Example sentences of "her [noun sg] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | She begs her sister to go up to the top of the tower of the castle and look out for them , and keeps calling out to her , ‘ Anne , sister Anne , dost thou see nothing coming ? ’ |
2 | This mother has forced her tot to face up to the ordeal of withdrawal symptoms because she could n't control her own habit . |
3 | I was excitedly interested in her attempt to get back to the original Gautama , instead of the stereotyped figure of the Scriptures and Buddhist tradition , and still more thrilled by her insistence that the Buddha had a gospel , good news to the people of his contemporary India and to later generations . |
4 | On Oct. 8 the United Kingdom had entered the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) of the European monetary system of the European Communities ( EC ) , but at the subsequent European Council meeting in Rome Thatcher had been isolated in her opposition to an early move towards the second stage of economic and monetary union ( EMU ) and in the strength of her determination to hold out against the possible ultimate introduction of a single European currency [ see pp. 37782-73 ] . |
5 | Turning her head to look out of the window again , she felt her heart drumming with rage . |
6 | She closed her eyes and allowed her head to loll back against the pillow . |
7 | She deliberately turned her head to gaze out of the window once more . |
8 | It always took some time after her departure to get back into the old routine again … into the old pleasant routine . |
9 | What prompted her father to go out with the hand-cart she did n't know , because underneath it all he was a proud man . |
10 | But characteristically she got her way about going to art school , Beaton persuading her to get her father to come up to the academy and talk about the future of his precocious daughter . |
11 | Back at the 18th green the Princess had not yet been given her cue to come out onto the dais where the presentations were to be made . |
12 | It took all her strength to reach out for the receiver and raise it stiffly to her ear . |
13 | Although two years had passed since that nightmare day when Simon had crashed on the Grand Prix circuit in Australia , Ashley had always known that , sooner or later , it must be her destiny to meet up with the tall , broad-shouldered Portuguese again . |
14 | Then she rushed back towards the stairs , almost falling in her haste to get back to the ground floor . |
15 | Reaching out , Vitor touched a honey-coloured strand of hair which had tumbled from her topknot to curl down over the exposed nape of her neck . |
16 | Hari thrust her worries into the back of her mind and helped her mother to sit up against the pillows . |