful parachute jump which has produced a handsome sum to be shared between Dr. Barnardo 's and the Society wishes to thank all those people who sponsored her in this even . |
| 18 | A friend in Joan 's office was active in the Womens ' Loyalist Action Association and invited her to one of its meetings . |
| 19 | He invited her into one of his lesser parlours . |
| 20 | He 'd lied about Tara , lied about Nicola Schreider … assured her she was n't his type then pursued her with consummate skill until his ego was satisfied that she was ripe for seduction … |
| 21 | She was as fearless as the Wooldridge boys who involved her in all their mischief , but sometimes Anna would stand and stare , as if she was seeing things that others could n't see . |
| 22 | Violette had set up as a paper restorer , an arcane occupation which took precise scientific skill but involved her in outlandish escapades with police and businessmen or lawyers . |
| 23 | Anything which involved her in unnecessary enmeshment with Vitor d'Arcos would be sturdily fended off . |
| 24 | This led to the development officer having to assume such a role herself , and occasionally this involved her in more work than she felt she could easily provide . |
| 25 | A sense that what had just happened involved her in some way made her pull herself together and run down on to the course where racecourse attendants were already putting up a screen . |
| 26 | It was in the boot-and-brushing room that Nicandra found her at last — after a search through the larders , the dairy , and the empty laundry , its warm steam now subsided into a vaporous chill . |
| 27 | Erm what did we do yes , well we went , I , I went to Isobel at what , I found her at three , we had . |
| 28 | ‘ Found her on half an acre in Buckinghamshire with her mother and got her for my youngest lad . |
| 29 | ‘ So you found her after all . |
| 30 | Her husband Karl , 63 , found her in half on the toolshed floor . |