Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [prep] her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I duly called at her house in Thistle Street . |
| 2 | I now sat by her bedside and worked out ratios . |
| 3 | Mandy and Debby looked the part all right , they looked tough enough for this , particularly Debby , who gave me so much eye-contact and hand-on-knee and dressing-gown disclosure that I almost asked for her telephone number . |
| 4 | Her husband Reggie was not a strong believer , and it was only at his persistent insistence that Joyce sought medical advice on the eye cancer which eventually led to her death . |
| 5 | ‘ We 'll go out and eat , ’ she said quickly , ‘ I 'll get ready , ’ and she twisted away to the bathroom , which also served as her wardrobe , and slammed the door to leave me alone with McIllvanney and Bellybutton . |
| 6 | He would return to her , to beg her pardon for so basely misjudging her , and they would find again the former ease of friendship , the lack of which now gaped in her life like an open wound . |
| 7 | A fish and chip shop owner called me in to deal with the lower half of a long-skirted ancestor which often glided through her kitchen . |
| 8 | Recently seen opposite Warren Beatty in the title role of the re-released Lilith as a mentally ill girl suffering from ‘ nymphomania ’ , Seberg was hounded by an FBI dirty tricks campaign after her vocal support for the Black Panthers movement , which reportedly led to her suicide in 1979 . |
| 9 | Though she still knew she was obscurely to blame , that when Tommaso lifted her onto the bar stool with his big hands which almost met under her rib cage , the current was live in the air around them , and Rosa would not have liked it . |
| 10 | Rabbits , foxes and other woodland creatures were regularly seen on the lawns while the frequent sea frets which softly curled around her sash windows were evidence that the Norfolk coast was only six miles away . |
| 11 | Her heart was pounding fearfully as she slowly looked over her shoulder . |
| 12 | Sam recovered in the third set from 1–3 to lead 5–4 , but she was unable to close out the match against a tough opponent who rarely deviated from her game plan of staying back and slugging it out from the baseline . |
| 13 | She was so impressed she apparently forgot about her appointment with Mrs Major , who was waiting patiently in the Savoy powder room . |
| 14 | Finding that Mary Read was totally in control of all work out there , she swiftly gave in her notice . |
| 15 | Then she suddenly slapped at her apron pocket . |
| 16 | Robbie had been hungry when she got home from work , but now she only toyed with her food . |
| 17 | ‘ Some books , ’ she finally murmured into her teacup , while she tried quietly to increase the distance between her and the tea pourer . |
| 18 | It was important for Oreste 's sake to keep good relations and so with a good deal of lip-biting and general effort of control she finally wrote to her sister in most moderate terms expressing surprise , confessing intense distress , but apportioning no blame . |
| 19 | This was the year she finally emerged from her shell to win every round in a public relations battle she was determined should go her way . |
| 20 | I humoured the old lady , who soon went on her way . |
| 21 | She just looked through her pony 's ears at where she hoped he would land . |
| 22 | the last sixteen days she just lived on her drip . |
| 23 | She scarcely heard in her humiliation . |
| 24 | And erm she always thought of her husband as daddy . |
| 25 | Finally she made her choice and gave the reasons for it with the confidence she always brought to her work . |
| 26 | She hurried next door to get the spare one she always left with her neighbour , then let herself inside and sank down wearily on the bottom of the stairs . |
| 27 | With cautiously gloved hands , Ace flicked through papers from a locked cabinet , which she had opened by means of a knife she usually concealed in her boot . |
| 28 | Barely waiting for a reply , Candy all but ran off down the garden path , leaving Rory feeling more alone and more vulnerable than she ever had in her life . |
| 29 | Fifteen minutes later , however , and Fabia 's anger , like her shower water , had drained away , and she was feeling unhappier than she ever had in her life . |
| 30 | This was the only complaint she ever made to her husband . |