Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] her [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is Jean Shrimpton standing waif-like in a wrinkled raincoat on Tower Bridge ; or tugging at her oversized jumper , one arm gently loped over her head in the hallway of 91 Heigham Road . |
| 2 | After so much delay and frustration it was being driven at speed , and so zipped across her vision in one swift-moving moment . |
| 3 | Greatly missed since her death in 1986 . |
| 4 | She keeps nothing hidden from Edward , so confident is she of his love and so secure in her belief in the future that lies before them , unconventional and home-based : |
| 5 | Early in the 1950s , Richard Titmuss pointed out that the average working class woman marrying in her teens or early twenties during the 1890s experienced ten pregnancies and spent fifteen years in pregnancy and nursing compared with an average of four years so spent by her counterpart in the years following World War II . |
| 6 | The ‘ drift into a law and order society ’ which Hall identifies did not by any means begin with the accession to power of the Conservative Party under Mrs Thatcher in 1979 , and its effects have hardly disappeared with her resignation in 1990 , but the ideology made its presence most felt in her heyday in the early to mid-1990s ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 7 | Though the Privy Council finally ruled in her favour in 1637 , the patent fell foul of rising hostility to all such courtly monopolies and was blocked by the City of London . |
| 8 | The marriage , which was a political one , took some time to complete , since bride and groom passed a whole month in Saint-Jean before the ceremony ; but when it happened it was very splendid , with much bestowing of jewels , especially by the wealthy minister , Cardinal Mazarin , whose niece Louis had originally been most anxious to marry but who was opportunely exiled by her uncle in the interests of the nation . |
| 9 | A Darlington woman wrote to Mr Tempest at his Wakefield home saying George had been best man at her wedding in 1947 and lived in Pierremont Road . |
| 10 | Her whole family had been involved with the tradition for generations : she had just ridden with her daughter in the procession in a decorated pony and trap ; her son-in-law was the new polemaster ; and her grandson was dancing round the maypole . |
| 11 | It was important for Oreste 's sake to keep good relations and so with a good deal of lip-biting and general effort of control she finally wrote to her sister in most moderate terms expressing surprise , confessing intense distress , but apportioning no blame . |
| 12 | Greta 's still waiting for her knight in shining armour |
| 13 | The ‘ drift into a law and order society ’ which Hall identifies did not by any means begin with the accession to power of the Conservative Party under Mrs Thatcher in 1979 , and its effects have hardly disappeared with her resignation in 1990 , but the ideology made its presence most felt in her heyday in the early to mid-1990s ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 14 | The director had probably taken a room for her there tonight assuming she 'd look for something more suited to her purse in her own time . |
| 15 | Sara curtsied , and backed to the door ; and it was only when it had closed behind her and she was standing on the long , tiled landing that she realized that her future mother-in-law had not once asked about her family in Ireland . |
| 16 | It seemed bizarre to select a washing machine and an electric cooker for the use of some prospective young maid who was still sitting with her family in a Karachi or Lahore back street . |
| 17 | She flounced out of the kitchen , her normal poise and learned elegance deserting her for a moment , and quickly changed into her bikini in the bedroom , her mind buzzing with thoughts of Piers Morrison , and none of them very pleasant . |
| 18 | Richard came forward then to formally ask for her hand in a pavan but , observing that his brother was conversing with his elected bride and catching the latter 's meaningful glance , he cheerfully turned away and asked his sister Cecily instead . |
| 19 | The qualities which make a girl smart and successful at her work would similarly make for her success in the marriage market . " |
| 20 | She also referred to her mother in a slightly dismissive way in the course of two reported interviews . |
| 21 | Sister Marjorie Bell , later decorated for her bravery in the Lewisham Rail Crash was in charge of the case . |
| 22 | Tears are clearly woven through her life in a natural way . |
| 23 | There the police said that Lucy Chamberlain had been identified after the shooting by documents in her handbag and by her distinctive clothing ; clothing later confirmed by her father in a telephone call from the police . |
| 24 | I duly called at her house in Thistle Street . |
| 25 | But the mother-of-three is now recovering at her home in Dalkey near Dublin and expects to have to wear a lightweight cast for only another five weeks . |
| 26 | Who really cares about her work in Sri Lanka ? |
| 27 | She was in hospital for almost a year and now lives with her son in an adapted bungalow for disabled people run by social services in Gwent . |
| 28 | Still actively politically , she now lives with her boyfriend in a one-bed apartment in Atlanta . |
| 29 | She stared at her reflection and saw a woman whom the gods were now punishing for her temerity in declaring she would never be in the grip of uncontrollable emotion , and here she was … here she was … |
| 30 | The commissioner now appeals to Her Majesty in Council . |