Example sentences of "[prep] her parent [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Melanie 's aunt might be important if Loretta was going to pursue this line of inquiry : presumably it was she who had brought up the girl after her parents ' death in the plane crash . |
| 2 | Pamela said she had not done much thinking about her parents ' attitudes . |
| 3 | ‘ . The report concluded with the girl denying suggestions from the defence that ‘ she was a willing sexual partner , and made-up the story because of fears about her parent 's reaction ’ . |
| 4 | Mr Peter the consultant orthopaedic surgeon who tended her first immediately after the accident at Hinchinbrook and thereafter in the year from April nineteen eighteen eight as well as seeing her from time to time since , had this to say about her parent 's efforts quote I think that without their constant support and stimulation and their determination that Anna Jane would function again as a rational human being . |
| 5 | Susie Novis of Castlegate , Scarborough , had the photos in a box in the car ready to make a presentation for her parents ' golden wedding anniversary today . |
| 6 | Caro got off the near-empty Sunday bus and walked quickly through the light drizzle towards her parents ' house . |
| 7 | Their 10-year-old daughter , Jessica , who is likely to be seen with her head buried in The Beano or a Roald Dahl novel , has provided the inspiration for many of her parents ' books . |
| 8 | He took a cab to Park Lane , and knocked on the door of her parents ' house . |
| 9 | Away from the slightly protected environment of her parents ' home , Dawn 's return to independent life was complete . |
| 10 | She felt suddenly dirtied by death , ashamed of the knowledge she had gained when she witnessed the cessation of breathing that marked the end of her parents ' lives , sad and sullied by the separations she had lived through . |
| 11 | In Jenny 's situation , the dread of violence and the potential disintegration of her parents ' marriage has made her flee from any potential aggression . |
| 12 | If he mentioned moving out of her parents ' house , she dissolved into tears . |
| 13 | In the case of carers who have their own children this is easier to see than for the classic ( and disappearing ) case of the single daughter who was presumed to be childless ; although in that case the assumption in the past was that the single daughter would be rewarded in material terms through being the major beneficiary of her parents ' will , if they had money or property to bequeath . |
| 14 | Diana no longer felt so different because of her parents ' divorce but because a voice inside her told her that she would be separate from the herd . |
| 15 | Elsie Stringer thought the analogy unfortunate , but typical of her parents ' attitude towards the school . |
| 16 | In her designer tracksuit of vivid mauve and gold , her Reebok bumpers and man 's leather flying jacket , she looked the complete opposite of her parents ' idea of dressed up . |
| 17 | She fingered the boxes with a furtive secrecy , like a child rooting among the holly-wrapped parcels hidden away on top of her parents ' wardrobe . |
| 18 | For the next two years she was supposed to spend five hours a day lying flat on her back on an old Flemish seat in the hall of her parents ' London house . |
| 19 | After Schloss Hartheim , which seemed to go on for ever , the three of us moved out of her parents ' house and came down here to Munich and its Alpine air . |
| 20 | Soon after her birth and the subsequent celebrated break-up of her parents ' marriage , she became famous through the lines of Byron 's poem ‘ Childe Harold ’ ( canto 3 , lines 1–5 ) : |
| 21 | She 'd always believed in the strength of her parents ' marriage , the power of its mutual affection . |
| 22 | Maisie had moved out of her parents ' house and come to stay at the Wilsons ' shortly after her mother 's funeral , a multi-denominational affair dominated by the headmaster of the Wimbledon Independent Islamic Boys ' School ( Day ) . |
| 23 | In a dream-like trance , Laura drifted through the service and the reception , which was held in a large marquee in the garden of her parents ' old home in Devon . |
| 24 | backed out of her parents ' drive |
| 25 | Despite her parents ' invitation to Harry to stay with them in London while he was back in England , he 'd written to say that he had already promised to go to Bertie Alcott 's home in Cadogan Square . |
| 26 | At Eccles Church of England High School , near her parents ' home at Peel Green , she shone on the sports field . |
| 27 | Caroline Bell , 25 , who taught psychology at Stafford University , was riding her gelding , Beadle , near her parents ' home at Milford , Surrey . |
| 28 | The 16-year-old girl went into her parents ' bedroom at 11pm to wake her father when he grabbed a revolver at his bedside and fired twice . |
| 29 | She delightedly moves back into her parents ' house , and lies there , among golden-winged angels . |
| 30 | With her parents ' move to the Isle of Aran , Jakki had next to no money for food after she 'd paid her rent . |