Example sentences of "her [noun] [verb] her [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Apart from the shock that her GP saw her in the same light as his aged mother , Marie has never looked back .
2 Her GP referred her to a hospital in Watford , North London , where she underwent laser treatment to try and prevent the damage from getting any worse — but it did n't help .
3 She had drifted off , and had been fast asleep for some hours when the sound of someone 's keeping their finger pressed on her doorbell roused her from a deep sleep .
4 Her sons kissed her on the forehead .
5 Her investments provided her with an annual income of well over a million dollars , in addition to the trusts and investments left to her directly by her husband .
6 Lisa , her Mum gives her about every Saturday she gives her a tenner , but if she 's going out she gets a lot of money right .
7 He touched her breasts , briefly , as if her nakedness confirmed her as the victim .
8 Her legs brought her to a halt in front of a glass case containing a Leeds dinner-service .
9 Her half-sister took her to the police .
10 As she watched him striding up the beach she tried to consider what he had said but with his loss the full weight of her grief hit her with a thud that stopped her eyes , her ears , her brain .
11 His next letter offered her marriage to save her from the dreadful future of stripping off that she would be subjected to otherwise .
12 Her obligations stared her in the face , but she did not flinch !
13 I intended at first only to teach her needlework to qualify her for a genteel position , for you see she has a delicacy in her person that makes it a pity ever to put her to hard work , but she masters everything so fast that now I am desirous to have to divert and entertain me in my thoughtful hours .
14 Despairing of ever finding any use for her , her parents sold her to the military , a callous practice common in the commercially minded years of the mid-twenty-fourth century .
15 At the chilly boarding-school to which her parents sent her in the mistaken belief that she would be less lonely among girls of her own age , the prizes for mathematics — a subject which she did n't particularly care for but which came easily to her — were framed reproductions of the works of Italian painters .
16 But as her parents took her for a swim , she collapsed without warning and died .
17 This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living .
18 Her parents shut her in an upstairs room .
19 No matter what undercurrents had passed between them last night , it had been true enough that it was la Principessa who 'd sent her grandson to collect her at the Sala dell'Arte .
20 She was part of a team and content to be just that ; she did n't want to have to leave the protective colouring her job gave her in the safety of the laboratory .
21 It had been uppermost in her mind to ask about Marc , but her courage failed her at the last .
22 Mrs. O'Brien said that she believed what her husband told her about the company doing well and having good potential , but she was concerned for her son and felt that it was only for three weeks , and if it would do the trick , she would sign .
23 David looked down at her as she lay against the white pillows , pale and thinner than ever , and thought how much easier it would be to keep himself in check if her husband treated her with the gentleness she deserved .
24 Her husband left her for a job in the Arabian Gulf one year ago , and apart from regular maintenance , neither she nor the children have heard from him since .
25 When she was heavily pregnant with their third child , her husband threw her against a chest of drawers , then kicked her , and she was taken to hospital with three broken ribs .
26 As Carole 's hand felt gingerly for the light switch , her husband grabbed her round the waist and buried his face in her neck , making growling noises as he did so .
27 An inscription in the Bodleian copy of her Poems describes her as a widow .
28 We talked a little till her cries took her into the little theatre .
29 Her escort followed her into the sitting-room .
30 Only the pressure of his hand behind her head anchored her in the rushing of the storm .
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