Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] her [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway — ’ She looked down on her partly eaten meal and her nose wrinkled before she went on , ‘ I 've got to go downstairs again , and you 'd better clear away here when you 've finished , then go into Mother and see if you can soothe her ruffled feathers . |
| 2 | It 's Iris 's turn to call us really but , but I , I did think about Iris earlier and I should really phone just to see how your dad is , Bobby because it 's really up to her just to see about the weekend and much times that I 've phoned the hospital recently . |
| 3 | She felt that it was up to her now to protect her mother : Mama , do come to the House of Commons with me . |
| 4 | At the first , a middle-aged woman with an enormous bosom was digging a fork into a plate of salad with the precision of an accountant jabbing at his calculator , before transferring the accumulated forkful up to her rapidly masticating jaws ; and Morse knew that if he had married her , it would all have been over within the week . |
| 5 | Most people are amazed at our continuing friendship , but no malice is intended : even her nephew , Crawford , good-humouredly looked up at her recently purchased Venetian chandelier and asked , ‘ Aunt Margaret , is that plastic ? ’ |
| 6 | Standing at the window that looked over the grounds , she thought back over her short stay here in the house , tried to see how it might have been different — and then gave a wry , sad little smile . |
| 7 | She brought her hands up , clasped them together , said impulsively , ‘ Oh , do say yes , Dr Neil , sir , Miss Mates — help a poor , lonely orphan , ’ and this last flew out without her even thinking , and certainly dissolved Miss Mates , even if Dr C , as she privately thought of him , looked a little sardonic . |
| 8 | But you never used to hang round with her though did you ? |