Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] her [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Odd-Knut 's girlfriend lowered her oar into the water and it hit something hard . |
| 2 | The distraught protest ended in a sharp cry as fitzAlan 's open hand flashed out , striking her cheek with enough force to whip her head to the side . |
| 3 | The snorting of a horse drew her attention to the right , and she saw Scathach 's stolen mount , roughly tethered . |
| 4 | Fran forced herself to sound cool and friendly , to betray no hint of the fear twisting her heart at the thought of what she might discover . |
| 5 | 5 Continuing the pressure , the defender forces her attacker to the floor . |
| 6 | The fragments that remain take the form of the ceremony of the Churching of Women after childbirth , that is , that after forty days of confinement , the woman goes to church for a ritual to mark her return to the community . |
| 7 | As the superintendent cut her way through the herd of lunchtime drinkers , Dexter followed in her wake , like a driver who glues himself to the back of an ambulance careering through busy streets on an emergency call . |
| 8 | A dim night-light cast her shadow against the closed double doors she knew opened on to his rooms . |
| 9 | A child , allowed to stay up and watch the ball 's beginning , stared wide-eyed from a balcony , while the Countess tapped her stick on the parquet floor in time to the music . |
| 10 | By accepting the jurisdiction of an external authority in domestic matters , the UK in effect converted her responsibility for the external relations of the Isle of Man into a total responsibility for its internal affairs , and abrogated by a sidewind the semi-independence of the Islands , which are under the Crown but not part of the United Kingdom . |
| 11 | As he knelt at his mother 's feet , the sovereign invested her son with the symbols of office , ‘ by girding him with a Sword … by putting a Coronet on his head … and a Gold Ring on his finger … and also by delivering a Gold Rod into his hand , that he may preside there and may direct and defend those parts to hold to him and his heirs … for ever ’ . |
| 12 | It is the 31-year-old journalist 's second attempt to complete her ascent of the world 's tallest peak after an earlier effort was aborted due to bad weather . |
| 13 | Her success against 31 other drivers in the regional contest won her place in the national final in Bedfordshire later this year . |
| 14 | Long jumper Yinka Idowu from Carterton who competes for the Oxford City club won her place in the team a couple of weeks ago when she won the British title at Sheffield … she only finished third in trials at the weekend but is still regarded as one of our best young athletes … |
| 15 | Long jumper Yinka Idowu from Carterton who competes for the Oxford City club won her place in the team a couple of weeks ago when she won the British title at Sheffield … she only finished third in trials at the weekend but is still regarded as one of our best young athletes … |
| 16 | S said that she needed the car to take her family to the airport and that in any case they were only abroad for one week out of two , so she would need the car again on her return . |
| 17 | More than four months later , the victim of the crime recognized her jewellery in the shop window and told the police . |
| 18 | The judge records her evidence about the circumstances in which she was persuaded to sign in this passage : |
| 19 | So the striped cat made her way to the garden of the tower . |
| 20 | The charged alleged that the girl placed her hand over the baby 's mouth , compressed her nose to the danger of her life , and attempted to murder her . |
| 21 | Her long flaxen hair gave her an almost nordic appearance , her clear unspoilt complexion reflecting her life in the clean country air . |
| 22 | The little girl stopped her game with the dog to sit cross legged , attentive . |
| 23 | Three High Court judges sitting as Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn dismissed her appeal against the tribunal 's finding but varied the sentence to one of suspension for five years . |
| 24 | Weary to her bones , and once more cold to the marrow , Theda stepped down and requested the guard to unstrap her portmanteau from the back . |
| 25 | One little girl dropped her ice-cream in the excitement of it all and began to howl like a banshee . |
| 26 | A scrawny little old lady poked her head from the doorway of a miniature trailer and fervently watched me advancing slowly towards her , moon-faced , a red neon light about my head flashing the word ‘ Sucker ’ on and off . |
| 27 | He heard Lady whine her disappointment as the taller , quicker dog snapped another piece of Frankie 's sandwich from the air and swallowed it in a single gulp . |
| 28 | The old lady dug her spoon into the iced concoction , took a mouthful of it , rolled it round her mouth , swallowed it and said , ‘ Mm ! nice . ’ |
| 29 | The case against Mrs Thatcher as a Conservative includes her impatience with the status quo and her suspicion , indeed rejection , of so many traditions and institutions . |
| 30 | The Queen takes her seat on the River Bus . |