Example sentences of "her [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had also developed such affection for his owner , and had become so possessive of her , that if he saw her stroking another horse , he would roar with rage and throw himself sideways against the nearest fence , cutting and scraping his skin so that it bled . |
| 2 | Have you seen her handling that whacking great bull ? ’ |
| 3 | Had I then known Elizabeth Taylor 's work , I might have imagined her using such a setting . |
| 4 | He titillated himself with thoughts of her applying that cruelty to him . |
| 5 | Oh look at her knocking all them balls of that |
| 6 | Er well Susan 's very much into music and erm I think she thinks she 'd like to earn her living that way but it 's a very hard way to earn a living . |
| 7 | Although in her writing this objection is expressed in literary , not architectural , terms , it chimes exactly with Sir John Soane 's criticism of NeoGothic : ‘ Irregularity is … too generally admitted . ’ |
| 8 | At the Potsdam conference in July 1945 all the occupation powers agreed to disarm Germany , and limits were placed on the types of goods which German factories could produce , to prevent her regaining any war potential . |
| 9 | EVERY other story about Martika seems to be about her dating some new love or other . |
| 10 | I 've just seen her going that way , and I 've just seen skinny Mick that she used to go out with a she had baby to , coming this way . |
| 11 | Once get your heroine into one of those confrontations that are going to make up the greater part of her adventure , once have her facing another person and the words will flow . |
| 12 | One harbours superior thoughts as to just where and in what circumstances her hosts can have possibly imagined her wearing such things , until one recalls that only seconds before one was counting the endless number of stoats ' tails that have gone into the making of the coronation robe . |
| 13 | However , if your baby is a picky eater and you 're worried about her getting enough iron , there 's still no need to change to follow-on milk . |
| 14 | Whichever way she attempts to retreat she may have the back end of a rabbit preventing her moving either way along the hole . |
| 15 | I 'm sure sh you know she would have been in dire trouble er only for my mother having seen her limping that day , but that 's the sort of thing she would do . |
| 16 | The fatal disease was unromantic ( measles ) , but it almost carried off Louis-Napoleon also , and only the courage and devotion of Hortense prevented her losing both sons . |
| 17 | It must be true that Nanny was a liar and a trouble-maker because he could hear her saying all those terrible things that might cause Frankie to be taken away for ever . |
| 18 | Jay could n't believe her saying that . |
| 19 | Her account concluded with her saying that |
| 20 | No she heard her saying that and she says to me I was so mad |
| 21 | When , in well-cut white satin and glycerine tears , she sobbed , Oh but Daddy I do love him , I do love him , he still tried to reason with her ; but then when he saw her hitching up the satin and running across the lawn , throwing off the veil , scattering the astonished wedding guests as she ran , and when he saw her jumping into a truck , not caring that she was getting petrol stains all over her broderie anglaise , jumping into a truck and not with the man they all expected her to love , but with the one she really loves , and then driving off with him in a cheap pickup truck to a motel in Wisconsin , shouting out , Goodbye Father , Goodbye Father ! as she goes ; well when he saw her doing that then Boy could not bring himself to disapprove . |
| 22 | The case for her doing this , in the interests of the party , looks stronger after the Queen 's Speech . |
| 23 | If the mortal was able to stop her doing this , the estrie would die . |
| 24 | Is there anything we can do to stop her doing this ? |
| 25 | Cara had so set her heart , everything , on her doing this job for her , and she — she had blown it ! |
| 26 | Luke Travis 's manner of interviewing had precluded her asking many questions about the work . |
| 27 | The time-consuming nature of Janet 's part in the process , combined with a bad back which prevents her spending more than a couple of hours at the drawing board every day , means she can not keep up with her husband 's prolific output . |
| 28 | In part , this was a consequence of her appointing some ministers who were sceptical of her economic strategy . |
| 29 | She said the cable network had stopped her taking more control . |
| 30 | They did n't like the idea of her taking this trip . |