Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [verb] her [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The Movement came to her aid by sending her on a secretarial course and finding her a part-time job with a City accountant .
2 It will decide on April 29 whether the Daily Express and the Independent invaded family privacy by naming her as the girl in the broadcast .
3 A HOSPITAL technician killed his heavily pregnant wife by hanging her from a garage roof beam , it was alleged in court yesterday .
4 Confuse a waitress by asking her for a Big Mac and chips ?
5 They no doubt thought that they were fulfilling their filial duty by providing her with an outing and ‘ treat ’ .
6 A BRUTE punished his four-year-old step-daughter by spinning her in a tumble-drier , a court heard yesterday .
7 Notebooks in hand , they listened beside her hospital bed as she told of how her attacker stripped her , tied her hands behind her back , and turned her into a human rag doll by dumping her in a city rubbish skip .
8 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 .
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