Example sentences of "of [v-ing] her [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came within an ace of slapping her around . |
| 2 | He tells of one teacher who was interviewed by police for 12 hours , and then suspended from work for six months after one of his pupils accused him of touching her up . |
| 3 | If this was his way of helping her then Maggie did n't think much of it . |
| 4 | How odd , Alec thought , I 've been thinking about her all the time since I came here , trying to think of some way of seeing her again . |
| 5 | I knew Mrs Reed would be there too and I was frightened of seeing her again . |
| 6 | The Marshal could not stop her , and , although I was afraid for her , I was excited at the thought of seeing her again . |
| 7 | After next week there 'll be no chance whatever of seeing her again . ’ |
| 8 | Her reticence about certain areas of her private life irked him , and he occasionally found an excuse to ring early in the hope of catching her unawares . |
| 9 | She knew that even if Miss Clinton had n't had so long a start , her daddy would have little hope of catching her up in his old car . |
| 10 | We toyed with the idea of bringing her down from the gallery and onto the set one evening . |
| 11 | They stood , in silent vigil , at her side : Tiguary implored the chief to find a way of bringing her back with them , offered himself in exchange , but Ariel knew that Sycorax could still not be moved any distance without endangering her life . |
| 12 | A disabled rider who 's accusing a horse trader of cheating her out of twelve hundred pounds says more than a hundred and fifty people may have suffered a similar fate . |
| 13 | ‘ No ! ’ she shrieked , and managed a half-turn away from him , then discovered that he had found a way of keeping her exactly where he wanted her . |
| 14 | But there seemed to be no way of keeping her out of trouble ; her maid , ‘ seeing discomfort on every side ’ , first refused to obey her , and then left her . |
| 15 | The woman from Northampton , was offered a lift outside the King Billy pub in the town , but instead of driving her home , she says the man drove her to Salcey Forest , bound her hands and raped her . |
| 16 | The creche staff did a fine job of picking her up and delivering her back to our chalet , so by the second week we decided to take her skiing with us . |
| 17 | She 'd hoped , thought , it would be nice if he had taken her to lunch sometimes , or let her stay to breakfast in his room at the Franz Joseph instead of pushing her out early and sending her back to the Gasthaus . |
| 18 | Breeze had n't got one , but Fate had no intention of passing her by . |
| 19 | ‘ Your absence meant that I had her all to myself at breakfast — with the additional pleasure of escorting her personally to school . ’ |
| 20 | Shooing the men from the room , the two women undressed her , examined the injuries she had sustained and began the task of cleaning her up . |
| 21 | Incidentally , I am not sure that Cameron should admit this fact since it will make anyone who wants to buy her movie positively glow with pleasure at the thought of paying her practically nothing for it . |
| 22 | Subconsciously he was beginning to resent her ; and there were flashes of anger when he accused his staff of paying her too much attention . |
| 23 | Was this his way of paying her back for trying to sneak Kirsty down to London ? |
| 24 | She had accused him of leading her on . |
| 25 | And suddenly , instead of turning her away from him — he was drawing her towards him . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've no intention of allowing PC Plod to wreck our chances of getting her back . |
| 27 | Although it may have been a convenient way of getting her out of the country , this also indicates that Ælfgifu had previously enjoyed a recognised position . |
| 28 | I thought , at first , of Jean Hastie and of summoning her down to deal with this . |
| 29 | Devastated by the sudden realisation , she all but collapsed on to a nearby chair , her legs no longer capable of holding her up . |
| 30 | He must , however , find some way of persuading her not to brag to the other members of the delegation about his suggestions . |