Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] her [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authoritarian paterfamilias presided over the institutionalisation of the double standard , while the pedestalised mother and wife depended for her purity on the degradation of the fallen woman . |
| 2 | The 14 year old girl was attacked near her home on the Grovelands estate in Kidlington . |
| 3 | Soon after Beatrice came back to Paris , Modigliani moved into her studio on the Rue de Montparnasse , his large drawings of caryatids on the walls . |
| 4 | She was used to her old mistress 's pallor , to the skeleton thinness , to the heavy , bruised-looking eyes but walking into her bedroom on the beautiful summer 's morning and looking towards the bed she was stopped in her progress and forced to control the exclamation of horror that rose to her lips . |
| 5 | ‘ Very well , very well , continue ! ’ snapped Araminta , quivering with temper , and shooting killing looks at her cousin on the other side of the table . |
| 6 | She lingered with her hand on the door-knob . |
| 7 | Joan was thanked for her participation on the Committee . |
| 8 | I remember nothing there except a girl in the top class , who was fair-haired and had a bright complexion , and I see her now in my mind 's eye outstretched , lying upon her back on the floor . |
| 9 | She became noted for her work on the Fringe and is now at the RSC with a fine version of A Woman Killed with Kindness . |
| 10 | The belt was quite tough and did n't give way at once when Bully pulled at it , so Angela was dragged along as Bully backed , growling , until finally she lost her balance and ended up spreadeagled on her front on the pavement . |
| 11 | She lied to her father on the day of her escape when Lancelot says to her of the escape — Act 2 , Scene 5 , line 39–41 : |
| 12 | In front of Ruth an old woman , not moving quickly enough to please them , was thrown so heavily that she landed on her back on the deck and was too winded to rise . |
| 13 | Lisa glanced at her watch on the bedside table . |
| 14 | Then there was the inventory of clothing found in the moorland hut and identified by Sarah as that worn by her brother on the night he disappeared : ‘ Single breasted raincoat , navy blue ; grey tweed sports jacket ; grey terylene and worsted trousers ; grey silk tie … ’ |
| 15 | It seems that the other staff member had never spoken to her employer on the subject , though she had opportunity to do so . |
| 16 | AND she chatted to her mother on the telephone every day . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm perfectly all right , ’ she snapped abruptly , feeling the ketch respond to her tug on the rudder . |
| 18 | At last she wound down like an old-fashioned gramophone and rolled onto her back on the grass feeling exhausted . |
| 19 | She died with her husband on the next day , only a few hours after writing her letter . |
| 20 | I shall not sleep , she told herself , I must not sleep , and shivered in her nightdress on the edge of the single bed , afraid to reach up to the hook for her dressing gown . |
| 21 | She continued to live in her house on the Lung'Arno , patronizing scientists and literary figures , and holding nightly receptions at which she expected to be treated with the etiquette due to reigning royalty . |
| 22 | In the dark , panic-stricken by what she 'd done , she ran down the wrong passage , towards the sea instead of towards the land , slipped and fell to her death on the rocks below . ’ |
| 23 | Her shoulders shook convulsively and she rolled to her side on the bed , curling up . |
| 24 | Violet lay on her belly on the bed . |
| 25 | She lay on her back on the grass within the avenue made by the great standing stones , between the ninth and tenth of them on the northern side . |
| 26 | Miranda lay on her stomach on the kilim rug ; it was patterned in ochre and the same faded blue as Adam 's flared jeans and shirt . |
| 27 | She lay on her stomach on the flat piece of tin someone had put there , a long time ago , to repair the gully in the middle of the wooden roof . |
| 28 | Two weeks into the new season Rose Lipman , sitting in her office on the first floor , heard a cry pitched like the squeal of a snared rabbit coming from No.1 dressing-room . |
| 29 | ’ Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and of having nothing to do ; once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading , but it had no pictures or conversations in it' and what is the use of a book' thought Alice , 'without pictures or conversation ? ' . ’ |
| 30 | Araminta paused with her foot on the step . |