Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] her [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaning on me , she had an arm free to wave her stick at the horizon . |
| 2 | It was wrong to leave her family in the first place , wrong , having come here to go on leading the life she did . ’ |
| 3 | While your child is splashing about in the sunshine , be very careful to protect her skin from the sun 's rays , which can still burn her even in the water . |
| 4 | The elegant one turned the neatly-coiffed head on her long neck and looked apprehensively around the room , careful to suppress her alarm at the primitive scene into which she had intruded . |
| 5 | Rita , who was too afraid to show her face to the cameras , divorced her husband after she was forced to take part in an arranged marriage , a practice she believes is barbaric and almost as bad as prostitution . |
| 6 | Avoiding his suddenly intent look , Sabine transferred her attention across the road . |
| 7 | She started down the stairs , her steps deliberately unhurried , breathing deeply to calm her twanging nerves , and paused for an instant to scrutinise her reflection in the massive gilt-framed mirror that hung above the banisters . |
| 8 | She did n't want to explain that she had been too nervous to go in the kitchen and cook it , too lily-livered to turn her back to the window as she lit the gas , too timorous to cause even the tiny sounds of roasting game . |
| 9 | But the hysteric purchased her escape from the effects of frequent sexual demands on her life only at the cost of pain , disability and an intensification of women 's traditional dependence . |
| 10 | Labour 's John Aberdeen talked to colleagues at the Scottish Labour Party Conference ; the Conservative candidate , Hampshire barrister Dr Paul McCormick , made an immediate and thorough study of the circumstances surrounding the removal of the children , and Frances McKie for the Scottish National Party was quick to express her horror of the Social Work Department 's actions . |
| 11 | A mistress too ill to keep her eye on the books ! |
| 12 | His humiliation was smaller than that to which the country had been subjected on being invaded by Napoleon in 1812 , but so was the likelihood that Russia would be able to reverse her defeat in the near future . |
| 13 | Ibn Fayoud and his blonde of the day ; Annie , hardly able to conceal her astonishment at the way Kelly had been able to ride after the events of the previous night ; Bill himself , flushed and more inarticulate than ever . |
| 14 | In her flat with Anne , and in the taxi , she had been able to conceal her pain from the older woman . |
| 15 | A baby tethered one in the most relentless way , even a mother who was lucky enough to be able to leave her infant in the hands of others . |
| 16 | Practically torn apart by conflicting loyalties — and with Ross refusing to accept the idea that she might , somehow , be able to divide her life between the two continents — Laura had n't known what to do . |
| 17 | Unable to read her watch in the gloom , she asked , ‘ What time is it ? ’ |
| 18 | No possible confusion of identities could have occurred since Lady Tynte was able to recognize her favourite by the nobs on its toes , which were unaffected by its change in appearance ( Hunter , 1837 ) . |
| 19 | The patient was ' indeed able to control her pain to the extent that it completely disappeared , and her fear and anxiety disappeared as well . |
| 20 | ‘ You know exactly what I mean , ’ she reproved , too aware that her pleasure in the music had been mirrored on her face more than once during their tour of the nightspots to be able to disavow her delight in the entertainment . |
| 21 | Laura was unable to have her transplant on the NHS so Fran and Les launched an appeal which raised the £350,000 needed to pay for the operation in the US . |
| 22 | Amal 's mother believed her daughter 's story ; although demented with grief , she was unable to convince her husband of the girl 's innocence . |
| 23 | Her immediate thought was to be much concerned about her job , and then very much concerned that , without this splendidly paying job , she would be unable to pay her share of the mortgage . |
| 24 | From here she would be able to make her way to the shopping areas , which were primarily reserved for pedestrian traffic . |
| 25 | I discovered that , for instance , one of our students was unable to propel her wheelchair up the ramped entrance to our annexe , a former special school building , without the dangerous likelihood of tipping backwards . |
| 26 | It was difficult to see her backside in the mirror , but she could make out the pink weals which had been raised on her tender white bum-cheeks by the little squirt . |
| 27 | However , this year Mildred was older and hopefully wiser ( at any rate she was more full of good intentions than ever ) and she was quite determined to lose her reputation as the worst witch in the school . |
| 28 | And suddenly Morse knew where the body had been launched into the river and into eternity ; knew , too , that if Lucy Downes could so quickly arouse the rather sluggish libido of a Lewis , then it was hardly difficult to guess her effect upon the lively carnality of a Kemp . |
| 29 | She found it very difficult to get her tongue round the unfamiliar words . |
| 30 | Shelley was surprised to find her chief in the medical centre . |