Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [prep] her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ drift into a law and order society ’ which Hall identifies did not by any means begin with the accession to power of the Conservative Party under Mrs Thatcher in 1979 , and its effects have hardly disappeared with her resignation in 1990 , but the ideology made its presence most felt in her heyday in the early to mid-1990s ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 2 | Hattie Jacques was the matron , a part so suited to her size and manner that the very occupation of hospital head nurse might have been created for her , let alone the role in ‘ Carry On ’ films . |
| 3 | When he came to look at the poem Miss Gilberd had intended to teach , Toby rather wondered at her judgement . |
| 4 | She was awoken , what seemed only minutes later , by a heavy weight suddenly landing on her chest . |
| 5 | Maura closed her eyes , a knot of fear already forming in her stomach . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've probably lain like that with dozens of women , ’ she threw back at him , not caring what she said as long as she could exorcise the intimate pictures still flashing through her mind . |
| 7 | It could n't have been Gloria , for Gloria knew that Dot always slept in her vest and knickers . |
| 8 | The Merseyside musician acknowledged as one of today 's finest brass players had the instrument specially made in her honour by the Miraphone Company . |
| 9 | As she lay listening to the sound of the grown-ups ’ laughter coming through the wall , Dot felt round the sharp tin edges of her victory brooch still pinned to her cardigan front and remembered how Gloria had once said you 'd always be safe in a place like this . |
| 10 | His blue eyes still fixed on her face , he continued blandly , ‘ But one should never look for leprechauns alone . |
| 11 | ‘ I imagine , ’ Alexandra said with difficulty , her swimming eyes still fixed on her plate , ‘ that in most households , people of twenty-one are not required to eat food they detest as if they were children . ’ |
| 12 | Sitting alone at her kitchen table , Kelly read the last words ever written by her father . |
| 13 | I remember the evening when Millie mysteriously fell in her room and broke her wrist . |
| 14 | It still survives ( 1990 ) , but St Margaret 's chapel in Harwood Dale , which Hoby also built to her memory , is in ruins . |
| 15 | In the early evening , Hari restlessly drew on her shawl . |
| 16 | So , like Prince Charles and thousands of less well known amateur artists , Kylie now sits at her easel and loses herself in another world . |
| 17 | When at last his lean fingers framed her face , tense against her skin and his eyes silently pleaded for her acquiescence , she finally found her voice . |
| 18 | Her mother was still sleeping and Maureen hastily drank a cup of tea then returned to her ambulance . |
| 19 | ‘ Mercy me ! ’ uttered Mrs Diggory , sitting down plump on the bed , her eyes almost popping from her head . |
| 20 | She pushed a cigarette between her dry lips then fumbled in her coat pocket for a lighter and , cupping her trembling fingers around the flame , lit it and inhaled deeply . |
| 21 | But that morning she had discovered just who ‘ Cousin Naylor ’ was , and , even though she was feeling more than a mite rebellious at his ‘ … it might be in your interests not to see him again' , she did n't want to put her job in jeopardy should Naylor Massingham happen to be passing , and observe Travis 's car again parked at her apartment block . |
| 22 | With this intention firmly planted in her mind , she headed for the back stairs leading down into the kitchens . |
| 23 | ‘ Goodni — ’ But she stumbled over the final syllable , for suddenly his dark head was leaning towards her and she felt his lips lightly brush against her cheek . |
| 24 | He saw Maud once in the Kurfûrstendamm , eating alone in a cafe and looking a little desolate , with a stack of coins already piled beside her plate although her meal had only just come . |
| 25 | She was in the shower when another , even more perplexing question suddenly popped into her mind . |
| 26 | Katherine unconsciously reverted to her childhood tactics , withdrew , tried to make herself small , invisible . |
| 27 | Though the Privy Council finally ruled in her favour in 1637 , the patent fell foul of rising hostility to all such courtly monopolies and was blocked by the City of London . |
| 28 | The grandchildren always bathed in her kitchen rather than at home , and she ‘ looked after our heads ’ for lice , while after the bath the blind grandfather ‘ used to tickle our backs with stick in front of fire . ’ |
| 29 | In the safe solitude of her bedroom , Shannon quickly stripped off her dressing-gown and pulled on the lightweight jogging-pants and sweatshirt she 'd travelled in . |
| 30 | That had to be suspicious , and as she went into the hall later to go to her room he followed . |