Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [verb] her [prep] the " 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 | He touched her breasts , briefly , as if her nakedness confirmed her as the victim . |
| 3 | Her half-sister took her to the police . |
| 4 | His next letter offered her marriage to save her from the dreadful future of stripping off that she would be subjected to otherwise . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It had been uppermost in her mind to ask about Marc , but her courage failed her at the last . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Her escort followed her into the sitting-room . |
| 12 | Only the pressure of his hand behind her head anchored her in the rushing of the storm . |
| 13 | Tracey laughed , and put his hand under her elbow to guide her into the cinema . |
| 14 | Then he put a hand on her elbow to guide her to the door . |
| 15 | The only other alternative would be to ask her father to collect her from the party , and , at twenty , that would be too embarrassing for words ! |
| 16 | Amidst the noise of children shouting , women calling across the alley , and dogs barking , Sarah seemed to hear her father condemning her for the way she had behaved these last months , and her misery grew . |
| 17 | She had heard tales of the sunshine , the flowers and bright colours of the upper world , but her father warned her of the perils that haunted the surface , in particular the giants that in those days walked the wilds of Dartmoor . |
| 18 | Her father accompanied her into the dining-room and though he made a pretence of eating , he barely touched the food on his plate . |
| 19 | Far from engineering the union , as has been widely suspected , her grandmother advised her about the difficulties of marrying into the royal family . |
| 20 | At the same time she knew that her gender isolated her from the ritualised socialising of other senior officers . |
| 21 | Well , she would have to go home and get her dad to run her to the rave . |
| 22 | Giles listened — or not — and then put a hand on her arm to steer her towards the door . |
| 23 | He smiled easily , taking her arm to steer her towards the door . |
| 24 | The same element of fear is portrayed in Carrie , as her mother threatens her with the power of God . |
| 25 | All she wanted was not to know again , so that she could stay a little child and never have to grow up and face the world without her mother to wake her in the mornings and teach her things and tell her stories and pass on all her wisdom about the world and men and how babies came and why the best any woman could hope for in this life was to be able to make one man happy . |
| 26 | Her mother called her from the kitchen , then appeared , wiping her hands upon her apron . |
| 27 | She pestered her mother to enter her in the Imperial Ballet school , but two impatient years passed before she was old enough to audition , in 1891 . |
| 28 | As an old woman , many years later , she asked her son to take her to the sea , which she had heard of but never seen . |
| 29 | Still holding her , he locked the door behind them , then released her wrist to take her by the shoulders and pin her against the wall . |