Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] her [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary Moore , 17 , of Chatham , Kent , was starved of oxygen after doctors failed to diagnose her presence in the womb . |
| 2 | Anne tried to hide her eagerness for the idea . |
| 3 | But as she reached him the vision shimmered and disappeared and she was alone , stumbling as she tried to find her way through the shadows of a forest , mist cloaking the branches of the trees . |
| 4 | Ashi tried to reach her daughter in the darkness . |
| 5 | She tried to focus her mind on the words . |
| 6 | Bernice tried to focus her mind on the report , which featured outbreaks of a mystery virus that had wiped out millions in the barrios of Brasilia , Los Angeles and Tycho City . |
| 7 | He tried to imagine her crossing to the phone , sitting down on the chair , legs slightly apart . |
| 8 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |
| 9 | Merrill bent to put her cup on the tray . |
| 10 | Her heart sank as she tried to negotiate her way between the truth and a lie . |
| 11 | She tried to keep her attention on the lines , but they were already swimming off the page . |
| 12 | Turning , walking , lofting up or down tubes on her predetermined course , she tried to keep her mind on the job . |
| 13 | She tried joining her mind to the millions of people everywhere glued to screens for this all important match but all she could see was Colm 's pudgy little legs swinging backwards and forwards and the grim look on his face as she washed away the crusted blood . |
| 14 | She tried to recall her life before the siege and the heads of young officers turning to look at her at the Calcutta racecourse . |
| 15 | Chuck and Joseph , flushed and tousle-haired from their dip , looked in to bid her goodnight , and after they had returned to their hut she tried to resume her book by the lamp . |
| 16 | When Darwin appropriated this evolutionary perspective , and the morally convenient notion of the survival of the fittest , all nature seemed to chorus her approval of the unchallengeable truth of these basic facts of human and animal existence . |
| 17 | Perhaps the old gods had been listening , when she 'd made her wish at the Trevi Fountain . |
| 18 | Laura 's normally warm , full lips tightened in pain , and she gave a heavy sigh as she recalled Liz 's pale , wan face , so terribly bruised and cut when she 'd visited her cousin in the hospital this morning . |
| 19 | They were grappling , and she 'd got her hand on the woman 's windpipe , holding her off , squeezing . |
| 20 | This favourite phrase of hers , meaning uninformed opinion , seemed to underline her contempt for the situation in which I had placed myself : the young , married woman , abdicating intellectual effort , doing nothing but washing and cleaning and caring for her baby . |
| 21 | A tall , broad-shouldered man whose looks seemed to epitomise her dream of the ideal man . |
| 22 | Twelfth-century English historians , writing during Eleanor 's own lifetime , were understandably cautious when they came to analyse her role in the revolt . |
| 23 | She was just about to step under the gushing spray when she realised she 'd left her sponge-bag in the other room . |
| 24 | She seemed to regard her life with the handsome doctor as a game with rules . |
| 25 | She 'd powdered her face in the lavatory on the train , examining her reflection in the mirror , thinking she was n't bad-looking . |
| 26 | With her temperament , surely she 'd have brought the roof in if she 'd discovered her lover in the arms of another woman ? |
| 27 | As she was about to pass the dark shape , something seemed to attach her skirt to the ground , and she had to stop . |
| 28 | She turned to focus her attention on the up-and-coming young band now swinging into their first number . |
| 29 | And the relieved mum vowed to keep her eye on the ‘ little devil ’ from now on . |
| 30 | At the door , Xanthe took her by both hands and held her so hard Miranda felt her nails cut into the palms and her eyes met hers with a pale blue flare , as clear as her father 's , and as unassailable , as she breathed out , holding Miranda by her side , and turned to face her father across the room . |