Example sentences of "her [noun] [verb] by a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could n't have been very nice for her , thought Karelius , seeing her sister substituted by a woman who had obtained cheap success by such a blatant display of sexuality . |
| 2 | Defries stood up , the pain in her chest overwhelmed by a feeling that she recognized as panic . |
| 3 | Nephthys , her arms folded , leant on the jamb , her hair softened by a halo of light from the gatekeeper 's lamp . |
| 4 | In the latest incidents , an antiques dealer was attacked at Keele services on the M Six shortly after midnight and yesterday a woman driving along a quite country road in Chepstow had her car rammed by a gang wielding baseball bats . |
| 5 | He sets aside the question whether there is any important difference of principle between the case of a mother who suffers emotional injury watching her child hit by a car and a mother who suffers the same sort of injury seeing her child bloody in a hospital . |
| 6 | Her waist defined by a gold chain girdle , she was wearing Edward 's ring on a gold chain around her neck . |
| 7 | Clare levered the coins off the counter , and carried her cup out into the small enclosure , where she balanced it on an unsteady iron table , her feet cushioned by a carpet of litter . |
| 8 | Just outside the door , under the window , was a yellow painted bench on which the old woman sat , her feet concealed by a froth of nasturtiums . |
| 9 | Jed did n't know it , but Celia was listening on the other side of the curtain , her laughter stifled by a mouthful of number 42 . |
| 10 | She went on to catalogue a long history of disasters : from her mother dying when she was six years old , through to the latest traumas of seeing her cat killed by a car and being made redundant . |
| 11 | She absorbed every detail , her senses sharpened by a flood of adrenalin . |
| 12 | The ‘ alimony drone ’ — the leech-woman whose divorce gives her a meal ticket for life so that she can spend her days lolling by a pool peeling grapes while ex-hubby slaves twenty hours a day to earn enough to keep in her in luxury — does not exist here . |
| 13 | Then she paused , her attention caught by a canvas bag of knitting on one of the armchairs . |
| 14 | In the video ‘ Perfect X ’ K Dieroff balances precariously between ideals of beauty and self-mutilation as she takes a knife to her nose accompanied by a barrage of adjectives distilled from women 's magazines . |
| 15 | She was a good deal teased by children playing in the parks , according to one park-keeper who was sorry for her and tried to help her , and once had her bags snatched by a gang of youths . |
| 16 | When she saw her gesture performed by a sister who had been admiring and imitating her from earliest childhood , she felt a certain unease : the adult gesture did not fit an eleven-year-old child . |
| 17 | Girl thief snatches bag from pensioner A 62-year-old woman had her bag snatched by a girl thief in Stockton while she was taking a short cut between Hartington Road and Lawson Walk . |
| 18 | You 'll be better off there , believe — ’ She broke off and turned away , her face gripped by a sob . |