Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was certainly hard to see much in her parents ' relationship ; it seemed to Caro now a sad empty thing . |
| 2 | Researchers found that on a day when an ‘ insular ’ mother reported having an argument with another adult before she was observed at home with her child , she was more likely to behave unpleasantly towards her child ( Wahler and Graves 1983 ) . |
| 3 | However when the party broke up and he offered her a lift home , she was quick to negotiate secretly with her hostess for her bike to remain unmentioned in the stairwell until she came back the next day to collect it . |
| 4 | Indeed Saifullah Khan was able to report even from her data collected in the mid-1970s that some recent migrants , especially those best equipped to survive in Britain economically without the support of kin , already were considerably relaxing arrangements based on the purdah system . |
| 5 | Her hair was too short to fall far across her face , so Edward could see her expression , tender and deliberate . |
| 6 | She had a driving licence , which would enable her to drive the practice 's pet-ambulance , but she had never been able to save much from her salary . |
| 7 | Neither had been able to get home for her funeral , but they had telegraphed a big wreath and paid their fair share of the undertaker 's bill , after which the letters and dollars stopped and Vi and Mary had grown even closer . |
| 8 | One detective said : ‘ The girl is absolutely distraught and has found it very difficult to remember much about her attacker . |
| 9 | A BORDON woman drove home from Four Marks after she had been drinking because she was anxious to get home to her child , Alton magistrates were told . |
| 10 | She seemed over-conscious of her position as a step-mother and pitifully anxious to integrate well into her husband 's family . |
| 11 | Her courage flooded back ; but not sufficiently for her to be ready to talk directly to her mother . |