Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was my job to bury her in the church . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course nothing can be formally arranged just at this present , ’ went on Miss Merchiston , and Theda almost laughed out to see the burgeoning hope in the poor man 's face , ‘ for with dear Mama in this sad condition , I could not reconcile it with my conscience to leave her in the care of other hands . |
| 3 | Apart from the shock that her GP saw her in the same light as his aged mother , Marie has never looked back . |
| 4 | Her sons kissed her on the forehead . |
| 5 | He touched her breasts , briefly , as if her nakedness confirmed her as the victim . |
| 6 | Her half-sister took her to the police . |
| 7 | His next letter offered her marriage to save her from the dreadful future of stripping off that she would be subjected to otherwise . |
| 8 | Her obligations stared her in the face , but she did not flinch ! |
| 9 | Despairing of ever finding any use for her , her parents sold her to the military , a callous practice common in the commercially minded years of the mid-twenty-fourth century . |
| 10 | At the chilly boarding-school to which her parents sent her in the mistaken belief that she would be less lonely among girls of her own age , the prizes for mathematics — a subject which she did n't particularly care for but which came easily to her — were framed reproductions of the works of Italian painters . |
| 11 | This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living . |
| 12 | No matter what undercurrents had passed between them last night , it had been true enough that it was la Principessa who 'd sent her grandson to collect her at the Sala dell'Arte . |
| 13 | She was part of a team and content to be just that ; she did n't want to have to leave the protective colouring her job gave her in the safety of the laboratory . |
| 14 | It had been uppermost in her mind to ask about Marc , but her courage failed her at the last . |
| 15 | Mrs. O'Brien said that she believed what her husband told her about the company doing well and having good potential , but she was concerned for her son and felt that it was only for three weeks , and if it would do the trick , she would sign . |
| 16 | David looked down at her as she lay against the white pillows , pale and thinner than ever , and thought how much easier it would be to keep himself in check if her husband treated her with the gentleness she deserved . |
| 17 | As Carole 's hand felt gingerly for the light switch , her husband grabbed her round the waist and buried his face in her neck , making growling noises as he did so . |
| 18 | We talked a little till her cries took her into the little theatre . |
| 19 | Her escort followed her into the sitting-room . |
| 20 | Only the pressure of his hand behind her head anchored her in the rushing of the storm . |
| 21 | They had always done their best to help Eva switch off during her breaks taking her to the Great Barrier Reef , Tropical Tablelands , coast , islands — wherever they could manage . |
| 22 | Tracey laughed , and put his hand under her elbow to guide her into the cinema . |
| 23 | Then he put a hand on her elbow to guide her to the door . |
| 24 | The only other alternative would be to ask her father to collect her from the party , and , at twenty , that would be too embarrassing for words ! |
| 25 | Amidst the noise of children shouting , women calling across the alley , and dogs barking , Sarah seemed to hear her father condemning her for the way she had behaved these last months , and her misery grew . |
| 26 | She had heard tales of the sunshine , the flowers and bright colours of the upper world , but her father warned her of the perils that haunted the surface , in particular the giants that in those days walked the wilds of Dartmoor . |
| 27 | Her father accompanied her into the dining-room and though he made a pretence of eating , he barely touched the food on his plate . |
| 28 | Far from engineering the union , as has been widely suspected , her grandmother advised her about the difficulties of marrying into the royal family . |
| 29 | At the same time she knew that her gender isolated her from the ritualised socialising of other senior officers . |
| 30 | She could borrow the grey , using its strength to get her to the nearest village . |