Example sentences of "[prep] her [adj] [noun] and [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Marjorie Clarke expressed pleasure at seeing Kay Hampton back after her recent illness and she reported on the good progress being made by Sue Rankin and Miss Elliott who had also been ill . |
| 2 | I never bought that stuff about her ever-expanding conscience and I certainly never bought any of her beauty products . |
| 3 | yeah , well she bought some trainers for her little girl and she does n't want to show her , she did n't know what size to get so she took of it to see what size it was , and I said well Natalie 's a thirteen , that 'll be a thirteen if it fits her . |
| 4 | She had entered into the union for her own reasons and she had taken her marriage vows with no thoughts other than to be a dutiful wife to him and to give him the happiness he deserved . |
| 5 | They said it was for her own protection and they felt she might not surrender to the court . |
| 6 | I was responsible for her very existence and her every form came straight out of my heart . ’ |
| 7 | His letter had not contained any regrets for her forthcoming ordeal and he did not look like a man who would have much patience with women in any case . |
| 8 | Christopher cut through her much-vaunted intelligence and she degenerated into passivity . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's just that you 're so young , ’ Aunt Lilian said gently , over the immeasurable gulf that stretched between her sixty years and mine . |
| 10 | She became quite depressed as she realized the distance between her own knowledge and his . |
| 11 | Dora had told him that Miss Alexandra was but a month short of her twenty-second birthday and he had gone out of the kitchen , scratching his head in disbelief . |
| 12 | Betty Felton now put her head back and looked from one to the other of her four sons and she said , ‘ Aye , there 's a confectioner 's an' baccy shop in that street . |
| 13 | Her eyelids flipped open , and the world was hard-edged , dull and ugly , and so big , so big it squashed the tiny meanings out of sight but still they hovered on the borders of her mental vision and she would have dreamt her way back into that fae¨rie ether but a harsh voice slurred a saw of sound at her . |
| 14 | She gave no indication to her boyfriend or to her father that she had repented of her sinful ways and I have no evidence from the mother to suggest that she had . |
| 15 | Since then she has written to tell us of her first reply and we thought you 'd also be interested in some of the suggestions that came in , including Dee Murton 's account of the origin of these cardboard cones which was news to us . |
| 16 | He shares many of her good qualities and they both deserve all the good things in life . |
| 17 | And , okay , unable to perform any part of her normal occupation and they 're not doing anything else , for which they 're paid , not following any other gainful occupation okay , so definition is , unable to perform any part of their normal occupation , and they 're not following any other gainful employment . |
| 18 | He moved down with sure , erotic touch to stroke the softness of her inner thighs and she stirred under him , her breath beginning to quicken . |
| 19 | She 'd been investigating one of her peculiar groups and she said there was about to be a break-through . |
| 20 | She was draped in a kind of Greek fashion by two of her coloured shawls and she wore round her neck Rachaela 's green glass beads . |
| 21 | I was sure the triptych mirror was one of her own treasures and I opened it carefully to see myself as I brushed my hair and applied a quick dab of lipstick , the red paint which marked me as a Westerner as surely as my blue eyes and blondish hair . |
| 22 | His lips were suddenly gentle against her closed lids and he murmured , ‘ Are you sure ? |
| 23 | She lowered the mug under her own volition and he took it from her . |
| 24 | Carrie 's eyes opened reluctantly as he fumbled with her buttoned dress and she saw the small round damp spot on the ceiling . |
| 25 | That was how she 'd done it — she 'd touched them with her warm love and it had been too much for the Worm 's heart of hatred . |
| 26 | But the eight-time Wimbledon champion lost the first set as the Czechoslovak brought her down with her huge serve and she looked a bag of nerves . |
| 27 | Evelyn took some of these with her little camera and it were n't very good . |
| 28 | She banged on it with her free hand and it was opened by Higgins . |
| 29 | In a shower of diamonds , in a dust cloud of shattered stars , in a bee swarm of broken glass , battered and bleeding , she was hurled face downward onto her own mattress and she lay there and screamed with fear and relief . |
| 30 | The male reaches forward with his seventh leg , collects a bundle of sperm from his sex gland and then clambers alongside the female until it is alongside her sexual pouch and she is able to take it in . |