Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] her [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably he believed that though his wife might join in a little family intrigue against him , she would not want to carry her opposition to the point of war — particularly if that were to involve her in an alliance with her ex-husband . |
| 2 | ‘ We will want to monitor her health for the next month or two at least before letting her return to England . ’ |
| 3 | Mary Moore , 17 , of Chatham , Kent , was starved of oxygen after doctors failed to diagnose her presence in the womb . |
| 4 | ‘ She has given her life in the service of our cause . ’ |
| 5 | Anne tried to hide her eagerness for the idea . |
| 6 | She was endeavouring to find her way to the courtyard when , reaching the end of one of the wide corridors , she found herself in a long gallery lined with portraits . |
| 7 | But as she reached him the vision shimmered and disappeared and she was alone , stumbling as she tried to find her way through the shadows of a forest , mist cloaking the branches of the trees . |
| 8 | Helen Zeitlin , who worked in the haematology unit at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch for five years , and was dismissed on the grounds of redundancy , has won her appeal against the decision . |
| 9 | Anne Cains , a member of Stockton area International Training in Communication has won her heat in the organisation 's national speech competition , and now goes on to compete against five other clubs in the North-East in the regional heats . |
| 10 | Ashi tried to reach her daughter in the darkness . |
| 11 | This is the ruthless side of Kylie , the hard-nosed accountant 's daughter who has exploited her popularity to the hilt and capitalised on her success like no other pop star in the past decade . |
| 12 | She had come to visit her sister for the third year running and , as on the three previous occasions , hoped to stay for a month . |
| 13 | Since then she has expanded her stock by the embryo transfer technique . |
| 14 | Even the most mild-mannered and good-natured mare is likely to approach her dinner bucket with her ears flat on her head , but as soon as she has buried her nose in the oats , she relaxes . |
| 15 | Instead she concentrated on the completion , launch and shakedown of her new Mike Pockock-designed short-handed racing boat Q2 , a truly innovative yacht , custom-built and designed to win her class in the 1992 single-handed transatlantic race . |
| 16 | A new bride is expected to cover her head in the presence of her parents-in-law and older brothers-in-law . |
| 17 | She tried to focus her mind on the words . |
| 18 | Bernice tried to focus her mind on the report , which featured outbreaks of a mystery virus that had wiped out millions in the barrios of Brasilia , Los Angeles and Tycho City . |
| 19 | He tried to imagine her crossing to the phone , sitting down on the chair , legs slightly apart . |
| 20 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |
| 21 | Ironically , it is precisely this religious fervour which has landed her Government in the present mess : not so much mortgage tax relief ( which is limited ) as the failure to tax the unlimited capital gains available from selling the prime family residence . |
| 22 | Merrill bent to put her cup on the tray . |
| 23 | Her heart sank as she tried to negotiate her way between the truth and a lie . |
| 24 | Once she has deposited her clutch in the nest the female has no further interest in it or her eggs . |
| 25 | Next step will be when the Beverly Hills 90210 beauty starts burying her head in the warm California sand during filming . |
| 26 | She has devoted her time to the survey of the wreck of an East Indiaman lying off Weymouth ; once captained by William Wordsworth 's brother , the ship went down in 1805 . |
| 27 | She tried to keep her attention on the lines , but they were already swimming off the page . |
| 28 | Turning , walking , lofting up or down tubes on her predetermined course , she tried to keep her mind on the job . |
| 29 | Labour has at least two good candidates : Mr Harold Walker , deputy to Speaker Weatherill , and Miss Betty Boothroyd , who has proved her competence in the chair and would be acceptable to all parties . |
| 30 | She tried joining her mind to the millions of people everywhere glued to screens for this all important match but all she could see was Colm 's pudgy little legs swinging backwards and forwards and the grim look on his face as she washed away the crusted blood . |