Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] her [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For how long would Rachaela have to go on sharing her life with this being ? |
| 2 | Her achievements have not been forgotten , and five awards are given annually to commemorate her work in the field of nutrition and public awareness of healthy eating . |
| 3 | Since joining the University 's Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology as a New Blood Lecturer in 1984 , she has successfully divided her time between teaching and research , and establishing not only a national charity but two commercial companies as well . |
| 4 | Wanda from New Jersey phoned in to say her need for the taste of blood was a clinical necessity without which the withdrawal symptoms were ‘ just awful , ya wouldn ’ wan na go through it Jerry , ’ she told her host . |
| 5 | She has toiled endlessly to keep her body in the shape it was in 20 years ago with a punishing regime of exercise and diet . |
| 6 | She would probably wait patiently to seize her chance at egg laying , then steal in , for reed warblers are primary hosts to cuckoos in wetland habitat . |
| 7 | That her novels are not better known is due largely to her extreme modesty about her literary abilities ; but there is no doubt that her concise , deceptively light prose style , reliance on dialogue to carry the plot , and delight in satirical exaggeration influenced both Firbank and Evelyn Waugh [ q.v. ] , and that she has thus left her mark on the development of the twentieth-century novel . |
| 8 | ‘ We hope this unfortunate episode has not blighted her view of Merseyside . ’ |
| 9 | A MUSLIM woman who has not seen her bridegroom since the day of a registrar 's office wedding had her marriage annulled yesterday by a Scottish judge . |
| 10 | I pretended not to notice her look of astonishment and got on with my shining . |
| 11 | SO Gold Blend 's glamorous careerwoman , alias Sharon Maughan , has finally got her man after a five-year courtship — if you can call a series of 30-second meetings that . |
| 12 | ‘ It is n't that Constance is naughty , or has tantrums , ’ she said to her cousin on the telephone , ‘ it 's as if she has just turned her back on me . |
| 13 | But Rainbow has just introduced her audience to one crime that even those expert excavators of the human heart did not choose to mention . |
| 14 | Dannii has already given her name to a range of clothes . |
| 15 | The selectors feel she has already earned her passage to Barcelona , having last summer finished second in the Europa Cup , ninth in the World Championships , and moved to fifth place in the world all-time 10,000 metres rankings . |
| 16 | Zelma , bless her , who has always regarded her son-in-law as a sort of concierge who somehow manages to throw up the odd masterpiece in between sitting at a desk , gazing uselessly out of the window and making endless messes in her kitchen with his coffee dregs and fag ash , had been popping into the study at fairly regular intervals , with unspecific enquiries . |
| 17 | Tatum , who has always followed her husband on the tennis circuit , last week stayed in New York while McEnroe took two of the children to Fort Worth , Texas , for the Davis Cup tournament . |
| 18 | A love of art was kindled in her by a Dominican priest in the 1930s , and indeed , a spiritual and moral consciousness beyond the usual lip-service to the ‘ otherness ’ of creative endeavour has always informed her involvement in art . |
| 19 | I know that Charlotte 's friend , Mrs Gaskell , has nearly finished her book about Charlotte . |
| 20 | She resisted all advances , for her love of coursing far outweighed her interest in any suitor . |
| 21 | , our recently-appointed Evaluation Officer , has now begun her programme of visits to schools , colleges , and training centres . |
| 22 | Jamie was sold , but 2 months later Mrs Burt has n't kept her side of the bargain . |
| 23 | But she has n't altered her position against economic and monetary union ( EMU ) or the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) . |
| 24 | ‘ Victoria has n't seen her father for months . |
| 25 | If you live round the corner from Mary Whitehouse could you pop in and tell her that her phone is off the hook she has n't replaced the receiver and she she 's quite an elderly lady and I would would be terribly upset if if she had n't got her phone back cos she might need it for emergencies or something like that and I am a caring concerned person so could you could you pop round the corner to Mary 's house and tell her that she has n't put her phone on the hook off the hook properly could you do that ? |
| 26 | She did not know how to describe her life in France , had never done so . |
| 27 | Sue now weighs 8st 3lbs ( 52 kg ) and tells me in an accompanying letter that her weight loss and subsequent new figure has completely changed her life in every respect . |
| 28 | She bent forward to return her teacup to the table . |
| 29 | Planning Mrs.Ruth Wilson has again kept her eye on this matter for the Association . |
| 30 | Planning Mrs.Ruth Wilson has again kept her eye on this matter for the Association . |