Example sentences of "[prep] she at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 ‘ What do you want ? ’ he demanded , looking past her at the paladin , who was brandishing his sword .
3 On the narrow bridge he stood in front of her again , blocking her way , looking back past her at the House .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 ‘ I could have jumped on board of her at the time from the jib-boom . ’
7 She looked behind her at the door of the courtroom .
8 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 .
9 You came without warning and without asking my permission and sat with her at the back of the lecture theatre , exchanging glances and comments .
10 With her at the presentation was Nan McKelvie ( left ) and Jean Murray ( right ) .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Her mother spoke emotionally of the moment when they were reunited with her at the hospital on Sunday .
15 Half a dozen Floridians trailed after their leader , making the shape of a V with her at the point .
16 Arrested with Mrs Dyer was her son-in-law , a Mr Arthur Palmer , who happened to be living with her at the time .
17 No P C er was erm dealing with her at the time .
18 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 .
19 She wondered if the mac belonged to Johnny , and if , perhaps , he was there in the house with her at the moment .
20 Well , the doctor 's with her at the moment , although he should n't be long .
21 I 'm having the trouble with her at the moment .
22 I 'm not going out with her at the moment .
23 Also we do need a shelf you know in the office , Wendy has a shelf above her at the side , above and we really need another shelf underneath to store things .
24 Right now it would have taken more than a memory of someone else 's predictions to have any effect on the blazing anger stirring in her at the prospect of sweaty workmen and a ruined holiday .
25 And suddenly she felt fierce anger flare up inside her at the way he continually misjudged and denied her and seemed to reject every good and decent thing about her .
26 Unexpected excitement flickered inside her at the thought .
27 One look inside her at the devastation of her soul would have told a very different story .
28 And Sheffield Crown Court has heard how a man allegedly kidnapped and raped his wife ; the man who ca n't be named for legal reasons , was separated from her at the time of the supposed attack , and the case is making legal history .
29 I 'm away from her at the moment ; perhaps you guessed .
30 Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us .
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