Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] her [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a stray recollection of a golliwog Maurice had given her for her fifth birthday undid the effect in an instant and she reached Swans ' Meadow with her eyes red and face blotchy from tears , only to find to her surprise that Ursula was in a similar condition . |
| 2 | As she gathered up the bedding and cushions she had hung out of the windows to air before the evening earth began to exhale dew , she wondered whether she should fetch out her best mantilla , the white lace her mother had given her for her first communion , which she never wore because it seemed so showy , and had n't worn even yesterday for the Easter Mass . |
| 3 | He remembered , suddenly , how she had looked when he had seen her after her first shock treatment , her lips bitten and bruised . |
| 4 | When her father formed the view that the car he and her mother had bought her for her eighteenth birthday was more roadworthy than Cara 's outwardly smart but inwardly not so clever vehicle , it was decided that they would use her regularly serviced Volkswagen Polo for the trip . |
| 5 | J.D. had told her on her last visit , when she had handed in the column she had just read , that there had been a large number of letters about Vesta 's contribution and he would be publishing some of them in the next issue . |
| 6 | There were candles and matches on a ledge just inside the front door where she had left them on her last visit , for Lydia was in fact a sufficiently practical person and not the ass she sometimes chose to appear . |
| 7 | The amniocentesis test had proved everything was normal and she had done her best to push into the background the treacherous thoughts about it which had assailed her on her first visit to the gynaecologist . |