Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] her [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each writer is introduced by Ms Washington and placed for us against her proper contemporary backdrop , so that we can see and understand some of the pressures and concerns that shaped her writing , her style and her narrative voice . |
| 2 | The solution was to let her initiate everything , to allow her to come towards him in her own time . |
| 3 | She was so furious that she drove with exaggerated care back to Kalkara , in case she crashed into someone in her distracted state . |
| 4 | The wicked mood of triumphant secret freedom which had come to her after her first performance of careful deliberate lying to Jack had , for the moment at any rate , left her . |
| 5 | I do not know what sort of friends they were that they would let a young woman come to them on her own ! |
| 6 | In a civil question between the creditors of a deceased and insolvent certificate-holder and his widow , who , without objection by the creditors , obtained the certificate and thereafter carried on the business without any agreement being made regarding her paying her husband 's debts , or the application of the profits during her tenancy , it was decided that she was not bound to account to the creditors for the profits earned by her under her own certificate : Stewart 's Trs. v. Stewart 's Executrix ( 1896 ) 23 R. 739 . |
| 7 | An alarming possibility shot into Melissa 's mind , but Dora could think of nothing but her own predicament . |
| 8 | She approved of the crispness of the linen coifs of nuns , the ironed cleanness of her mother 's Sunday gloves , the drift of long tulle skirts that had stirred about her on her First Communion day , the soft transparency of the veils of village brides . |
| 9 | Breeding seems to be initiated by the female who approaches the male by swimming towards him with her dorsal and anal fins clamped to her body and her caudal fin swaying from side to side . |
| 10 | By this time she was consciously beginning to play the role that most appealed to her ironic sense of self-awareness : the rather eccentric and certainly unorthodox grand old lady of her native Swansea , whose celebrated love of a good cigar , smoked in public , was matched at a less superficial level by deep attachment to the uncompromising principles instilled into her by her Quaker family background . |
| 11 | Financially astute , Alice cultivated people like the financier , Sir Ernest Cassel [ q.v. ] , and is said to have realized a considerable sum by the sale of certain rubber shares presented to her by her royal lover . |
| 12 | She banged on it with her free hand and it was opened by Higgins . |
| 13 | She did not know whether it would be possible for her to continue in office , such was the damage done to her within her own ministry and her own staff . |
| 14 | People who bore it came to her in her rare sleeping periods , and she learned from them . |
| 15 | Her passion for Jane Austen , of course , had been revealed to me by her own writing . |
| 16 | Instead of worrying about what fitzAlan might do to her after her last defiant outburst , she could only think that he might be in danger . |
| 17 | She eventually found one who was also an art collector and paid him for operating on her with her own works of art , most of them created at the Fine Arts School of Dijon where she teaches . |
| 18 | I was still nursing my Freddieland injuries , and the way she was looking at me with her unflinching gaze gave me a queasy feeling I 'd only narrowly avoided providing lunch . |
| 19 | When she married she swore on oath that she would never work for anyone outside her own family again . |
| 20 | All the same it was Dr Kate Ash who was waiting for him in her small flat , dressed in one of her smart business suits , two matching cases ready by her side . |
| 21 | On his death bed he had made his wife , aunt Reed , promise to look after me like her own children . |
| 22 | The Hospice sitting service helped Miss Farndale 's family during her illness ; offering support to look after her in her own home until he died . |
| 23 | One elderly man , eager to speak English , talked to her about her new friends . |
| 24 | One girl talked to us about her sexual abuse . |
| 25 | She raised her head to look at him between her bare knees . |
| 26 | She grew a little confused as to which was day and which was night , and increasingly wanted Alexandra there , calling for her in her faint cracked voice , if she woke and found her customary chair empty . |
| 27 | I was still standing by the pool when I saw Tiare , who walked towards me from her parked car and asked , ‘ How are you settling in , Doctor ? |
| 28 | But , having been blessed with long , slender legs and what Paul described as a model-girl 's figure , she was used to being stared at , so she walked past them with her normal slightly coltish grace , her composure intact . |
| 29 | When they reached home , Ben walked with her to her front porch . |
| 30 | Waking or sleeping his mind fretted away at the case , images drifted in and out of his consciousness , words and phrases came to mind in a confusing jumble but once , in a doze , it seemed that Beryl was actually speaking to him in her clear , cracked voice . |