Example sentences of "her [noun] have [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had got as far as pulling out her suitcase , which looked scruffier than ever now that her eyes had accustomed themselves to the comfortable luxury of Luke Hunter 's flat , and laying it open on the bed before something inside her rebelled . |
| 2 | Her footsteps had taken her to the car park — how , she could n't remember . |
| 3 | Not that her cousin 's health had relapsed , or anything like that , but her mood had communicated itself to the twins , who 'd been particularly fractious and difficult . |
| 4 | Her parents had sent her to the convent , and she begged them to let her become a Catholic after she 'd been there only a year . |
| 5 | Her parents had taken her to the doctor because of breathing problems and after being sent to hospital it was discovered L had extensive bruising across the buttocks . |
| 6 | There was a wealth of passion in him , but whether — perhaps because of her very limited experience in these matters — something of her shyness had communicated itself to him or not , he had seemed to temper his passion , for the moment , to suit hers . |
| 7 | She closed her book ; her papa had given it to her before she left for England and she blushed a little on remembering how short she had been with him when he had handed it over to her . |
| 8 | The Crown say her car was pushed into the water after her husband had battered her to death and locked her in the boot . |
| 9 | The woman went on to say that the social worker had written down what her husband had told her to because she was frightened of him , and because she was a young nit-wit from college no more capable of understanding the wily ways of men like her husband than she could fly . |
| 10 | ‘ My daughter and her husband have asked me to be his godfather as well as his grandfather , ’ he says . |
| 11 | Leith was n't embarrassed , just saddened that his love for her friend had brought him to this , as he revealed how , for fear of losing what little chance he had with Rosemary , he had kept quiet about his love when he 'd wanted to shout it from the rooftops . |
| 12 | She was no longer in the habit of being late : her life had schooled her to temporal accuracy , perhaps to being considerate . |
| 13 | At times the loneliness of her position has brought her to the edge of despair , so much so that she has made a number of suicide attempts , some more half-hearted than others . |
| 14 | It did have sentimental value ; her mother had given it to her for her twenty-first birthday . |
| 15 | Her mother had said nothing to her , of course , but every glance , every cup of tea was full of unspoken reproach . |
| 16 | She was a year old and her mother had wanted her to be fostered while she got herself sorted out . |
| 17 | And , while her mother had recommended her to Romano de Sciorto , she knew that he 'd run a thorough , ruthless check on her credentials through his London contacts . |
| 18 | Her mother has brought her to Boltwood three times before and the intervals between the illnesses are getting markedly longer . |
| 19 | Jane realised her desperation had led her to saying something foolish . |