Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] her [noun sg] on the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The Queen takes her seat on the River Bus .
3 He had visions of booking in to the same hotel several weeks running and a knowing clerk saying , ‘ Ah , I see sir has a new Mrs Smith this weekend … ’ as his latest girl flashed her ring on the desk .
4 Rain renewed her grip on the woman .
5 Deaconess Tilley plumped her bag on the table and put herself between Mrs Yaxlee and the window .
6 Once the machine was hissing and the aroma of coffee was spreading through the flat Rain tossed her bag on the couch , kicked off her sandals and opened the doors to the garden .
7 On the few occasions when she had been compelled to enter the water , she had stayed in the very shallowest part of the pool and had never for a moment released her grip on the handrail .
8 Charity dropped her tray on the nearest table .
9 ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ we 'll just have to get to the house and start proving that this particular astrologer has her finger on the button , wo n't we ? ’
10 He then passed it through the letterbox and the baby ate her meal on the freezing patio .
11 And the woman lost her brooch on the way back and she saw this man next morning , he was a policeman in , and he he was too fond of the drink , a and he he was on , he was a railway policeman , and he fell onto the rails , when the train was coming , nobody knows how he how he how he er he lost one arm er about there and the other one about there , both arms but he he survived it .
12 The captain slapped her palm on the desk with a sound like a breaking plate .
13 One very warm morning in June 1936 a young woman left her room on the fourth floor of a pensione at the west end of the Riviera di Chiaia and descended to street level .
14 She got a contract to turn her thesis on the Industrial Novel into a book , and settled enthusiastically to the task .
15 Mum did her machining on the verandah .
16 Once I felt my hand touch her sleeve on the river bottom but I could n't find her . "
17 Leapor focuses her description on the labourers ' experience of the environment :
18 The stone hit her square on the flank and she yelped , but their genitals were so tightly locked together that neither dog could move .
19 ‘ At that time , ’ recalls Vivien , who was the first British player to try her hand on the American Tour , ‘ the LPGA needed all the publicity and good will it could get .
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