Example sentences of "[verb] her [noun pl] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not , however , when Charlotte sat opposite him in an eerily empty airport cafe and described her experiences in the United States while gazing at him with an expression implying what he most wanted to believe : that she trusted him unreservedly . |
| 2 | She described her studies to the AAAS meeting . |
| 3 | Sylvia had enjoyed her months in the States , but was glad to be going home . |
| 4 | The prosecution at the Old Bailey had alleged the boy attacked her yards from the London police station where she worked . |
| 5 | Bracing her feet against the Angharad 's deck , she fixed her eyes on the grey smudge of land in the distance , willing it to come nearer . |
| 6 | In the course of a second visit , 1790–1 , she composed her Voyages to the Madeira , and Leeward Caribbean Isles : with Sketches of the Natural History of these Islands ( Edinburgh , 1792 ; Salem , 1802 ) , published with the help of William Smellie [ q.v. ] , who praised its ‘ science , minute observation , [ and ] accurate description ’ . |
| 7 | Sighing , she lifted the dustbin lid and watched the brown china pieces slip from the shovel , then raised her eyes to the May sky . |
| 8 | In 1894 she was in a position to build her own home at Munstead Wood and it was Lutyens , sharing her feelings for the Surrey vernacular and the arts and crafts lifestyle , who designed it for her . |
| 9 | The gauntlet of her combat suit protected her fingers from the Dalek Killer 's grip . |
| 10 | She kept her eyes on the McLaren girl and you could see what she was trying to get at . |
| 11 | In 1979 she came to Britain and completed her masters at the London School of Economics . |
| 12 | He gave her dower-lands in the Amienois , near Corbie . |
| 13 | ‘ It is a country with opportunities , ’ said Steve : and off they went again , with their second-hand opinions , their echoes of overheard conversations , their phrases from advertisements and tabloid newspapers : and yet to Shirley there was perhaps something comfortable , despite all , something reassuring about the hands of cards , the button and matchstick money , the green baize of the table , the predictable , ancient jokes , the cigarette ends in the big red ashtray : there was safety here , of a sort , safety in repetition , safety in familiar faces and frustrations , and warmth of a sort , warmth and communion of a sort , society of a sort : the society she had discovered as a teenager , when she would slip surreptitiously out of the icy silence of Abercorn Avenue , where the clock ticked relentlessly on the kitchen wall , where Liz propped her textbooks against the Peek Frean biscuit tin on the kitchen table , where her mother sat in the front room listening to the radio , cutting up newspapers ; she would let herself quietly out of the back door and creep down the passage , past the outside lav , through the back gate , round the corner , and then she would run for it , along Hilldrop Crescent , down The Grove , up Brindleford Drive , and across the main road at the lights to Victoria Street , where Cliff and Steve and their sister Marge lived . |
| 14 | Miss Bosworth , who has worked as a fashion model in a number of counties near her Grantham home , brings her hats to the Darlington area on Wednesday to stage a show in aid of Save the Children . |
| 15 | In 1856 he needed Britain too much to thwart her desires over the Black Sea Clauses of the Treaty and so he accepted them , hoping that it would still be possible eventually to bring about an entente with Russia . |