Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally the tram got underway and as it started to pull up at the end of the track by the foot of Duke Street Hill Carrie was already out of her seat and waiting on the platform at the rear of the vehicle , with Fred at her side gripping her arm for fear that she would fall off before it actually stopped . |
| 2 | Her glance searched his face for some clue as to what he meant , and when he failed to enlighten her she asked , ‘ This relationship , you mean ? ’ |
| 3 | Perhaps it can be traced even deeper in the past — we can go back to the time when the woman first attracted the man whose child she will later bear , or to the onset of her menstruation , when her body signalled its readiness for pregnancy . |
| 4 | The wife is the means through which a man transmits his lineage to his son ; she is often compared to a field in which her husband sows his seed for the continuation of his lineage . |
| 5 | In one such festival , her husband shows his love for her by presenting her with a new dress and himself attending to her hairdo and make up . |
| 6 | He jerked her case upright , tight-lipped , and put it by the door for her , but relaxed in exasperated pity as he watched her start to check her handbag for the third time . |
| 7 | One had the feeling that she was happy enough just to let her racket do her talking for her … |
| 8 | Anne listened quietly , her expression revealing her sympathy for Robyn . |
| 9 | In fact she went out of her way to show her support for the people who had contributed to it . |
| 10 | She had fought him off like a veritable wildcat when he 'd slung a few well-deserved insults at her , and then had had the gall to deny she had turned traitor , although her brother held his castle for Matilda , and God only knew what she , herself , had done for the Empress . |
| 11 | ‘ She told me her brother held his castle for the Empress , that he had sent her to Gloucester , that she was estranged from him . ’ |
| 12 | And as her pregnancy advances her need for insulin will gradually increase . |