Example sentences of "[prep] her [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bridget looked after her son for the first eighteen months before getting a job so he recognises her as his mother , whereas it could be quite easy for a baby to start calling its grandmother " Mum " . |
| 2 | What about her version of the third sentence : It 's beautiful to look at , wonderful to smell , as well as being extremely soft to touch . |
| 3 | She never bought more , nor less , than she would need for her housekeeping for the next 24 hours . |
| 4 | Mr Justice Ian Kennedy said he wanted to know about arrangements for her supervision over the next two years . |
| 5 | The smaller girl was already quietly repeating the words of her song for the twentieth time . |
| 6 | She had lain in her child 's bed and become aware of the reality of her heart for the first time as its beat quickened in response to the sparrow 's wild meanderings . |
| 7 | A woman has the right to stop work until her child is three and gets a third of her salary for the first 18 months . |
| 8 | She was beside herself , shouting at the top of her voice for the second time that day . |
| 9 | The importance of the role she was now , willy-nilly , being forced to play in European affairs , in spite ( or perhaps because ) of her increasing weakness and inefficiency , is shown by the great though indirect and unsought significance of her part in the first partition of Poland ( see pp. 273ff ) . |
| 10 | Helynsar ran well in the later stages of her race at the last meeting when Treat Me Good scored and she may be worth following against a moderate lot in the Moira Novices Chase . |
| 11 | In addition , the Treasury has offered an ex gratia payment of £580 to Ms Anouschka Zagorski , studying law at King 's College , London , to reimburse the cost of her fees for the last academic year . |
| 12 | As one of her companions on the last CND march had said , ‘ When the bomb drops you ca n't say : This had nothing to do with me . ’ |
| 13 | Although an unhappy liaison with Rodin consumed much of her attention during the next several years , she did produce many drawings , among them most of her famous cat studies , and at least a dozen paintings . |
| 14 | Here is a transcript of her narration to the Fourth InterGalactic Council , made in the Age of CKAMP |
| 15 | The wind was taken out of her sails in the first two minutes when Oswin handed her a hundred pounds . |
| 16 | She says she wept nonstop for an hour during which she gradually began to realize that she had been out of her mind for the last six weeks . |
| 17 | With a hopeless shrug of resignation she hurriedly put on a slim linen dress , which she had only thrown into her case at the last minute . |
| 18 | The ball scooted into her goal for the ninth time , and Nick whooped with delight . |
| 19 | He had looked directly into her face for the first time and she saw his dark eyes blaze with a mixture of anger and pain . |
| 20 | Steffi Graf sailed through until Sanchez-Vicario whipped the rug from under her feet in the last four . |
| 21 | At the [ material ] time the plaintiff had come from the back door of the house and had walked diagonally across the first concrete area ; she was intending to go and have a chat with her neighbour at the next house . |
| 22 | The courtesies to be shown are seen at their best when Aurora dances with her Prince in the last act of The Sleeping Beauty . |
| 23 | In England , James Robertson ( 1953 , 1958 ) , a colleague of Bowlby 's at the Tavistock Clinic , started a campaign to persuade children 's hospital wards to admit mothers together with their children , or at least not to restrict visiting in any way ; some hospitals welcomed the idea , others resisted it , but meanwhile a Government committee was set up which in 1959 published the ‘ Platt Report ’ on the welfare of children in hospital , recommending ‘ that all hospitals where children are treated will adopt the practice of unrestricted visiting , particularly for children below school age ’ , that ‘ it is particularly valuable for the mother to be able to stay in hospital with her child during the first day or two ’ , and that ‘ children should not be admitted to hospital if it can possibly be avoided ’ . |
| 24 | By and large they bore out what the girl 's uncle claimed — that it was with their consent , or even connivance , that the girl had gone to live with her uncle in the first place . |
| 25 | The girl noticed Wightman while waiting with her boyfriend for the last train . |
| 26 | His sister had come over with her family from the next valley and was standing just behind him ; Shaun had flown home as well , a taller , broader Wayne-that-might-have-been , but he had n't yet come out of the church . |
| 27 | She died with her husband on the next day , only a few hours after writing her letter . |
| 28 | Belinda Jones , ’ the owner of the name said simply , and waited while Dr Russell 's sister seemed to fully take in her presence for the first time . |
| 29 | Mrs Beveridge cared for Leanne 's two children in her home for the first 24 hours of the siege . |
| 30 | She made her way to the second floor , her frown deepening as she looked about her , properly taking in her surroundings for the first time . |