Example sentences of "her [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her sons kissed her on the forehead . |
| 2 | She felt his staff tremble , and she sucked with her lips to milk him with the expertise of a milkmaid . |
| 3 | And we would have seen how her eyes followed him to the door . |
| 4 | Her eyes beseeched him for the truth . |
| 5 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 6 | She turned away , shutting her eyes to adjust them to the darkness , and then with no further hesitation she was going down the rope hand over hand , her feet and knees checking at each knot . |
| 7 | Her obligations stared her in the face , but she did not flinch ! |
| 8 | She struggled to her feet to see him to the door . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This prevented her parents taking her from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend where she has been living . |
| 12 | When my young cousin 's pet budgie died , her parents buried it in the garden while she was asleep to avoid her being upset . |
| 13 | We talked a little till her cries took her into the little theatre . |
| 14 | They had always done their best to help Eva switch off during her breaks taking her to the Great Barrier Reef , Tropical Tablelands , coast , islands — wherever they could manage . |
| 15 | So I kept my mouth shut even as her hands lathered me in the colour of dirt . |
| 16 | In her effort to record the delight she derives from such details , evidently travelling as far afield as the US and Turkey , her outdoor work recalls both the practice of Marjorie Content 's work of 1928 in picking out the pattern of urban activity and its settings , and Lee Friedlander when focusing on the witty suggestibility of statues and lamp-posts , while her interiors remind me of the work of Margaret Watkins of 1919 . |