Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] her [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ She went back to work very quickly after her operation and if she goes on with her busy life as she fully intends to do , she needs a day or two off occasionally . |
2 | ‘ It must be got rid of even if it means that the Prime Minister goes down with her own flagship ’ . |
3 | She looks down at her shopping-and-memo list , to find a nearer focus . |
4 | ROSANNE was n't over-enamoured with this little lot when she 'd finished it , considering it too sugary and poppy , but it stands up as her finest album to date . |
5 | Juanita sits in the kitchen and looks up with her embarrassed half-smile/half-laugh when I bend down and step inside . |
6 | Between Ourselves , the respected photographic artist Mari Mahr , looks back on her Hungarian upbringing and the cultural identities that have shaped her knowledge of her three subjects : her grandmother , mother and daughter ( until 8 Feb ) . |
7 | AS SOON as she arrives back from her American lecture tour tonight , Mrs Thatcher will head straight for a glittering parlour in central London . |
8 | Using powerful images of confinement and liberty it tells of the romantic but misguided attachment of Sibella , whose defiance towards her restrictive education leads on to her sexual maturity and death . |
9 | As I move and start to nestle my shin against a calf whose muscles are loosened by sleep , she senses what I 'm doing , and without waking reaches up with her left hand and pulls the hair off her shoulders on to the top of her head , leaving me her bare nape to nestle in . |
10 | ‘ But I think it ties in with her romanticized view of the world ; if she did n't talk about her problems , then she did n't have any . ’ |
11 | Two novels of the 1720s point the contrast in public attitudes to the American colonies of the two countries in an odd way : the Abbé Prévost 's Manon Lescaut and Daniel Defoe 's Moll Flanders are about prostitutes , both of whom are transported to the new world , but Manon dies from exposure in the arms of her faithful des Grieux after walking six miles from New Orleans , while Moll Flanders settles down with her fifth husband to reckon her net worth in cash and tobacco before returning from Virginia to London . |
12 | A Mickey Dolenz lookalike beats out bongo rhythms frontstage to complement their dance grooves , while vocalist Stella dances around in her multicoloured cat suit , not yet the most comfortable of performers but there 's enough spirit in the band to suggest their debut waxings will be well worth checking out . |
13 | A Mickey Dolenz lookalike beats out bongo rhythms frontstage to complement their dance grooves , while vocalist Stella dances around in her multicoloured cat suit , not yet the most comfortable of performers but there 's enough spirit in the band to suggest their debut waxings will be well worth checking out . |
14 | Moving with the easy gliding movement that is second nature Liessa sets off towards her own dragon , Laolith , who turns his great horsey head towards her . |
15 | She walks up to her front door , a picture of sophistication in her Armani suit . |
16 | Before her a seated , lightly clothed figure leans back on her straight arm with the other lifted in mid gesture . |
17 | In the end the woman chooses to renounce both men and sets out on her own path . |
18 | I suggest that she does as I have done , pops down to her local computer shop and purchases an anti-static bracelet and strap . |
19 | Her love and zest for life comes out in her unique correspondence and notes made during the momentous first east-west crossing of the Atlantic of the Graf Zeppelin LZ.127 . |