Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] her [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No — each lady had personally placed her cake on the long table — without assistance . |
| 2 | It takes time and effort for her to do this : constantly tapping her nose on the typewriter is exhausting , but then so is making her noises understood . |
| 3 | He gently held her hand on the table . |
| 4 | Even Margaret Thatcher in her prime could not carry her party on the question of Sundays . |
| 5 | The ballerina here is cleverly perched on a matchbox so that she looks as if she is standing up , but you might find it easier to omit her feet and just stand her flat on the cake board . |
| 6 | That her novels are not better known is due largely to her extreme modesty about her literary abilities ; but there is no doubt that her concise , deceptively light prose style , reliance on dialogue to carry the plot , and delight in satirical exaggeration influenced both Firbank and Evelyn Waugh [ q.v. ] , and that she has thus left her mark on the development of the twentieth-century novel . |
| 7 | Robyn desperately tightened her grip on the statue . |
| 8 | That evening , when Tabitha Jute finally set her hand on the battered aluminium doorknob , it was still a cheerfully disreputable establishment , catering to the social needs of those who felt more comfortable doing business in an environment with a degree of sleaze to it . |
| 9 | Tatum , who has always followed her husband on the tennis circuit , last week stayed in New York while McEnroe took two of the children to Fort Worth , Texas , for the Davis Cup tournament . |
| 10 | Jennie Appleby is still concentrating her time on the Cleveland area . |
| 11 | The only obstacle was Watkin the dung-collector whose own ample wife also had her eye on the role . |
| 12 | But I took the insole out put her foot on the insole and her foot goes over the top of it . |
| 13 | Hot , sticky and uncomfortable , she let a particularly easy shot past and angrily threw her racket on the ground . |
| 14 | Then it would be Bridewell at least , if they did n't stretch her neck on the gallows . |
| 15 | She crept downstairs , holding the green enamel candlestick high above her head so that she did n't lose her footing on the narrow wooden stairs . |
| 16 | If you live round the corner from Mary Whitehouse could you pop in and tell her that her phone is off the hook she has n't replaced the receiver and she she 's quite an elderly lady and I would would be terribly upset if if she had n't got her phone back cos she might need it for emergencies or something like that and I am a caring concerned person so could you could you pop round the corner to Mary 's house and tell her that she has n't put her phone on the hook off the hook properly could you do that ? |
| 17 | ‘ And how 's your mother , Shirley ? ’ asked Mrs Harper , carefully and conspicuously laying her clove on the side of her plate ; taking the offensive . |
| 18 | Ada Neumann shook her head in resignation and once again concentrated her attention on the speaker . |
| 19 | Adam firmly replaced her arm on the pillow . |
| 20 | Even when she later encountered more difficulties , she tried all sorts of positions , but never changed her grip on the hammer . |
| 21 | But she could never keep her mind on the job . |