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 .
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