Example sentences of "her [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , hoisting her bag over her shoulder with an element of pride that for a brief moment made her lose sight of how important it was to try and pin him down for an interview , she made for the door . |
| 2 | But seeing Damien made her lose concentration and before she knew what was happening she found herself boxed in yet again . |
| 3 | The illusion that she was a spectator , and this was the play , was making her lose touch with reality ; and making her forget the enormity of her present predicament . |
| 4 | I was working her hard by now , trying to make her lose control . |
| 5 | Putting her knead cake down in the kitchen , she went back to her own home through the streets where already black crepe banners were being hung from every window . |
| 6 | In the end , it seemed easier to surrender to her eagerness for information , to let her make coffee for both of them , then answer her innumerable questions as best she could . |
| 7 | This thought , combined with the hurt of his having forgotten her family so completely , helped her to remain calm . |
| 8 | To turn the knife in the wound , he had mentioned to her the name of a local pub that had refused her singing act . |
| 9 | With her died the chance for Sinead to exorcise the demons that had scarred her childhood and turned her into a rebel whose talent to shock would ultimately overshadow her singing ability . |
| 10 | We wo n't be seeing 19-old Dannii in Home and Away from next week — but we will be hearing more of her now she 's launched her singing career over here . |
| 11 | A memorial service was held at Capel Tegid , the Welsh Presbyterian chapel at Bala , her native town to which she retired after her singing career . |
| 12 | In her primping performance as Amy Johnson in They Flew Alone ( 1942 ) , Anna Neagle is allowed to express none of the deeper motivations for her character 's decision to defy convention and take up flying , and the film never tries to make anything of its contrast between Johnson 's individualism and its concluding images of girls marching , clearly anything but individuals . |
| 13 | She was a good waitress , but when she stood by the tables , the men looked round her to see Aileen . |
| 14 | The provisions for capital gains tax relief for entrepreneurs were also amended to extend the relief to gains arising from the sale of quoted shares where the qualifying entrepreneur held them when they were unquoted and allow him or her to claim relief when they receive shares in another company in exchange for unquoted shares in their own . |
| 15 | Her Sierra covers her demanding journey briskly and economically . |
| 16 | You may end up ‘ training ’ your child how to escalate her demanding behaviour . |
| 17 | One friend in her mid-forties , who had cared for her demanding mother for a number of years , said , after her death , ‘ I do n't feel any regrets at all . |
| 18 | What would Miss Henry say if she could see her now — Miss Henry , who only an hour ago had been exhorting her to cultivate dignity and repose ! |
| 19 | with her dawdling indifference , |
| 20 | He leaned against the counter , eyeing her withdrawn face . |
| 21 | Let her eat lunch and then give her a mild tranquilliser . |
| 22 | The injuries to the head , consistent with about 15 blows , would have caused her to lose consciousness which made her helpless to resist the acts which caused her death , he said . |
| 23 | I 'd meant her to lose control and give me an opportunity , but it was proving the other way around . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm showing Melanie the neighbourhood , ’ said Finn , clutching his sister 's shoulders and rocking her kneeling form to and fro in an embrace which made her laugh soundlessly until she looked like a young girl . |
| 25 | Her three pet moggies gave her the idea for her prizewinning story . |
| 26 | Seeing his broad back and shoulders , the proud carriage of his dark head , she felt an overwhelming longing to give in to her clamouring body . |
| 27 | When , by the sheerest fluke , she 'd discovered he had not one other woman on the side but two , it drove her to near insanity . |
| 28 | Although she had rejected the Almighty , Mother Benedicta had asked her to attend Mass . |
| 29 | A warrant was issued for her to attend court on a date to be fixed when sentence will be passed . |
| 30 | He summoned her to attend church and then , at the moment of consecration , just as she was about to leave , four armed men stopped her . |