Example sentences of "[vb past] her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kathmandu : THE PRINCESS of Wales strained her ankle yesterday on a pebbly path in Nepal 's Himalayan foothills — but went on to tease puffing press photographers who still could not match her pace.The Princess walked briskly through the rough , rocky terrain on a walkabout during the second day of her solo visit to Nepal.After straining her ankle on a pebbled road in Dharan in eastern Nepal she began to limp slightly , but her pace still left Overseas Development Minister Baroness Chalker and several photographers gasping for breath.The Princess could not resist the temptation to chide them . |
| 2 | The high rate of acceleration strained her neck muscles . |
| 3 | Belief in some prancing horned beast who conjured up all the mischief in the world strained her tolerance to the limit . |
| 4 | Her voice , when it came , sounded like an old woman 's voice , cracked and tremulous , and the words strained her throat . |
| 5 | She sucked in a deep breath then looked up , squeezing her eyelids tightly together as if to clear the fuzziness which clouded her vision . |
| 6 | Even so , a little frown of apprehension clouded her face as her thoughts strayed to the hours ahead . |
| 7 | Then suspicion clouded her face . |
| 8 | The delicate tracing of his fingers over her naked breast nearly clouded her mind off forever . |
| 9 | Turning her back on the distant crowd , she sat and unbuttoned her top . |
| 10 | Miss Hervey took the reading and entered it , and Isobel settled herself in the chair , the baby on her lap , and unbuttoned her blouse . |
| 11 | She unbuttoned her blouse . |
| 12 | She stood by the foot of the bed and unbuttoned her blouse . |
| 13 | His senses told him that Cora-Beth was as eager as he for closer intimacies , and she made no attempt to draw back when he unbuttoned her coat and felt for the soft warmth of her breasts . |
| 14 | His nimble hands unbuttoned her coat , quested down the back of her skirt and stroked the cleavage where her buttocks divided . |
| 15 | Selina unbuttoned her coat . |
| 16 | He contradicted her assumption . |
| 17 | Laura , who had a horror of pubs , dedicated her life to improving home comforts . |
| 18 | Mary was married but with her husband 's cooperation dedicated her life to God . |
| 19 | First she dedicated her song that night to the man who was bleeding ( he was still in The Bar , the taxi had n't come yet ) , and then to the men who had brought their fists down on his face just two streets from her Bar . |
| 20 | Then she went on and dedicated her song to all those men here tonight who are still hunting , all of those who are unhappy in love , all of those who are putting up with second best , all those who are not getting what they want . |
| 21 | She dedicated her song to all the boys who had really regretted doing it , all the men who have ever said , naming no names , it took ten years of my life , and now I can truly say that I never want to even talk to him again , never to see him . |
| 22 | dedicated her whole being to his life and his work . |
| 23 | But a judge dismissed her compensation claim . |
| 24 | He dismissed her apology with a curt wave of his hand . |
| 25 | President Corazon Aquino dismissed her deputy within the Cabinet , Executive Secretary Catalino Macaraig , on Dec. 10 . |
| 26 | He dismissed her accusation with a brief gesture of one hand . |
| 27 | She is nonetheless scathing of the intellectuals in the Hamburg legal establishment who ‘ did n't raise a finger ’ when the Nazis dismissed her father from his job . |
| 28 | As the rest of the retinue began to come , straggling , into the yard , Groa dismissed her steward and went to her rooms at the other end of the hall , where Anghared , Ferteth 's wife , was sewing stockings and talking to Eochaid 's sister Maire , who was teaching one of Sinna 's girls how to embroider . |
| 29 | Three High Court judges sitting as Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn dismissed her appeal against the tribunal 's finding but varied the sentence to one of suspension for five years . |
| 30 | She saw her tutor 's enquiring look and dismissed her benefactor for the moment . |