Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] [prep] her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wait until September before she starts another novel is mostly owing to her publicity commitments . |
| 2 | The kindness and generosity of the owners has been especially welcomed by one of the readers who is mostly confined to her home . |
| 3 | The number of capsules laid by a female is presumably influenced by her food reserves , her size , her age and various environmental factors . |
| 4 | The following year brought The Miner 's Daughter in which the heroine deserts her working-man husband for the new mine-owner and his lavish apartment ; in time she becomes unhappy but is eventually reclaimed by her husband who storms into a smart reception and virtually throttles the mine-owner . |
| 5 | With regard to the matter of decisiveness mentioned in the question , it is interesting to note the ease with which Mrs McGill 's notional authority in the domestic sphere , in this case ‘ child care ’ , is successfully challenged by her husband : |
| 6 | Elgiva , like Terentia in the earlier play , is powerless : she is effectively sold by her mother and then held prisoner by men intent on raping her . |
| 7 | The Bride strips herself , glowing with pleasure at seeing herself seen , but it is a poor solitary exercise , for she is only impregnated by her imagination . |
| 8 | The significant points to note from this passage are firstly the way in which the blood of delivery is unclean ; secondly the way in which in the case of a boy 's birth circumcision intrudes in the text and interrupts both the period of the mother 's pollution and the account of that pollution ; and thirdly , the way in which the woman is finally cleansed of her impurity through the blood of sacrifice as administered by a circumcised male . |
| 9 | A large woman who is not apologising for her size is certainly not a figure to invite the dominant meanings which our culture attaches to femininity . |
| 10 | ‘ Nor do we see any reason why a wife who is not separated from her husband , even a wife who is still to be regarded as cohabiting with her husband , should lack this protection of the criminal law . |
| 11 | a wife 's income is not included in her husband 's return . |
| 12 | A hostess in tight teeshirt and jeans lingers only long enough to assure Kate discreetly with her eyes that she is not poaching on her territory , smiles velvetly at Jeremy , brings them their drinks . |
| 13 | As a result she is not allowed by her mother to supplement the family income by helping her in the fields , since to be seen doing it would mean she had become an illiterate villager again . |
| 14 | She 's just pointing with her finger . |
| 15 | She might well have owned that it was the other way round and that Rosemary 's husband had been the one to do the leaving , Leith realised , when her mother retorted , ‘ Well , she 's not living at her flat , is she ? |
| 16 | The public relations worker studies these differences , called " profiles " , so that she knows which paper is best suited for her information to get the best response . |
| 17 | Though the whole story is written from Maria 's viewpoint , no mention is ever made of her jealousy . |
| 18 | The victim , aged 44 , is still recovering from her ordeal which happened outside Barclays Bank in Kingsway , Dovercourt , on February 22 . |
| 19 | The bullet is still lodged in her brain . |
| 20 | The text implies that Veronica has tea separately from John as she is still fed by her mother . |
| 21 | A baby is still fighting for her life a week after being critically injured in a road accident in Teesdale . |
| 22 | ‘ She 's always fussing about her food , ’ said Camille . |
| 23 | She 's still living with her mother . |
| 24 | Greta 's still waiting for her knight in shining armour |
| 25 | ‘ Because she 's still fixated with her idea that Old Red 's been carrying a torch for your aunt for years , and it 's now burst into a fine new flame . |
| 26 | Leapor , a poor woman , could not dress to advantage ; indeed , her employers ' low regard for her as a servant is partly related to her appearance . |
| 27 | Twenty-year-old Sarah Murray , another of Corinne Day 's protégés , is similarly relaxed about her career . |
| 28 | Not only do her efforts to assert her freedom from male domination lead her into the hands of another man , but she is also punished for her resistance by having her words deemed valueless , just as today ‘ pseudo-escaperoutes will so lightly turn sado-escape , and … women 's very freedom will so easily be used against them by even moderately clever men ’ ( 12 ) . |
| 29 | Her work is deeply involved with landscape and shows an insight that is also seen in her portraiture . |
| 30 | ‘ She 's really getting past her work and it 'll be a relief when she goes . |