Example sentences of "[to-vb] her [adj] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had to find her own way to the bathroom and was pleased with herself for so quickly remembering that it lay at the end of the passage . |
| 2 | He smiled directly at her and she smiled back to hide her slight embarrassment at the sexuality in the comment , knowing that a few weeks earlier she would have blushed at it . |
| 3 | Francis had never shown any real interest in either side of the business and , as far as the shop was concerned , this had meant that Cathy had been free to go her own way under the old man 's eye . |
| 4 | The terrier allowed himself to be dragged down to lie on the blankets , and Theda was able to see her new mistress in the light afforded by a lamp on her bedside table and a set of two candelabra resting on a nearby chest of drawers . |
| 5 | Tess began to enjoy her new work with the chickens , and the next day in the cottage garden she decided to practise whistling as instructed . |
| 6 | She 'd been to visit her estranged husband at the house the couple used to share at Hardwicke . |
| 7 | Broadway 's Fulton theatre was given her name in 1955 to celebrate her 50th year on the stage but was torn down in 1982 to make way for a hotel . |
| 8 | She had to fit her own routine into the day . |
| 9 | She had ground her way through part-time jobs and four years of medicine and two years of internship without complaining , without ever questioning her dream to help her fellow man in the most noble way she could imagine . |
| 10 | The main motivating force , however , is the Community Mother 's own desire to give support and to help her own community with the knowledge and experience she has gained through her child-rearing . |
| 11 | The last thing she wanted now was to discuss her own behaviour over the past hour — or the past days come to that ! |
| 12 | She said it to cover her tremulous awareness of the fact that she was still in his arms , and began gently to try and pull herself away , but he seemed strangely reluctant to let her go . |
| 13 | Such expressions would fittingly accompany many a sermon and when stricken with a sore throat I have been tempted to invite the Blessed Dawg to assume her two-legged stance within the pulpit , in my stead . |
| 14 | It was clearly to France 's advantage to advance her south-eastern frontier by the acquisition of Savoy and Nice , while the building of railways in the region would give her a strong economic and strategic position in northern and central Italy . |
| 15 | She had no words in which to express her present distaste for the idea . |
| 16 | After a brief , appalled glance at Lydia , Mrs Molesworth ( Lil ) sat down on a corner of the sofa and asked the doctor a question about the imminent agricultural show designed to exclude Lydia from the conversation , to reveal her close knowledge of this event and therefore to illustrate her important position in the local community . |
| 17 | Melissa had been intrigued to know what kind of man could persuade Iris to leave her beloved garden for the best part of a fortnight at the height of the growing season . |
| 18 | Curry , from London , outshone allcomers to retain her British title for the third year running . |
| 19 | In addition the large and perfectly matched pearls outlining the margins of the mitre crown and the balas ruby of 414.3 carats mounted at its apex were enough to proclaim her ready access to the treasures of the orient . |
| 20 | Meryl handed over the last of the spoils , a nail file and some kind of newspaper cutting , then settled in her seat to give her full attention to the lecture . |
| 21 | Obliged to give her full attention to the crowd around her , Rory felt a stab of annoyance dagger-sharp when she finally managed to glance over towards the mystery man 's table , only to discover his seat was empty . |
| 22 | Suppose she puts the coat on a chair with the opening facing upwards : to get the zip at the front , she has to put her right arm into the left-hand sleeve , which means ignoring the nearest armhole . |
| 23 | Although he was still hungry , he decided against asking her for second helpings now that he had forgotten to use her new name at the very first test . |
| 24 | Using the documents as collateral , Onoue borrowed at least 200,000 million yen from 12 financial institutions including the Industrial Bank of Japan ( IBJ ) and Fuji Bank , to finance her heavy investment in the stock market . |
| 25 | ‘ You were saying , Myra , that Claudia is going to model her own design in the show ? ’ he said , his deep voice startling both women . |
| 26 | What a pity she did not discover that all she needed in the first place to remove the ‘ writer 's cramp ’ was to rest her right elbow on the table when writing instead of letting it hang over the edge without support ! |
| 27 | The women were only half-dressed and clutched rags in a pitiful attempt to cover themselves , but a grinning mercenary ripped away the scant tatters of one girl to send her sprawling nude on the cobbles . |
| 28 | Celia Fiennes , in high disgust at finding ‘ froggs and slow-worms and snailes in my roome ’ when lodging in Ely , had the honesty to qualify her personal dislike for the place , which ‘ must needs be very unhealthy , tho' the natives say much to the contrary which proceeds from custom and use ’ . |
| 29 | Thus with their typically lower pay ( see Susan Lonsdale 's chapter in this volume ) and lower lifetime earnings compared with men , the average woman ends up with a lower salary or wage on which to base her final salary for the purposes of working out occupational pension entitlements . |
| 30 | SINEAD Donaghy could n't have chosen a better time to score her first goal of the season . |