Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Trish , who has been representing her country for the last twelve years with such good horses as Manifesto and Michelangelo , only allows her horses to compete on decent surfaces . |
2 | Ms Sultana , 34 , met her husband for the first time that day . |
3 | She met her aunt for the first time and was invited to spend a holiday with her . |
4 | ‘ We will want to monitor her health for the next month or two at least before letting her return to England . ’ |
5 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |
6 | As she clambered over the steep Alpine meadows with Portia , she told her friend for the first time about Thomas and how he had helped her when she had nowhere to go . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | He undid her nightgown and admired her body for the first time . |
9 | World No 1 Monica Seles began her bid for a third consecutive title by crushing a hopelessly outclassed Nathalie Tauziat 6–1 , 6–2 . |
10 | In a postscript Eliza somewhat enigmatically mentions her pregnancy for the first time : |
11 | He saw her as he called her name for the third time . |
12 | Outside in the street I took her hand for the first time . |
13 | Meanwhile I saw her breasts for the first time . |
14 | She gave her orders for the next week 's farm work and then turned to one of the men . |
15 | He jerked her case upright , tight-lipped , and put it by the door for her , but relaxed in exasperated pity as he watched her start to check her handbag for the third time . |
16 | Eddie 's death had been a nightmare that had haunted her family for the last ten years . |
17 | Sheldukher stared down at her suddenly , as if registering her presence for the first time . |
18 | Hilda left her country for the first time at the age of 63 to talk to human rights organizations , politicians and solidarity groups . |
19 | The almost wordless scene in which Ma Joad , packing her belongings for the last time , comes across a pair of old earrings and tries them on , recalling some long forgotten happiness , is as touching as anything he ever directed . |
20 | PETRA KRONBERGER begins her campaign for a fourth consecutive title when the women 's World Cup Alpine ski season opens in Park City , Utah , this weekend . |
21 | Some similar process in Ursula presumably explained her willingness for the first time to discuss arrangements for the funeral , which they agreed should be held as soon as possible . |
22 | Breeze , wedged in a corner of the crowded third-class compartment , cautiously massaged her left arm , which was cramped , and tried to wriggle away from her portly neighbour , whose big fur collar had been tickling her neck for the last half-hour . |
23 | Beth never took her eyes off the little group ; Cissie , who was now a young lady of exceptional prettiness and who was hugging her brother for the umpteenth time ; and Beth 's own son Richard … now six years old and growing more like Tyler every day ; and David , a quiet man , a man who was too gentle , a man still dominated by the monster who had raised him . |