Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] her [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had come to visit her sister for the third year running and , as on the three previous occasions , hoped to stay for a month . |
| 2 | Instead she concentrated on the completion , launch and shakedown of her new Mike Pockock-designed short-handed racing boat Q2 , a truly innovative yacht , custom-built and designed to win her class in the 1992 single-handed transatlantic race . |
| 3 | A new bride is expected to cover her head in the presence of her parents-in-law and older brothers-in-law . |
| 4 | Nicer is expected to take her chance in the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot next month , while Goodnight Kiss is earmarked for the Jersey Stakes . |
| 5 | Nicer is expected to take her chance in the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot next month , while Goodnight Kiss is earmarked for the Jersey Stakes . |
| 6 | Twice US Open champion , Tracy Austin , is expected to make her comeback at the event . |
| 7 | Twice US Open champion , Tracy Austin , is expected to make her comeback at the event . |
| 8 | Ms Donovan worked for a local authority and , during the course of disciplinary proceedings , was told that she would be permitted to terminate her employment on the last day of the year if she so wished . |
| 9 | His wife , Sonia Gandhi , was an Italian-born Christian who had made known her distaste for the political life imposed on her husband ; their son Rahul , 21 , and daughter Priyanka , 19 , were too young even to enter the Lok Sabha . |
| 10 | Donna felt again like the girl who had been made to spit her gum into the wastepaper basket . |
| 11 | However , there was nothing the elderly woman could have done to prevent her departure with the two children , who had been clearly delighted to be leaving their grandmother 's house . |
| 12 | To realise this , it is necessary , that Comrade Winnie Mandela is helped to find her way into the structures and discipline of the Mass Democratic Movement . |
| 13 | She did love Alexander , deeply and passionately , and suddenly it seemed quite natural to say so , in spite of the fact that it was only so recently that she had dared to look her love in the face . |
| 14 | She played in the women 's basketball and used to ride her bike around the university . |
| 15 | She had been granted absolution of her sins , but had died protesting her innocence to the last . |
| 16 | Mrs Clwyd — like Mr Livingstone — may well have difficulty gathering the nominations of 55 MPs needed to get her name on the ballot paper . |
| 17 | The Prince of Wales has offered to take her place at the service if necessary . |
| 18 | If she were Oliver , she could not have borne to look her father in the face . |
| 19 | He had called to ask her advice about the small dinner party he intended to give in the next week or so . |
| 20 | Certainly , she reflected at the end of a long , tiring but satisfying day , she could n't have found a job more calculated to keep her mind off the past . |
| 21 | Camilla , 45 , has always refused to discuss her friendship with the Prince . |
| 22 | The prisoner , a woman who had refused to confess her adultery to the Inquisitor , was brought out in chains and bound to a post set in the ground . |
| 23 | She had stopped putting her money in the machine with the silver crane . |
| 24 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |
| 25 | She had started to help her aunt with the never-ending sewing . |
| 26 | Susan Allen 's sister quite rightly asked why she was allowed to draw her gun from the armoury with such apparent ease . |
| 27 | Sharon recommended the contract should be awarded to G Tec without any competitive bid , there was a public outcry , ten days ago she was forced to change her recommendation to the state lottery commission and opt for a tender . |
| 28 | ‘ Are you a journalist ? ’ she queried abruptly , forced to raise her voice above the noise of the music . |
| 29 | Tessa would have liked to hide her face in the covers and cry . |
| 30 | It was good just to sit down , and she was tempted to rest her head against the partition and get some sleep . |