Example sentences of "[prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 'd have been better with someone nearer her own age , ’ the old woman murmured to herself . |
| 2 | But she also had alliances with people nearer her own age , notably with a wild young postgraduate architect , a hard-drinking , reckless , one-off character called Colin Lindsey , who was already provided with a wife and a baby , but who would nevertheless take his turn to sit on Esther 's beaded rug . |
| 3 | She stopped for a breath and took a step nearer her mother . |
| 4 | Also , I was conscious that my little friend Suzi Hoflin is usually the only young one at these evenings , so I thought a couple of extra women nearer her own age would make her feel less conspicuous . ’ |
| 5 | Rita has moved to Amersham , nearer her son and daughter . |
| 6 | Better she should be with a youngster nearer her own age than with him , who anyway fancied Rose Hilaire . |
| 7 | It 's Harriet who 's the something , a good little capitalist something looking after her family plus not to forget the old Babushka . |
| 8 | When she meets him after her seduction by the Older Man , they are tragically tense and withdrawn . |
| 9 | Hence her smile ‘ as if ashamed , a kind of twisted smile ’ after her terror and immediately before the passage I have just quoted . |
| 10 | Throughout the long inquest , which resumes on Thursday , Mr Ward 's counsel has suggested there was a sustained cover-up after her disappearance and the discovery of her severed and charred remains in the Masai Mara game reserve . |
| 11 | Colin Barnett , the husband of Aisling Barnett , the liver transplant patient , said she was still in a coma and looking ‘ quite peaceful ’ after her 11-hour operation . |
| 12 | It is an irrelevant disappointment that after her delightful scene with Princess Katherine ( Emma Thompson ) , Geraldine McEwan as Alice has nothing to do but adjust a veil or two and look pleased . |
| 13 | Although her satire on wedlock was not published for more than a century after her death , its composition elicited an immediate rebuke from her brother Samuel , who admonished her thus : Repent , renounce all wicked wit : … |
| 14 | FREE AT LAST entered 1,000 Guineas calculations after her victory in the Somerville Tattersall Stakes at rain-soaked Newmarket yesterday . |
| 15 | She has even been snipped out of a photograph taken after her wedding . |
| 16 | Wrapped up in the everyday business of looking after her newborn baby , Belinda felt fine : she could cope for a few days . |
| 17 | After her husband 's life sentence , Mrs Sisulu , 68 , was detained without charge twice . |
| 18 | A NIGHTCLUB bouncer accused of murdering Marie Wilks asked for a cloth to clean his car hours after her disappearance , then asked to keep the cloth , a court was told yesterday . |
| 19 | Later that day I was the guest of Locheil 's gamekeeper , Donald Cameron , who informed me that Fiona had died three days after her admission to hospital in Inverness , ten days ago . |
| 20 | The classic working-class ‘ mum ’ , living at home to look after her numerous children with the man as the bread-winner , while a folk myth sustained by the Inland Revenue and the population census amongst others in the 1970s , conformed less and less to the reality . |
| 21 | Mrs Fanshawe had regained consciousness in Stowerton Royal Infirmary after her six-week-long coma . |
| 22 | The day after her accident we went to the swimming baths so she could have a shower . |
| 23 | He was real kind to Marie after her accident . |
| 24 | She 's better now , you know , after her accident and that . |
| 25 | Not every day like we used to just after her accident , but quite a lot all the same . |
| 26 | She 's gone to Scotland to look after her baby . |
| 27 | Marie 's gone to Scotland to look after her baby , so everything 's going to be all different and Mr Jackson 's going to look after me . |
| 28 | And there , after her warming-up exercises , she leaped like a gazelle , undisturbed by the fact that she was being filmed on video by two pupils and barely noticing that during the session a small group of people tiptoed on to the gallery , and she did her last jump to applause . |
| 29 | She scandalised the academic conventions by naming all the chimps ( Mr Leakey , after her mentor Louis Leakey ; Mr McGregor , after the Beatrix Potter character ) and referring to them as ‘ he ’ or ‘ she ’ , instead of ‘ it ’ . |
| 30 | In sharp contrast , Goodall learnt about diplomacy early on , back in England after her first spell at Gombe . |